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Growth Is Not Hitting Yourself With A Stick
I will try all methods including being struck before I strike
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Are You A 21st Century Man
“Boys” This is for you. “Rise up fallen fighters, Rise and take your stance again” I’m sorry. It’s been so long, But I’ve been gone and I was lost because I kept looking for someone who wasn’t there and as I searched and searched I got further and further away and I kept seeing the…
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Something’s Changed
I am possessed I allow the possession like a child allows a tantrum I am like a child but then… why rage against that isn’t one rage enough and so the monster gets fed and the monster isn’t the child So what is the monster Am I a rudderless ship in a landless sea more…
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Dreams
I dreamt of now beloved Dodge Coronets, I never could love The same way now. And of travelling And escaping, Of family and turmoil And barely made deadlines. I dreamt of sneaking by And of laughing And of needing to get somewhere. And I woke tired And renewed Closer to the Earth And to the…
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Love Behold
There’s no clamouring in my head, I want to hike and tend the garden and exhausted, settling in my bed breathe a breath of peace and freedom. In a world where neighbours care enough not to interfere when your family is protected but not by those who’s tool is fear. In a child’s…
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What if I’m right
I can be like the river I am like the river I have that available to me But who wants to be a river When you can be right? Certainly not me. We’ve had to make ourselves so small So we can understand what is not understandable. Zoom in. Zoom in. Zoom in. Smaller, smaller,…
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All around the Hamlet Mist shrouds green And pokes of roof Field unfurls to mountain and stream Runs over a billion stones The symphony of water And birdsong in the forgetting light And people spending time with one another. The Earth is not an elder It is not up to the Earth. The Earth is…
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The pump is primed It’s been some time Fertile and frantic Earth Fertile to give and frantic to live Every breath betrays The stillness of mist on mountains Even the animals Especially the animals Fight to survive Must fight to survive. And yet such sublime light And smell of gentle forest and hillside And lilacs…
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The Subtle Silk Of Life
It’s a particularly sensitive morning I, personally, am wavering Between obsessive, habitual guilt And parental concern for my punishing ways. Between answers and questions Questioning the rightness of my life I believe in questions, More than answers And so, this goes with the territory. And because there’s no question between life and death (as we…
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Growing Up
“I am a rock, I am an island… and a rock feels no pain and an island never cries” – Paul Simon When I became a man, I put away childish things – 1 Corinthians There is nothing to be ashamed of Your stacking of the rocks of your island has been a measure of…
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You Can’t Run Away From Yourself
A boy has never learned real trust the kind that grows down deep internal his father points to what he must and all of it, it is external
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The Power Of Humans
Two people loved each other It was clear and true between them They did not understand what hurt meant They did not know it was possible They lived, in love. There was a person who was afraid Why? We do not know And, for now, it doesn’t matter This person knows hurt is possible They…
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