By: Lamont Palmer
Sky makes the scene believable.
Twice the proportions, twice the ice,
At 500 ft, the symmetry
Is the god of piercing blue,
The deity of lonesome liquid,
Pure white and yet sad color
In the cold, in the heart
Of the glacier, and its eyes.
The giant is a testament,
(as giants go: O Goliath)
To be tumbled, to be relieved
Of air in the ice ridden lungs,
Of this temporary hugeness:
A ship of David’s wonder
Who they truly are.
The water, a life outside of pain,
Remembering where a cell rose,
Constant, from one bay to the next,
From one detached chunk on its way
To miracles, to sea homes
Lost in multiple vastness,
In vestibules of cold. Two worlds
Joined under one frozen
Identity; chunks of personality.
(The ones in the know think of
Europa; how close we are, how
Solid the frigid possibilities.)
It is everything
Movable, immovable
And indifference to motion,
Meropia in the moment,
A prayer to see, touching
What is wide but, too, beyond it.
And where are the ones not here?
Alive in the vision:
Eternity as a painting: art to imbibe
Lamont Palmer
Daily Quote: “If there are so many seekers, why are there so few finders?”
-- Eckhart Tolle
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My soul, damp at the staircase of your porch
Clings, clings to your scent.
I swam, far, so far,
To get to you.
It’s afternoon.
The wind grows thick.
The birds scoop through the sky.
And after moments of wincing at the sky,
The tip of my soul makes a sound.
And the only elements on Earth who understand
Are the birds and the sky.
At night, before morning peaks out her head
Thousands of fireflies twirl around my heart
Bringing warmth and light to it,
As an attempt to revive it.
If you’re so lonely
If you’re so troubled
Look for me.
She doesn’t see me.
Greiby Medina
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By: Gray and Mars
Sideways picture frames,
She looks at me, doesn’t know my name.
I say, “It’s me.”
She says, “Who would that be?”
& mutters a soliloquy.
She points at the glass to clear her throat,
As I take off my woolen coat,
& pull up a wooden chair,
& look at her ancient hair.
I tell her that I’m doing good,
& Mona’d come out if she could.
& she points and looks at the sky,
& says a scarecrow just passed by,
& I didn’t know what to do,
I’m just a boy she knew.
The room became so tense
She said things that made no sense.
About a man with a broom and a flute,
Who looked real good in a suit.
& I asked her which man,
& she said it was the one
Who fades into the evening sun.
I saw Death at the bedroom door
& fell to the wooden floor,
“Do you remember anything?
The morning’s when you would sing,
In the garden with the sun,
& laugh with everyone?”
(This dream that we’re in,
Is stuck in a coffin,
It’s not one that we choose,
But it’s just the one we’re use to).
& she said, “Who are you?”
“Mama, I’m the boy you knew.”
Gray and Mars
Daily Quote: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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By: Robert Anderson
while this bares
in a tone of blue-gray it
lingers of nothing more than
silence
it's emotionless and
embraces me within the absence of my muse
a secluded whim of
dispassion slays my artistic
alchemy
oh
i mourn
between each despairing breath
and readily surrender my heart
for the price
of ullage
drowning, drowning...
i curse the heaven's for such an unfathomable
curiosity!
where are the days that have
never dreamed of quarreling with my soul--
when life bequeathed to me a beauty
of such imaginings?
how i cry out
to part with my seducing gift but,
through chicanery, my voice perfectly fails.
i am
utterly
dead.
Robert Anderson
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By: Fergus Carty
Try to place a definition on love,
It disappears like water in the sand.
Your ideas fade, eclipsed by time,
All your words are scattered in the wind.
Is love, like a diamond, forever?
Found rough and whole then cut, polished, set.
The style and setting the choice of fashion.
Ever reduced until what is left?
So what about non-tarnishable gold?
Those plain twin gifted bands we choose,
To bind together or bonds that cut
Or over time wear thin and that thing lose.
What is a thing? Should we define it and
Label it to know its mass and motion?
When we could live in the experience?
Or is this too romantic a notion?
