Kindness
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mosaic
partnersof all kindsjourney with you not at you,not to you,not out of a sense.of.duty. “in it to win it”a clumsy cliché, but apropos. individual experiences;different. sometimes as disparate as two people can be – or four, eight, ten, thirteen. doesn’t meanitcan’t.be.done. together. the shared experience – a complex mosaic all those little pieceseventually come togetherinto…
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downstream – #SoCS
water carries life and death at once.
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blur
My eleven-year-old mind is often a blur, but some things are crystal clear.
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family ties
some days I lose my mind and they lose theirs, but mostly – we lose our hearts.
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stop the world
dona nobis pacem
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Social Media Diplomacy
We yell from both sides of the room ~ and only hear what echoes back ~ a world that’s only white or black
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Sonnet VII – Still Walking
Today I wear the shoes I chose myself; Turns out that flight is only for a time.
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Feeling the Feels
Feelings are foreign to me; at least feelings over which I don’t have some sort of control.
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the poet’s irony
I try to write of love ~ but words ne’er flow
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Sleeper, Awake.
I am currently calling us “Awake Ben” and “Sleeping Ben”, which (because I’m so clever, you know) works on a number of levels, both literally and figuratively.
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defying atrophy
look back at writings / thoughts of yore / and wonder where my / mind went.
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should be sleeping
though I really should be sleeping ~ leaking mind just keeps on seeping
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lighthouse
Darkness – Not a thing ~ Merely an absence of light ~ Shine more brightly, friends.
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The Rainbow Sonnets – IV, V, & VI
Then Clarity arrived at once, so Fast / Paint with the Rainbow, Life will come at last.
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gravity
physics’ laws apply / beyond the world / of weight and mass
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reaching
progeny / feeling the pressure
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dangerous tools
she wants her hands upon the tool / the danger that it holds compels
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Sonnet II – hope’s lament
I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed
