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To awaken Untethered, to plights of old As a new haven glimmers From a light spawned afar Upon the meekest soil I’ve christened as home Where the trees beckon: fellowship! And the currents sigh: romance To obtain Treasured affection Unwavering and untroubled To grieve With honest sorrow At the blistering surge of loss If only…
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Rekindled virtues Are strewn beyond my sight Scaling the height of day With a hearty chorus of redemption The winds harmonize Brisk, tame, and renewing Drawn to the hearth of peace In the high, blaring sun For now I simmer Among untroubled reveries Retaining their flavor Their faultless tranquility No harm can come At this…
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Summer days Brewed lovingly Lay far from a tired reach Summer days Seared so masterfully I long for the warmth you preach May fair-weather bloom Coddle my frame And subdue this cold refrain To chase away This jealous gloom So the youth may sprawl again Summer days Of majesty Roll away from the depths of…
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Panic’s foul cry Lashes far and wide Scaling the walls Of ruinous dreams Shrill words burn In flickering bundles Fraying stillness By the weakened seams Far off reveries Gleam all the same Soaked with misery And given to flame Floundering strength Pummels the mind Brimmed with worry From the earthly bind May Infinite screams coil…
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I cower in the clasp Of shallow and tired yearnings Worn urges That cleave the mind Swift and savagely The hours drain away Before my calloused fingertips Oppressed, by a wayward soul Paralyzed with trivial anguish Selfish wants Hail, blistering cold Skewering all empathy With frozen shards of dismay And so the ages dwindle Bereft…
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Uncoiled thoughts Jet past this timid clearing Far from the cooling, tranquil waft Of a lonely and docile wisp They are hopelessly ensnared By twining branch and shrub Where courage lay mangled Forever marred by rust and decay All roads curve In this endless, harrowing loop From the towering apex of spring To the lowly…
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Young heartache Tussles beneath my ribs A dull ache So weightless Fleeting and hollow Torment’s true mass Lies far, far beyond Lingering with angst Plotting a crude and vicious end Age shall erode My juvenile schemes My thoughtless horizons Maimed with passing time Broad seas of old Shall swiftly narrow And currents tamed Into shallow…
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Shorelines evaporate Enveloped by the treachery of waves I bid farewell To the warm, white sands Diverging steadily For an opportune morrow Wholeness takes root Beneath the fluttering sails Soaring across the tormented blue Unfazed by its endless span Binds are loosened By the brisk turmoil of wind My unfastening sorrows Fed to the merciless…
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I swallowed the horror Of black roving zeppelins Scarring the heavens With thick trails of peril All sound diminished In each second of muffled breath As the skies roared with flame Slathered in broad strokes Of murderous red Cool empathy descended Skewering my dormant spine Sending tidal waves of anguish Into my once lively Hearth…