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90 · Dec 2017
Strive
Robert C Ellis Dec 2017
The thunder of the Undone
Strikes flint against kerosene soaked lives
REVIVE
The strive that counter balances the heartbeat
****** my lethargic hands into the heat
Birds are the ability for chemistry to seek
Weather is meat slung from the bone
Writhing language lashed against teeth
Beat this misspent life to stone

Darwin carts the wind from the eaves
Those Dark, bent constellations we hone
Into the annals of the horizon; our keep
Is where Time and Gravity are sewn

She is the solar reign
Hers is the birth and the death
Of fantasy, religion, and acclaim
My universe laughs with every breath
Don't rest on your laurels... LIVE
87 · Jan 2018
See
Robert C Ellis Jan 2018
See
Hours sour with humanity seizing
The sump pump of the universe
Dissolving another poet
Yet the rivers never reverse

The detonation of the human being
We are the universe when it is seeing
what becomes of light in the grasp of gravity
I long for when things were elementary
76 · May 4
Untitled
Sitting in a chair
Sipping coffee
Swatting at gnats
Or, the universe dancing

The morning sun stirs twilight
Never mixing or setting free
In between are the living
Burning the chemistry
67 · Dec 2024
Untitled
Robert C Ellis Dec 2024
You’ve got to Tumble atoms into reaction
Like playing with my wild dog
Like digging ditches or squeezing
Honeysuckle until the smell won’t wash off your fingers
Break the seals off a Twilight
That lingers

— The End —