Fergus Carty
Daily Quote: “...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
-- Greg Anderson
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By: Reinz Acasio
A sudden outburst of laughter
Has suffused along the corner
Everyone is making
A crayon of action
Pouring out their emotion.
Furtively, I look at them
They are wearing their smile
I remain silent,
Freely sit at quiescent
And begin to scrawl
The coldness of my emotion
But I stop and marvel
To the deafening furor
That passes through the invisible door
I follow it with my sight
And I discover outside
The bareness of the fuscous night.
The mirth has endured
I hear the din of rapture
But it diminishes so fast
Like a flick of a storm
A pensive stillness is born.
Beyond the dark of a lonely night
A diminutive yet witty lady
Has captured my sight
Commendable as she has come
The sun whispers to her moon
It unravels my fears
While listening in front of her
Injecting words of wisdom
It pricks my heart
I feel the hotness of my tears
Boiling my own existence
My loneliness disappears!
Reinz Acasio
Daily Quote: There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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By: Esteban Arellano
When flowers were
in full bloom,
I first saw you.
You were more beautiful
than any blossom
in any garden,
in any city,
in any state,
in any continent,
in any planet,
you were more beautiful __
When wildflowers sweetened
the bee laden days,
and sudden northern winds
blew those strange Saturdays
into so many lost Sundays,
I danced like a dervish
whirling, whirling
till flames burned
above my head -
And though you laid with me,
your heart walked
down a narrow road
to a temple in the east
never to return,
and I denied the ghost,
lost myself -
And in the evening light,
I sat in a pasture
with a thousand bluebells
and waited for the stars,
and in the night
the cosmos dark daggers
shredded my heart,
and I hung naked
on the North Star
and wept -
Still,
I thought,
You were more beautiful
than any blossom
in any garden,
in any city,
in any state,
in any continent,
in any planet,
you were more beautiful__
Esteban Arellano
Daily Quote: Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anaïs Nin
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By: Daniel Ames
beyond the Elysian Fields
in a swath of scrub oak and gravel
in the distance a small farmhouse
without windows or a door
a hawk flies overhead with a red tail
and an eye for what's beyond
this is where you and I now stand
the railroad ties soaked in creosote
black and fissured
the ghosts of tall weeds
are carried along by the wind
the silence presses on our temples
the heat smothers our skin
you and I and the glassy scent of gasoline
there may have been plans
to keep laying track
we can almost make out the linear banks
of earth ahead
a heat wave shimmers
beyond the broken landscape
where you and I try to see
you turn and look back
I was waiting for you to do it
I would have been disappointed if you hadn't
because then the years along the way
would have tendrils
viscous remnants of you and I
you turn back to the front
and as your gaze passes me
I wonder if you look at me
or if you continue to swivel
without interruption or contemplation
toward the precipice ahead
neither you nor I comprehend
at long last the faint smile comes
and I am thrilled and reassured
I take your hand and your calm acceptance
like a thousand times before
the hawk is gone and a young child
comes out of the farmhouse
she hears the train that is you and I
Daniel Ames
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Daily Quote: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view".
- Harper Lee
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By: Pierce Hacking
I walk these cracked streets under city lights.
I feel myself fading in the black night.
I see sirens wailing and fires burning.
I see the junkies with their heads turning.
In these streets I see the souls of the dead.
I hear their thoughts whispering in my head.
I have my life to live if I so choose.
It’s my life to win or my life to lose.
I’m not sure where I can turn to these days.
Will I forever be trapped in this haze?
I want to be free from this captive state.
Maybe one day I will set my life straight.
Maybe I won’t be trapped here after all.
With God by my side I’ll escape these walls.
Pierce Hacking
Catharsis of Pierce
Daily Quote: “In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.”
-- Suze Orman
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By: M. J. Duggan
The clever fox will run with the breeze
orange coloured coat and hay coloured eyes,
through the slick streams and tumbling trees
run from the pounding dog pack cry.
The barking fades and the clever fox hides
lurid dogs convey the starry landscape,
streched out in the summer's sunrise
the clever fox's cunning escape.
No blooding for an adolescent
he saved himself and kept his tail,
rolling in cowpat breaking up his scent
sprinting away from those red coats from hell.
M. J. Duggan
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Daily Quote: A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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