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 Mar 2024 Eshwara Prasad
Camille
My shifting gaze caught yours, unexpectedly.
Your soul was like a calm sea, comforting my ever existence.
You called to me and then I flew.
That's when I knew, it was you.
Everyone needs Peace,
but not everyone has the courage
to admit it.
In a lattice-lit dorm room sits a writer.
A discarded chemistry book lies beside her.
because ideas are hitting off her, like a collider.

Why does writing make her feel alive-er?
Cause it helps sort out the feelings inside her?

Repose is something grinding-study denies her.

Now, rhyming isn't her primary desire
the connections form, almost, despite her
poetry’s at it best when it comes unaware
“Oh,” she thinks, like, we’re going there?

What she writes might eventually be shared
with that awareness she vowels with care
picking words when they seem the ripest
shaping phrases like some sort of stylist
she may be less of a poet than a typist

Her default is to narrative - like you read in novels
cause let’s face it - cold-poetry is as dead as vaudeville,
as buried as silent movies, letters and opera,
have I come to dig Caesar up, like a fossil?
.
.
cold = straight up
Life can seem like a nightmare
I'm afraid of all of the time
I release my flair in the night air
Noticing all the fear is of the same kind
I more than recognize the familiar glare
The eyes looking back at me are mine
Aware that I'm unaware
Fair or not,
Witness my paradigm

©2024
to save a thread
            or cut it out
     or
           let
                  it
                       dwindle
the     natural      route
what can I promise every day?

nothing

but perhaps the closest thing to a ring

I will continue shaving my corners down
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