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      The Beast is Stirring

      Pressure deep in the the abyss of my treacherous soulUnrelenting as if it want to find what little light that leftTender touches or sweet kisses is not in my DNAYet you pushSoftly at first,intensify the pressureI'll swallow  back the...

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      Mount Kenya

      This dawnlight spills on grasslands wide and bare,While elephants move slow through morning haze,Mount Kenya stands in silent, stony praise—A god of stone, unmoved by human care.My thoughts, like dust, were drifting in the air,No compass fixed, no voice...

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      Pugilist Theory

      Slipping on a banana peel total disgrace  Southbound rocket is drifting out at sea Tragedy crawling across his wicked face Cruel intentions for those who disagree   Violent whispers in a radioactive breeze  Digital parasites corrupt a fragile mind Pigheaded fascist spreading his disease Day of the...

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      • Interesting theory. It is all empires fall. They have to be built up to crumble. Nice

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Adira. So glad you enjoyed the read my friend. Cool motto. Appreciate you.

        Damian

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Patricia. So glad you enjoyed the write my friend. Love that song. Simon & Garfunkel are awesome, Paul Simon is a brilliant lyricist and songwriter. I love ” I Am A Rock.” Appreciate you.

        Damian

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      Anniversary

      Every year, it comes  unbeknownst  that quiet hour of passing  that date awaiting etching to  marble memory  and I  oblivious to finality  marching, marching, marching,  my matters to attend  I do not bend  to notice  nor pause consideration  to...

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      • It doesn’t look very happy, does it? LOL
        Thanks for reading, Peter!

      • I can make it happy for you….lol

      • As it may be a memorial for the passing of someone, it holds a momento mori!

        • It’s really contemplating the day of your death in advance… the anniversary to come that only others will remember. There’s a date and an hour that you live through every year which will one day be your very last moment.

          • I don’t know why your reply reminds me of a Nickelback’s clip video. Haha
            Yes, totally true!

      • That would be the day I follow suit… I don’t remember I have read this… you’re hiding things from me…mmmmm

      • Actually, I’m a fan of Emily Dickenson, and this is inspired by her work

      • Dear Poetess 🌿

        One would be hard-pressed to come upon a more impacting or meaningfully deep poem, rendered as thoughtfully, intelligently, and distinctly in Freestyle form, in homage to that enigmatic moment, individually awaiting us all.
        The entirety of this piece grabbed and held tightly; yet, the following lines of verse struck and admonished – just a bit deeper:

        “I do not bend
        to notice
        nor pause consideration
        to the end ” (heed we do well to prepare)

        Literally everything’s done masterfully to sheer perfection, Ma’am: Introduction photo and title, presentation, grammar, emotive power, sombre ambience, line-breaks, enjambment, vivid metaphor, and solemn imagery … everything, spot-on.

        Again, I bow in reverence, gratitude, and respect for showing us how it’s done! ⁓ Richard🌾

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        Soapbox: Here’s my 2¢ worth – dragged from dusty archives.

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        ON LIFE † ON DEATH

        From the unknown we come to the unknown we return.
        we’re but brilliant flashes in the infinitely ethereal⁓*

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        THE SUN….
        setting at one point rises at another;
        every moment of its motion is a setting and a rising.

        For, as the sun rises in its setting and sets in its rising
        … so is Life~so is Death …

        We die when we are born and are born when we die.

        Death~Sunrise … Sunset~Birth

        ALL THESE….
        are but the thoughts~dreams~fears of the
        … Blind and Sleeping …

        For, all Life is a death beginning and all Death is
        Life continuing, neither separate from the other.

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        In contemplation to the “impossibility” of coming from nowhere and going to nowhere, with no source and no destination.
        This realization can bring great comfort from the loss of those who have left us, “that” there has
        to be an eternal somewhere for Them … for Us.

        Richard W. Jenkins
        ©2007

        • As always, I just want to slobber all over you, Richard. Can you seriously make me throb any harder? My God. The last time anyone complimented my poems this emphatically, I screwed him in his classroom after my exam… no condom and no lock on the door. Yes, we were interrupted. Ask me if I gave a shit.

          So, professor… how long before your next class?

          xoxo

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      Believe

      If variety is the spice of life, my sobriety isequivalent to rolling seven on a cubic dice. Standing tall like united lice on laboratory prisoned mice will sooth the soul and mute the sighs. Goodbyes are poor receptions in...

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