First
You will not be found online today
when sunbreak reveals the horizon.
So while I still smell of sleep and
wonder how the day will begin,
I seek a smile on my freshly woken face
as I pull up a sweet memory of you
and find that greeting to start my day.
`
poem by Frederick Kesner
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First (v2)
You will not be found online today,
when sunbreak reveals the horizon.
So while I still smell of sleep
wondering how the day will begin,
seeking a smile on my freshly woken face,
pulling up a sweet memory of you
I find this greeting to start my day.
`
poem by Frederick Kesner
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Sonamphony
I am never without Ludwig
that mess of tangled hair
accompanying me with his
fifth, ninth, and moonlight
in my now unplugged ears
stereo muted, no longer
blaring at my need to hear
thousands of times before
now lilts indelibly sealed
o but he moves me still
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New Life
`
my reasons have changed
transformed along with my circumstances
defined by those I have allowed into my life
shaping me
releasing me
and giving my days their tints and shades
now I to open up my jugular
and allow hatchets to fall
or portly women to sing.
`
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Ludwig
I am never without Ludwig
that mess of tangled hair
accompanying me with his
fifth, ninth, and moonlight
in my now unplugged ears
stereo muted, no longer
blaring at my need to hear
thousands of times before
now lilts indelibly sealed
o but he moves me still
`
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Leaves In The Wind
the upside of my underside
molly-coddling your neck
through a bleakly lined morning
sky stirs my now tepid faith
always in the shadows
concealing furtive glances,
tensed shoulder blades
that find feet shuffling
against iron curtains that
block the rays of the sun
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Release
`
auction your ciphers
whether cryptic or plain;
express your disdain,
princes and paupers,
your joys and your pains
upload them web-wide,
your caustic protuberance;
spread digital conflagration
let relentless talons purge
the sting of sulfur on brimstone
`
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Truth Relative
Secrets are secret
Truth cannot expound
Everything is vanity
No comfort to be found
Truth is relative
or so it is, they say
Life for us is short
no time to dry the hay
What Truth will illumine
Lies would then conceal
with ebony tusks uncover
wounds that would not heal
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Pot Plants
`
hapless indulgence
animated silences
quiver
hankered imagination
ambiguous synapses
quibble
each way you turn
each thought you churn
new lessons learn
potted flower plants
line your driveway
mind you don't crush them
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Promises
`
Data storage now keeps forgotten memories;
images and words from jubilant revelries.
The clock is a blur of digits these days
and nothing is clear but tomorrow's maze.
So off we go to bury unwitnessed sunsets;
replacing our garden beds with plastic regrets.
`
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