Not What I Used To Be

All am I now
Is poetry

The man I used to be
Is now… no longer me

Not sure if I'm a captive
Nor sure if I've been set free

Nor do I quite see…
How it's now come to be

But all I am now…
And all I'll ever be

Is poetry

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Random Encounters

Random encounters…
Chance meetings
Life changers
Unexpected greetings

Interrupters of life
Uncaring guests
Random encounters
At their very best

Devices of change
Creators of strife
Random encounters are…
The spice of life

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Boredom

When I used to get bored
I would count my teeth

And I used to do that
without A lick of shame…

But now I do something far, far worse
Of which I’m truuuuly ashamed

For I’ve started giving….
Each tooth it’s own name

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Don't

Don’t let me know
When you’ve thought it over

Forget to tell me when
You’re ready to change back

Let it slip your mind
When you’re ready to surprise me

Because I don’t want to be Here…
when you want to come back

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Spring Soliloquy to Allergy

Powdered gold of pollen
Hanging lazily in the sun

Shaken loose from pungent blossoms
Gilding silken webs…newly spun

Tis the fairy dust
Of the newborn season

And the most likely reason
For all my sneezing’

…Spring…

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Believe In Magic

A good part of magic
Is in the believing
And the magic of believing
Is in itself quite magical as well

Believing there is no magic…
No wondrous illusion
Well, I believe, without any delusion
That that… would be tragic as hell

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White Rose

Lonely white rose…
Untended meadows

Deserted garden
Sigh in the wind

Quiet of surrender
Leavened with sorrow

Bees and pollen
Dance together again

Lonely white rose…
Petals pristine

Blooming so proudly
Unseen …yet serene

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New phase of my life

A reality work in progress…..

The first feeling of mortality
A numbed realization
An ever so slight feeling
Deep within my breast

That over months
Has been ever so slowly Growing…
my mind’s usual calm
Falling prey to unrest

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Mind Over Matter

The eye sees
What the mind
Perceives as so

The truth is belied
By what the mind
Seems to know

The falsehood encouraged
By what appearance
Deems to show

While all the while
the truth is hidden….by
What the mind thinks is…so

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Candle, pen, fools-cap and brandy

A candle… a pen
A glass of honeyed brandy
Close at hand

The taper…for which to see
The pen with which to write
And of the honeyed brandy?

Well that's just for me
To write through the nite, you see
And to make me feel just dandy

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