tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59581628591343650092024-02-07T03:54:28.092-05:00Creative writingsAlphabetic poetry, Creative writings, short stories, etc..BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-22161754533230762922012-07-08T23:47:00.000-04:002012-07-08T23:47:11.901-04:00Outer Shell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Self-contained</div>
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imprisoned</div>
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shackled </div>
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arm and foot</div>
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three foot bubble</div>
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encased</div>
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outer shell</div>
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INTACT</div>
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densely imbound</div>
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seeking release</div>
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intrinsic kernel</div>
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yet to be found</div>
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<b>Another Day</b><br />
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Another day scrapped <span style="background-color: white;">with its demons</span><br />
having folded in upon themselves<br />
Creased and cornered tightly<br />
tucked yet <span style="background-color: white;">still wrinkled</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">in just the right places</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Another creeping sunset </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">arrives unbeckoned wandering</span><br />
carrying whimpering westerly winds<br />
Sighing, seeking for the open window<br />
searching to crowd the senses<br />
with a gale of its own jasmine blossom<br />
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Another flawed day<br />
trapped in its own domain<br />
a montage of pain, of quiet song<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">joy mingled with suffering</span><br />
of sweet harmony, broken melody<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">a granite heart carved rightly</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Another day to kindle the kettle</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">until all the worries burn</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">whistle another day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">summon deep pleasures</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">whisking the soul away</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">in ample delight</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Another day taken flight</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">alighted on mercy's tree</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">transfused with satisfaction </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">herbal remedy intravenously </span><br />
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A refreshing supply of reliable content<br />
like peppermint flavored veins<br />
with cotton candy coated walls<br />
jubilant flow now takes the reins<br />
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<span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">One line runs</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">continuously</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">on a narrow path</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">as far as the eye can see</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">until it broadens with breadth</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">advancing widely</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">stopping so hastily</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">continuing upward</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">bounding with height</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">surging onward</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ever so vertically</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">til it slowly dips</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">diving downard</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">plunging with depth</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">still growing</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">moving hastening</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">its dimensions</span><br style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="color: #443f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ever so cubically</span>
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Dear Lord,<br />
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I pray that I would not be a one-dimensional seeker. <br />
A one liner, lacking breadth. Or even two-dimensional merely. <br />
But Lord, with others may we experience you as the breadth, the length, the height and the depth; <span style="background-color: white;">corporately, unashamedly without preference l</span><span style="background-color: white;">ike a three-</span><span style="background-color: white;">dimensional</span><span style="background-color: white;"> cube. Only then will our experience of Christ be complete. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">(Inspired by Ephesians 3:18) </span></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-20908885240348340472012-05-03T00:05:00.000-04:002012-05-03T00:05:16.579-04:00Wise Trees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Inspired by two massive, aged, wise trees I noticed on a beautiful evening. <br />
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<b>Wise Trees</b><br />
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<i>On the nightside, parked</i><br />
<i>tucked in the shadow</i><br />
<i>I took courage at seeing</i><br />
<i>your gorgeous crown,</i><br />
<i>dense dimensions,</i><br />
<i>fullness of wisdom</i><br />
<i>of your elegant roots. </i><br />
<i>Your presence </i><br />
<i>so charming</i><br />
<i>draws me closer </i><br />
<i>within the limits </i><br />
<i>of your </i><br />
<i>massive frondescence </i><br />
<i>please fold me closer</i><br />
<i>wrap me tightly
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<i>with your wise </i><br />
