Tag: Poetry

Real

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Don’t let the memory slip from your grip

What makes all this real.

Remember your humble rock bottom.

Remember the glory in the dawn of the world.

Remember their generous, peaceful smile.

Keep your head down.

Eyes on the target.

One foot at a time.

Until we reach the light.

Should you fall, alight your shirt.

Let it shine the way for those to come.

7.9.2024

Grasp

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in the wake of the white misty day in the woods,

there’s an eternally soft and chilling fog,

clouding your vision no further than a foot ahead of you.

let go of your fear; let your imagination run amok.

hold your heart steady, like holding a koala’s bottom.

you will come back alright. just keep holding them.

And open your eyes, see this wonder, rejoice!

7.7.2024

Loyal

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clutching a grain of sand in my fist,

I held it in my heart.

ocean wave of sorrow swarmed

because I knew I had a far way to go to get there.

I want to give, to bring laughter, and satisfaction,

but it’s ocean distance away, far longer than the reach of my arms.

vengeful against disadvantage, I sense fire brewing in my eyes.

Get me there. I command my bare hands and feet.

Our only destiny is to succeed.

7.4.2024

Longing

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Fortunately – or unfortunately –

I glimpsed over at the nocturnal green cover

William Matthews’s poetry book.

The flash of lazy summer sky

over the three-story apartment in Brookline

zooming by like a blurry window scene in an Amtrak car.

The sweet warmth – that somehow imbued under my skin

from the hollow cool atmosphere above –

radiated in waves, like softly swinging hammock

with a glass of wine and a love song from radio head.

I blinked. I stared ahead towards what was to come.

Warmth – I chose to believe what I felt in my heart.

The glowing red yolk over the horizon –

graciously engulfing all my worries and sadness –

gloriously radiating, unapologetically, childishly, happily.

my arms are wide open without the usual guard

for I chose to live once more again.

6.24.2024