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One particle has betrayed your wit
you are speeding into a single cell

Right below your memory is hollow
your past implodes despite your will
I left the house of the tempest brewing,
Spinning like a rod, spun into flame
And came upon the redwood forest,
Eternal, shouting out heavens name.

The sun was indifferent, the creek shuffled
Its lament, the birds fluted their dirge—
I was so small, in the red giants grove,
Yet, felt so beloved, my pain was purged.

And I warmly came to see again—
My eyes, through the needles drove,
What a trifling is ones fleeting mood,
How true, heroic, immortal is my love.
Smile sets a fire in my heart
Under star laden sky, no perfect a place
Zealous pursuit of your happiness, playing my part
In this beginning lap of lifelong race
I see your eyes and lose sight of the start
An English Sonnet to Mo Chroi



Mo Chroi, Mo Chroi. My dearest guide through life.

You keep this fool alive, safe and sound.

I regret, Mo Chroi, I have lived amongst such strife.

And to you my friend, it seems peace I have not found.

Your voice I do evoke, for I am lost.

I have strayed off the path and into the dark, cold night.

Wisdom and Intuition, both thrown aside and I have paid the highest cost.

Everything I do now, Mo Chroi, is now a futile fight.

Please come back to me, Mo Chroi, I feel like such a stranger.

Would you even recognize me now? It's been days, years.

Loneliness, it would seem, has let in danger.

As time goes by without you, Mo Chroi, I have no company but tears.

Mo Chroi, Mo Chroi. Happiness you're now bound.

Mo Chroi, Mo Chroi, my old friend re-found.
And she crossed the room
Hoping the baby
Would be there, and that
Maybe she got it

Wrong those months ago
And that the cot would
Be full again with
Sound and movement and

That baby chuckle
Noise that got her down;
But as she looked in
To the cot, the space

Yawned wide and dark black
And empty, and the
Only sound was the
Echo of that dumb

Silence eating at
Her heart, undoing
Her mind from the start.
POEM COMPOSED IN 2008.
No day is ever the same
Today was confusing
I've had to change my relationship status on Facebook
No big deal I hear you say
To "its complicated" for a few days
I've sprained my left wrist
It's just not fun you see
  The other hand isn't working out for me!
She begged me never to leave

I pleaded to the same degree

She said she's having my baby

I joined the ˈmiləˌterē

She claimed to be high risk

I exclaimed "We are better than this!"

She explained the reason: diabetic

I replied "Your excuses are emetic."

She mentioned money would help set her pace

I sent several hundreds to take my place

She disappeared without a trace

I, broken and weary, continued the race.
Part 10 of the Kutisha series "kukata tamaa"
This is the first and last poem I will write about Salina, the mother of my daughter.
© February 1st, 2013 by Timothy R Brown. All rights reserved
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