<i>winged boughs</i><br />
<i>I beg you, branch deeply </i><br />
<i>into the chambers </i><br />
<i>of my heart and </i><br />
<i>fill me with your</i><br />
<i>stability</i><br />
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Seeds sown<br />
in tilled hearts<br />
taking root;<br />
gaining ground<br />
rummaging,<br />
seeking room<br />
gathering fruit<br />
of mind, emotion<br />
will.<br />
resurfaced<br />
determined<br />
trailing arm, limb<br />
winding<br />
winding<br />
each extremity<br />
creeping<br />
creeping<br />
head to toe<br />
holding fast tendrils grip<br />
til blessed immobility<br />
wholly encompassed<br />
slithering, sliding<br />
in full poetic bloom</div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-11218977953060804952012-05-01T23:16:00.000-04:002012-05-01T23:16:33.695-04:00The King's Roots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The King's choice seed has been planted<br />
His royal germ is well known<br />
Full growth its full inclination<br />
Into majestic garden, stately home<br />
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The life within, stirred demanding<br />
Constant perfection, glory replete<br />
as gem-laden rhizomes drink ripe earth<br />
sinking plumb deep, wayward creep<br />
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Its uncomeliness has now been broken<br />
From cracked shell it obtains escape<br />
Pivoting to and fro developing<br />
With wiggle room taking shape<br />
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<b>April Whispers-May Daze</b><br />
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I whispered into her ear<br />
hopelessly, in wistful undertone<br />
But she quickly turned away<br />
evanesced before my eyes<br />
My words never reaching<br />
her inner ear fade softly<br />
into May daze<br />
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An Assembled symphony<br />
An April PAD song<br />
A sensational vibration<br />
Thirty days long<br />
Reverberating<br />
Immensely<br />
Still echoing<br />
Bounding<br />
Reflecting<br />
Traveling<br />
Carried<br />
Through<br />
Wind<br />
Distancing
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As<br />
an<br />
Echoed<br />
Word<br />
Flown<br />
Yet<br />
Still<br />
heard<br />
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<b>Ella Muse</b><br />
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She comes<br />
to visit<br />
unnoticed<br />
creeps<br />
leaves<br />
without<br />
saying<br />
goodbye<br />
sometimes<br />
she<br />
comes<br />
arrayed<br />
in red<br />
clothing<br />
sexy<br />
charming<br />
alarming<br />
sometimes<br />
she's<br />
full<br />
of<br />
choice<br />
words<br />
sentiment<br />
over<br />
flowing<br />
confident<br />
other<br />
times<br />
she's<br />
hardly<br />
there<br />
uncomely<br />
bashful
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lacking<br />
but the<br />
reality<br />
is<br />
sometimes<br />
she<br />
doesn't<br />
show<br />
at<br />
all<br />
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The problem with kids is that <br />
They often come without a manual. <br />
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The problem with kids is that <br />
they're so adorably wicked<br />
bite-size cuties. <br />
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The problem with kids is<br />
that they're many times insufferable<br />
and yet so approachable. <br />
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The problem with kids is that<br />
They don't normally come with extended warranty<br />
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The problem with kids is that they <br />
can be insidiously inconvenient and constant botheration. <br />
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The problem with kids is that <br />
they're so precious you're temporarily <br />
deluded to birth another<br />
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The problem with kids is that they're <br />
notoriously naughty always on the most wanted mommies and daddies list. <br />
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The problem with kids is that they <br />
grow up to be just like us. <br />
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April Goodbyes<br />
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Alright.<br />
I'm ready.<br />
Lips pursed,<br />
Puckered steady.<br />
Kiss me...<br />
Goodbye April PAD.</div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-18337795356908867092012-04-27T07:34:00.002-04:002012-04-27T07:34:38.762-04:00The Trouble is keeping the Fire going<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>The Trouble is keeping the Fire going</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">Who is the author of this April PAD ardor?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">With combustible talent, just who could be the starter?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">Not in concurrent flames existing that burn side by side</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; position: static;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; position: static;">But of collective spirit enkindled, conveying collaborative stride </span></span><br />
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<br /></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-88462004996585346772012-04-26T07:43:00.000-04:002012-04-26T07:43:26.036-04:00Transformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Transformation</b><br />
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<br />
Somewhere in the night<br />
I morphed into a sloth;<br />
Dim blackened eyes,<br />
Woolly-haired three toed beast.<br />
Lanky arms slither-n-slide across the bed<br />
With slack hand releasing<br />
The snooze button... again.<br />
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<br /></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-81787369928355941452012-04-25T07:42:00.000-04:002012-04-25T07:42:47.401-04:00The Good Old Days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>The Good Old Days</b><br />
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Simply no longer in the<br />
limelight of any sort of sport<br />
Unless you include chasing kids<br />
before bath and bedtime.<br />
Laid waste as the day draws<br />
nearer to forty<br />
than in the beginning<br />
