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    Nothing Breaks This One

    Rewriting Memory   I’ve said it many times, over, and over again Guilt is a needless load to carry forever The solution comes in asking for forgiveness Or you else can’t go on happily with new endeavors   And though it’s all in the past you...

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    expelled

    expelleddwindling in the nether regiona realm of hell in which I burn hoping to riseI call out give me voiceIn raptured silence do pleadMy need is greatsickened hope, my grievous errora platform to jump fromsending my words...careeningat light speed through...

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    Whisky

    I wish I was your bottle of whiskySo that being a heavy drinker you areYou would consume me every time She says she wants to be consumedBut I dare not drink her Because I am already doomedMaybe she was intrigued by...

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    redzone posted in the group National Poetry Month

    A KISS #4

    “Let’s not speak falsely now
    the hour is getting late.”
    (Song/poem ‘Along The Watch Tower’, written and sung
    by Bob Dylan. But in this case think/imagine this song
    sung/played by Jimi Hendrix, the Live Version)

    “Excuse me while I kiss the sky”
    -Jimi Hendrix, ‘Purple Haze’

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    Willow posted in the group National Poetry Month

    Unstable Faultlines and Explosive Boots

    I saw him in the back of the room
    a wide space between him and the crowd
    no one acknowledged his presence
    he was…a non-entity
    it was a self-imposed exile
    however unintended

    I wanted to feel sorry for him
    sipping his drink in silence
    amidst all the gaiety and laughter
    but I’d felt the brunt…Read More

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    • Such arrogance deserves to be burnt, not fading away, but excised. It’s a strange contradiction, our compassion and empathy, as it sometimes allows such arrogance to exist. It’s not that we shouldn’t have empathy/compassion, we should. But it’s in coming to understand how and when to apply it. I think it’s part of our human journey, our evolving…Read More

      • Your mind might go to strange places but so does mine. They may not be the same places but that’s one of the things I love about poetry…the various ways it translates and thoughts it provokes. Thank you, Curt

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