now

now: at this present time or moment now is all we have, Eckhart got that right, so why are we living with no end in sight/  now is the beginning, now is the end and there is nothing in between old friend glad to see you again and if it…

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halfway or no way

come here, come here so I can lean on you/ bleed on you/ need on you/ capture you leave me alone/ I can’t possibly be concerned with what’s going on with you/ when I have so much going on with me come here, come here/ I’m sorry I’m just so…

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burning would / storing could

would / past tense of will                                                       could / past tense of can would that you  supply my needs and attend to my every…

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curtain in your window

in this world there is so much to see and wonderful things to explore but you have to go out and look for them rarely do they come knocking at your door somehow they seem to elude you and I wondered why that was so but after knowing you for…

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poet

a poet writes a few more lines to ease his troubled mind about another lover gone down the drain/ he laughs and cries , writes and sighs about the things he can’t understand/ a briefcase holds my life, tells it all once or twice about what I’ve finished and what…

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alone can be nice

alone can be nice if the timing is right, to find out what you are all about time to retrace look back and embrace the things that make you who you are alone not by force, alone by choice, wandering through the pages of your life you look ahead through…

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friends are hard to find

friends are the people who take you as you are/ they don’t judge you and your words don’t leave scars/they don’t keep their feelings tucked away in a jar friends are hard to find friends are the people who forgive and forget/they don’t keep you down because you’ve slipped/they don’t…

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when the bottom / becomes the top

walking in this slop/because i let my defenses drop/now i have to forgive and move on/so the bottom can become the top like a seesaw life teeters on the spot between what’s good for you / and what’s  not/ so to keep this thing in balance often there are things…

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s y s d m s

saying your sorry doesn’t mean shit,  you’ve been saying it a long time and it’s time to quit, so either  do something about it or don’t say a word ,                        “cause we are tired of hearing sorry for things…

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everyman

i try to step into someone else’s shoes and look from their perspective / i write especially for those who never looked into verse or considered it as something they might find interesting……………….give it a shot and write down things that affect you……………………it  will change you ———————————————————————————————–for everyman / my…

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Silverback

fear of leaving mother’s side slipped away a little each day venturing, i became aware there are many things to see and do i was forever running from playmate to playmate/tree to tree relationships formed and blossomed/ friends came and went however, intimate love eluded me   sitting on an…

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brothers 4 ben an jon

we walk different roads       crossing different streets      encountering  different faces                   better to share than to stare          easier to judge than to understand                    …

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come down from the tree queen

the queen without a crown, packed her bags and headed out of town, seems no one was being attentive to her needs so the dogs took another nap, the old man took a crap and things settled into a minor key chorus somewhere over the rainbow is a guy fishing…

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wheel of time

the wheel of time will change you mind and if it doesn’t then something is wrong                   we can’t be right about everything and we learn as we go and learn as we grow              i wish…

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prison of the mind

so far they can’t imprison you for what you think then again you may already be shackled by your own beliefs a dream: as i peer through the bars i see keys hanging on a nail just outside the cell springing to my feet the first steps send me falling…

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guide

give me your hand so you won’t get lost give me your time we will share the cost in return, I will open the door to a place you have never been before your heart

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tulips

tulips watch vain attempts to convey love through words describe the joy of witnessing birth/ touching someone without touching convey that moment when you replaced the fear of love with the fear of denying it love is all we have, more than we need I look in your face, hoping…

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crackerjacks

♥ funny thing happened on the way to your heart holding you became easier……………………………….when I let go loving you became natural………………………………….when I learned to love myself helping you became the goal…………………………….instead of always thinking about myself giving became the objective………………………………letting me receive on the way to your heart a wonderful…

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I’m hear for you/ for brian

it was beyond my capacity as a child to question the reason why my parents were deaf and I could hear, it just was I became the recorder and transmitter, covering things I couldn’t understand and things I had never experienced and didn’t have a clue about I was given…

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tolle has toes

we never get any better than human……………….ttucro i should be this/ why aren’t i that    /   why do i continue  to walk down these overgrown trails………………….. the voices say, yes i hear voices, unfortunately most of the time they are mine, you will encounter the same things over…

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replica

replica/noun/an exact copy/one on a similar scale my Father was a real piece of work i bashed Him for years until some of the pain “He” caused became the pain i caused/ time and life changed that perspective   owning things you don’t want sucks but i can’t change what…

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cows chewing gum

sometimes I balk at ideas initially without considering the information presented{I bet no one else does that}, commonly known as contempt prior to investigation i stumbled onto the aforementioned concept by accident and i will attempt to explain it now i am a chewer, no i won’t grab your shoe…

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old bones laid to rest

angels we have heard on high/screaming at the top of their lungs/stop! please stop!      we pay them little attention and the toy drummer keeps the beat boom, boom, boom, boom we stumble and fall, stumble and fall/the arms are tired, the knees bloody/when there are no more tears…

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red book

i think it’s funny how people who called themselves artists often go out of their way to be noticed personally dress hair lack of clothing enough clothing for an entire season if that’s you, ok and you probably could give a damn about what I think but you should be…

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home schooled

it’s interesting as i grow older and wider, i dare not say wiser, i am able to look at circumstances , people and places without immediately passing judgment or assigning blame they simply are what they are or were what they were as we take on the roles our parents…

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first love

no Maggie it wasn’t you, although I thought it was I thought about your sparkling smile amplified by the mile of wire you had in your mouth that inflicted so much pain and torture when I tried to kiss you as best as a 12 year old knows how your…

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perched in a falling tree

yeah, i know by now it’s easy to see from your perspective but when your in it sometimes the shift is so gradual that only afterward can you see how absurd the situation was the shift has become obvious and much as i tried to pass it off as foundation…

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