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Now I contemplate<br />
the hustle and bustle<br />
of the good ol' days;<br />
the days of old,<br />
which were new<br />
back then...<br />
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It was growth like a beanstalk<br />
evergreen, with lasting foliage<br />
dashing down the court<br />
contesting every shot<br />
dodging the potholes<br />
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Posting up in the paint<br />
Ascending for the rebound<br />
Now I hardly leave the ground<br />
My feet pain of fasciitis<br />
<br />
My knees scream retire<br />
Nothing left in these old tires<br />
The air of youth has rescinded<br />
From this old vehicle<br />
And the weight born<br />
Wears with every mile<br />
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<b>Ashes (anti-love poem)</b><br />
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It was nothing less than<br />
your hazardous double-edged<br />
discernment that hacked us into pieces.<br />
<br />
Our lingering hopes were shredded<br />
by your serrated attitudes.<br />
Our marriage, was irreconcilably minced.<br />
<br />
Our union reduced to sawdust;<br />
clambered in the wind<br />
and scattered like chaff.<br />
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<br /></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-25470921362498355542012-04-24T18:20:00.000-04:002012-04-24T18:20:02.901-04:00Addled Attraction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Addled Attraction</b><br />
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I love your sass<br />
And sarsaparilla hips<br />
Luscious, dark raven locks<br />
Sauced, glistening lips<br />
Those thick thunderous thighs<br />
With nothing left undisguised<br />
But only to your surprise<br />
Do I say, do you love me?<br />
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<br /></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-15629930948228057262012-04-24T07:38:00.000-04:002012-04-24T07:38:55.690-04:00Pillow Talk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Pillow Talk</b><br />
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<br />
Mmmm...<br />
Just another minute...<br />
I definitely don't want to leave you.<br />
With you, I'm so comfortable.<br />
Deluded by buoyant embrace.<br />
So, so drawn to your softness, cuddlesome character.<br />
When I'm with you, I'm weightless.<br />
And my cozen bones whisk away...<br />
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<b><i>Miss Morning</i></b><br />
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<i>In the womb of the dawn</i><br />
<i>Morning awakens</i><br />
<i>With fierce arising</i><br />
<i>From the depths of night unkept</i><br />
<i>With bounteous hope in her ray</i><br />
<i>Gathering spring in her step</i><br />
<i>Splashing emergent newness</i><br />
<i>Nascent quickening day</i><br />
<i>Scattering darkness</i><br />
<i>Piercing forest, leaf, limb</i><br />
<i>Fully pacing, hastening her way</i><br />
<i>Racing for miles</i><br />
<i>Smiling and giving smiles away</i><br />
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<br /></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-23351975446223639082012-04-22T22:55:00.000-04:002012-04-22T22:57:56.377-04:00Unreliable Minds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Unreliable Minds</b><br />
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The mind works by knowledge<br />
When knowledge is lacking<br />
It operates under free assumption<br />
That holds no truth<br />
But rather fallacious fabrications<br />
That lead to irrational conception<br />
Issuing in unreliable misjudgment<br />
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<b>Supplier of Life</b><br />
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Precious is the heart<br />
the invigorating muscle of the human body<br />
Constantly handling our life blood<br />
day in, day out<br />
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Effortlessly dispensing<br />
the precious life juice<br />
to every cell in need<br />
fostering growth, function<br />
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Precious is the heart, the enduring ox<br />
that only knows to labor<br />
showing no tire<br />
knowing no fatigue
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<br /></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-49536640541306612702012-04-21T15:57:00.000-04:002012-04-21T15:57:46.235-04:00HUMAN HARMONY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>HUMAN HARMONY</b> (Tanka)<br />
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Brick by brick conjoined,<br />
Layered cellular beauties<br />
Perform their duty<br />
Interdependently well<br />
In multi-cellular tune<br />
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<br /></div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-66981357442906709252012-04-21T12:03:00.001-04:002012-04-21T12:03:52.644-04:00The Time will Come<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>The Time will Come</b></div>
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The end is near<br />at the doors<br />the end of life<br />as we know it<br />the end of strife<br />as we show it<br />the end is near<br />for the proud<br />the low, the naughty<br />the time will arise<br />for the humble<br />arrogant, the haughty<br />the time will come<br />and the sun will shine<br />with rays of healing<br />in His wings<br />these are true words</div>
</div>BenjaminThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035632163739588553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5958162859134365009.post-18523615131085714992012-04-21T11:27:00.000-04:002012-04-21T11:27:35.850-04:00Uninvited Guest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Uninvited Guest</b></div>
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Arctic winds push<br />Sly wintry mixes<br />Weathering limb, life<br />Feathery masses<br />Of crystal flake<br />Dominate the landscape<br />Dressed in snow white blankets</div>
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<b>Let's Write something</b><br />
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I'm willing but my mind is void<br />
The muse is not open yet<br />
My words have abandoned me<br />
And have gone astray<br />
Retreat!<br />
...time for coffee<br />
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