pohem

[pohem]

54.

"they're only words,"

she said,

wind wants what it wants

and it is willing

to push apart

drum and conch

then weedle into

days and dreams

ways and schemes

it hurries to harm

as these

winding words shape

our synapses

and shake

our selfishness

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53.

sorrow

shapes us

winds that chisel

edging, sharper-softer,

swords. surround

the hilt is

not handled

hinder all

our

workwards

cinder all

our narrow

feet and footing

found underneath

our soles

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4.

linger

in my palm

in the heart

of my hands

these stones set for throwing

into windows of water

breaking our distancing

those tides

turning tension

into turmoil

a fuming apparatus

now earthed

silent and

still

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3.

in the rig

of the edge,

on fire

in the sea

and sunk beneath

waves

of sunlit seige

pleads in passing

the underworld calling

romancing our

toothless tangles

all salt and swarthy

a scratching

at the hull of

mouths & maw

these canines glint

as the water finds

the lungs

our long lost love

cantering to

come undone

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2.

ran

the glassic

distance

of red light nights

and distant sirensong,

wailing

through

the static of the city

metahegemony

— the gaze, male,

that maze, burning electric

as scoped by satellites

we are the waves

will not waiver,

relentlessly drumming

the shores of liars

those false idols

and robberBarrons

our voices will be heard

in legends and in legions

no lesion left unsalted

we will open the tombs of wounds

we will be heard

we

will

be

heard

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1.

hindsight,

further finder

weary

we are

parting ways

to paths uncertain

in boats

destined for waters

uncharted lives

but how is this new?

everything's uncharted

unsung

we are new -

heroes and helpers

of songs

yet to come

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[pohem]

52.

all moments

small and broken

where we are all

small and broken

but the pieces linger

they come and go

back together

like tigerseye,

t-automation,

zero limits

in the heart,

our hands

left holding

all these

small

and broken

moments

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51.

hollow moths

beat the panes

. of lit lanterns.

— outside the night

eats the legs of trees

leading up

the mountain side;

inside the light

eyes search the walls

for sleep's embrace

and the daughters of nyx

laughing softly ;

these moths

could drown

in all the thoughts

that have filled

our ocean's full

and still

the outside

stillness

rustles in

its own sleep

as the dark

(and the house

of erebus)

lingers on

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50.

am I

woodsmoke

or saltwater

nightbirds nesting into

ptolemaic tellings

in sipid sun signs

simplified and sighed

should the sugar dot the i

in the waning wake

of you and i

filament feed

on the upper eye

(udjat)

Horus/hawkish faced

the secret eye

turned to

swollen bellies

in each

and

every

iris

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49.

thursday.

at last thursday.

the last thursday.

raining on the ride in

staining on the sides

of passing through

moments,

made hard,

shaped soft,

and in the middle

doubts absolved

of what future fears, fought

frought success is

sometimes completion

simple sets passed

but completed

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48.

what bird in sky

fish in lake

or fox in forest

fits, finding in scope

a stillness of sorrow

are yesterday's

moments

tied to rocks

receding

under currents,

just as

(f)oxes fast

as Faust,

in their

priming way,

made weaker

and weeping,

kneel-ed

and humbled

in the shadow

of standing trees

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47.

what do

we have to offer

but our silence

when

there could be

rain drops

we are

course-less

in rising waters

in knots of gale

we are

navigators

on open seas

without our charts

what do

we have to offer

but empty hands

waiting

and open

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46.

( self, letting go

doesn’t mean )

clouded monk,

monk on a road,

blue-grey rains

patter;

a threat; cumulonimbus, nimbus.

yet unattached to the road,

or even their clothed-back,

feet finding

mirth in miles

free as compassion in action

when wings take flight..

little wings,

little hearts,

beating into

a thundering sky..

as non-attachment

attaches meaning

to heartmarks –

their worth:

a coin in hand,

and a single sole

upon the road.

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45.

b.

have we hardened –

and can no longer change

cannot move on

as palms pressing rocks

into our ridges

feral, fight and frothing;

yet, can we not,

as stalled stones,

be broken open

(by the gritted ground,

touching faces)

and turn our

parted pieces

back into seeds

at the ready,

a waiting earth,

swallowing again,

swallow's call

(a welcomed bell, ringing)

for new growth.

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