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A Poet’s Diary #23: Multisyllabic Academic
You are the department of big words and bigger beliefs.one-track minds led astray by allegory of history.the shadow of the core,The Meaning of the gesture, every thought a syllabus in your ancient church of woe.The flavor of exodus dust is… Continue reading
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A Poet’s Diary #18: Who Waits Longer?
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. G. K. Chesterton T- I have waited a long time to talk to you, Muse, I will wait longer if I must. The hand I held ten… Continue reading
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A Poet’s Diary #15: Poetic Distance
With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. John Milton T, It is scary when poets meet on the field. Words are always more than they seem and they are often hardly enough.… Continue reading
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A Poet’s Diary #14: The Worth of Absolution
Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another’s being mingle:—Why not I with thine? Percy Bysshe Shelley L, I hesitate to answer fully. Please take these words and understand their meaning. -T Every… Continue reading
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A Poet’s Diary #12: Cursed Objects
L- Your last message was a nice surprise, and I appreciate the compliment. Seasonal survival is in the eye of the beholder, though, as this project winds down I am planning to travel to a new studio on the coast… Continue reading
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A Poet’s Diary #9: Civility
We only Part to meet again. -John Gay T, The days behind and before us weigh heavier than ever. I can see the swell of the waves and yearn to see them breaking. Our renewed connection could never be anything… Continue reading
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A Poet’s Diary #6: Bitten Tongues
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination. -John Keats T,In the sound I find the secondslasting like words to windI bite my tongue from yelling outShe is the mind and… Continue reading
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