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Sonnet XVIII – Fear Not the Poet

Fear not the poet’s cryptic form or rhyme.

clarity, obfuscation, Poetry, Prose, risk, unknown

a lot of nerve – #SoCS

Different is good

abstract, appreciation, intent, Jackson Pollock, Millet, painting, Poetry, Prose, Purpose, realism, writing

Correlation?

graphs mean nothing now.

#haikai, #tanka, causation, charts, correlation, data, excel, formula error, graphs, haiku, manipulated, Poetry

survivor

PTSD / doesn’t happen to me / that’s for soldiers / and survivors of abuse

dissociative, dreams, Freedom, keys, locks, Poetry, process, PTSD, rilke, survivor

balance

so I seek the balance point
/ to speak my truth – and listen

#haikai, #tanka, anger, balance, listen, Poetry, Self, speak, truth

elusive

oh, I know they are out there somewhere…

#poetry, elusive, Poetry, Words

still life in motion

clearly the work of a child, not a master painter.

adults, angles, cezanne, children, harvard art museum, multiple perspectives, perspective, Poetry, post-impressionism, real life, realism, still life, still life with commode, viewpoint

semi ; colon

today I find myself on pause; at least I have been found.

climb, independent, maslow, pause, period, Poetry, punctuation, self-actualization, semicolon, silence, sound

Sonnet I – I chose to walk

The shoes, while fitting poorly, won me praise, but winning praise becomes a daily chore

#sonnet, bare, choice, choose, feet, flight, fly, Poetry, shoes, walk

Et lux

lux perpetua luceat eis

darkness, effort, et lux perpetua, light, lux, Poetry, responsibility, write

changing aunt jemima

sometimes changes /
seem random /
and without purpose. /.
those are the hardest to make. Truly.

APA, change, Chicago Manual of Style, fonts, habits, MLA, muscle memory, period, Poetry, point, Purpose, spaces, typing

Nailing the Nailer

Nail me. I’ll nail it.

#napowrimo, Humanity, learning, nail, Poetry, Pride, Purpose, right, selfishness, SoCS, think

Firefly

I’ll dream it’s somehow magic
– not let science steal my joy

#firefly, #haikai, #tanka, magic, mood, Poetry, science

miscommunicado

crossed wires start fires

apologize, communication, fires, Love, misunderstanding, Poetry

lost and found

peace can still be found but you have to look for it.

haiku, lost and found, Poetry

beyond the blue

It’s good to get rid of the darkness.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, blue, draft, Life, Poetry, sad

Hevel

sometimes poetry requires digging.

#picandawordchallenge, easy, ecclesiastes, hard, nothing new under the sun, Poetry, think, work

validated

Today I live and stand in my own story.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, choice, hope, Life, Love, Poetry, recovery

dividing by zero

sometimes it helps to think a clever theorem was at work

#DIV/0!, addition, divide by zero, division, excel, fathers, math, pi, Poetry, presence, spreadsheet, subtraction, undefined, zero

what the hell

speechless wonder at the brutality of it all.

approval, bigotry, brutality, George Floyd, indignation, Poetry, police, privilege, Racism, sadness, tolerance

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