The perils of being an optimist
Is bearing more disappointment
The insufferable pregnant pause
Between reality and expectations
Is only a This World problem
Pregnant pause
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Endless stream
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Dived into the murky waters
Held your ankles pushed you out
Before me float downstream
Clear pools channel into the sea
While lying languishing in
A trail of disturbed waters
Forget-me-nots floating
Sediment settling
Ebbs and eddies circling around
Waiting for the tide
To wash me down.
Lady Agape
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I ought to tell you
I am not in love
And never was
Not what it seems
You ought to know
Since you proposed
It is more than that.
– MM
Streams ne’er ceasing
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Come cling to me like mist scented trees
Thou scattered droplets absorbed, restored
Fount o’er leaf tips to forest floor
Endlessly nourished ‘fore scorching breeze
Coal River Valley
cold dark hard stone / compressed ages / crazy love / diamond shine.
Piled dry parched / under barren sky / delinquint spark rests / beside ignite.
Illuminable reside / rest surrender / hide.
Fuel pile high / heavy dry / coerce embers / elated fly.
Buried ash Wednesday / live breathe / fanned funneled / exalted hearth high.
Relentless Westerly / battered antique bones / breathe weary / rugged stone hill.
Shines its testament / from stain glass sill / to living room throne / cast iron will.
Count the stars of heaven 