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Even if the poem sucks
Even if it’s nonsense
Even if you don’t know what it means yet
Just start writing and see what happens
You might learn something about yourself or the world
Here’s today’s poem, I spent maybe 10 minutes on it:
Give me your demons
I will carry them away
Give me your hate
I will extinguish the flame
Give me every tear
I will feed them to the earth
And tend to your garden.
Jan 31, 2025
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from omeros, by derek walcott:
“Measure the days you have left. Do just that labour
which marries your heart to your right hand: simplify
your life to one emblem, a sail leaving harbour
and a sail coming in.”
advice to a young, wandering poet given by the phantom of his father. words to live by, to repeat to oneself every once in a while!
Jan 29, 2024
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let me be still
on a monday morning
you
try to push me out
but
i’m not ready yet
I like this canal
or, cavity
it’s warm and not as wet
as where you want me to be
i’m a part of you
why do you wish to expel me?
to send me down
like Flushed Away
but i’m no Shane Ritchie
no,
i’m your garbage
from somewhere else in your body
with someone else in your body
i’m just a waste (of time)
give me a place (no grime)
of permanence
- poop, forever in motion
Feb 1, 2024
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14 lines one topic abab cdcd efef gg iambic pentameter (./ ./ ./ ./ ./)
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write even if its poo poo thats the point???
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wrote this diddy abt being in bed all day
(ed endings are pronounced (chang-ed))
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“Sickness”
Suns rise lungs depress eyes spine lay downward
Shifts beneath cotton wool illusion of silk
Such soft stills as the heart beats blood onward
Sores spinal cord twists stretch crackle joint ilk
Side turn legs cross eyes sore from prolonging
Silence as someone checks you’ve changed place
Slight defiance in latitude daylong
Same ceiling above responses in haze
Simple it feels to concave for hours
Stretching not standing or shower taking
Stench of clothes unchanged beneath cowers
So avoid your duties sleep awaking
See dreams gravity press patterns close eyes
Sick day sweet laughter you lay on your lies
Jan 24, 2024
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