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There's laughter
slicing through
the
palm fronds .

Drunken laughter,
riding shotgun
in the
night.
Life is rough, life is tough.
Life is complex but becomes simple when you don't compete.
Own a style. and see it to the end.
And devotion will bring you success.

Don't hide your potentials for fear of failure; please let the, fly.
And on wings as eagle your spirit, in confidence will forever soar high.
Be ready to take corrections though; it's sure worth the try.
Success comes when you endure.
I click on her face
and look at new words
and look at old words
and look at her world
I read her poems aloud
and break out in gooseflesh
because it's like I can feel
her next to me
whispering
my name
Hidden high
in my tree

I watch as morning
creates itself.

The simple miracle of light
erasing night.

From my topmost branches
I live the tree's life.

Look down upon the humans

wondering where & how
I have gone.

Through my window of leaves
sunlight stains my face.

The wind whispers
itself to me.

In a big blue ocean
of summer sky

I call to the kestrel
in Father Hopkins' tongue.

It shrugs off the words
remains untouched

by language

living in an other
dimension to me

hewn from
silence & stillness.

My heart longing to be
this wild...this free.

My uncle's voice
calling me...calling me

back to this all
too human world.

I leave my life as a tree
the wanting to be this bird

return to being
9 year old me.

My uncle's laughter
tossing my mop of curls.

"Thought we'd lost you there
...for a moment!"
Chasing the shadows on the walls of all Hallows
and which one is mine?
Time was,
I knew
but time has a way of changing day into night and the one that I choose may be the one that's not right.
So I will tread carefully among the nymphs that float free and hope in all Hallows that these shadows,
I see
dance only for me.
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Today,
I feel redeemed,
sorted,
sifted,
I have been screened.

I'm in the fold where I fold in two
being redeemed means
I do what I do.

Oh joy of joys all you girls and you boys
and the ploys of men can wait,
today
I am stately
not
a johnny come lately.

Today
I feel redeemed.
I spent my life
trying to please my family

It didn't work

I spent my life trying to
Please others


I spent my life......
Be yourself
I go outside to sit on the steps,
and fumble in my pocket for cigarettes.
I flip the top and start thinking
about her, and my great regrets.

I hate thinking so I begin to look
through my pockets for my matchbook
and my heart starts sinking
as I find the torch I used to use to cook.

It was my utmost favorite flame,
yet whom other than myself is to blame?
We were in love while drinking,
yet when we burned it was always the same.

The same days and,
the same ways;
the same daze and
the same, weighs
heavily
on my heart,
in my brain.

She loved me, yet I was unsure
of whether or not to endure
my ego shrinking,
and becoming impure.
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