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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Still (Agates)</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I sit quite still on what is left</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Of an ancient and mighty foundation</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A rock that used to be hidden</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Unknown</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Part of a vast landscape</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">That is now pulverized<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Into sand, into agate</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The waves keep on advancing</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Year after year</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Day after day</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Moment after moment</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">So I sit here and pray</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">By just enjoying the sunset</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Enjoying the spray</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Listening to the sounds of the destruction</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Listening to the sounds of creation</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">There’s an incredible symmetry to it all</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I hear the ocean’s beckon call</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I answer with the most vociferous of silence</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I answer with the most ardent of still</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I see the colors, I sense the will</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">To just simply sit here alone on the foundations</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Wondering where my foundations have gone</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">They’ve disappeared into the ocean’s song</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Leaving behind the sand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">And the agates</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">2/5/20, kdc</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">End of September</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the summer that is never ending</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The autumn came 3 days ago</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But only on the calendar</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The days are still warm; hot, even</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">It seems they are waiting for something to change</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Something to change before they will change</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Sounds so familiar to me</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I pass by a local maple tree</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Its leaves know it’s the end of September</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The last time I felt, I don’t remember</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The meaning or the beauty of it all</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I think the answer to my levity</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Is I am focused always, forever, on me</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">That is such a finite pool to draw from</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Though I sense the waveforms of the eternal</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The autumn came 3 days ago</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But only on the calendar</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">These days still warm, still far from tender</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Are waiting for something to change</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Sounds so familiar to me</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">9/24/19 kdc</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Chase beauty and it will find you</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Give out love and you will find it</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Watch the palm trees sway in the autumn winds</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The change of seasons is coming , as it always does,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And everything is new again</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Stop trying to measure the meter</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Stop trying to match the rhyme<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Stop trying to know all the secrets<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Listen to your heart speak, sublime</span></span></div>
<div class="p2" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The winds make the waves on the waters</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Directing them where they will go</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The waters make sounds on the borders</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the edge that we know</span></span></div>
<div class="p2" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet the beyond is calling</span></span></div>
<div class="p2" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">9/16/19</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-65726555753334887432019-09-07T21:10:00.000-07:002019-09-07T21:10:34.317-07:00The Races<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Races</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I sit on the back porch</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Night</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Cool breeze stirring in its freedom</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The crickets chirping all around me</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">An occasional change in their rhythm</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Rarely a change in their rhyme</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The waxing moon rests above</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Saturn in her gracious clutches</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Peace, tranquility, good</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the realm beyond time</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Off in the distance I hear the roar of the engines</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The race is on</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Another car goes down the road</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Roaring</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Fast, furious, growling</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Loud</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Obnoxious even, trying to drown out nature’s sounds</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Blistering speeds</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Conquering time</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Driving on for that one precious millisecond</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">What a perfect picture of our world</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">In a hurry to run in circles</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Raging on to get nowhere in particular</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Enslaved to the clock</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All the while the earth rests in quiet peace</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And will continue to do so for a long, long time</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Just listen to the sounds of the rock</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The crickets are chirping all around me</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There is so much power in the quiet</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">9/7/19 kdc</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-49439656938677299652019-08-24T20:28:00.000-07:002019-08-24T20:28:21.753-07:00Life's Essence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Life’s Essence</span></b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We think we’re so smart</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet we really don’t even know what life is</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Sure you can boil and pipet</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You can microscope and experiment</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You can hypothesize, theorize</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We can discover</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Neurons, mesons, electrical processes</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">DNA that tells us everything</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Fourteen complex reactions for every photon</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Processing it into vision</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A hammer and nail, tapping morse code</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Turning it into electricity and then to sound</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We know all of this</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet we can throw it all into a bucket</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And not have one nanogram of life in the mix</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All the ingredients</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Simple, complex</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But not one ounce of spirit</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All of this material can exist in a corpse</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But cannot regenerate itself anymore</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">So what is life? What is it for?</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The scientists and philosophers have their own ways of knowing</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But I like the poetic answer:</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We don’t know</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But it surely looks and sounds and smells and tastes and feels</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Like love</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">8/24/19 kdc</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-71538242768816033452019-07-21T18:10:00.000-07:002019-07-21T18:10:28.369-07:00Creatives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Creatives</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Artists are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a lot like God</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">They come up to a great nothing</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Blank and void and empty</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">They begin to see</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">They begin to draw</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">They begin to paint</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Layers at a time</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">At any given point</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You can hear the whispers from outside</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">“What is that?"<br />
“That makes no sense”</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And the ever present and inevitable, “Oooo, that is so ugly.”</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet you are not done</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You are not done at all</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">More tones, more colors, more light, more depth</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A song, hummed in quiet peace</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Artistry unfolds</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Magic happens</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">When the finished product appears</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There is nothing but awe in in the whispers</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">So it is with you</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">7/21/19 kdc</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-40552734513718935942019-07-18T21:43:00.000-07:002019-07-18T21:55:03.161-07:00Pressing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Pressing</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I need to write</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m not sure why</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All I want is to touch the sky</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet all I do is squirm through the earth</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t want to hear all the caterpillar metaphors</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I see what happens to the earthworms</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Food for birds</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Drying out in the hot sun</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Dying on the sidewalks</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Eating, eliminating, pushing on, dying</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">This surely cannot be what this parable is all about</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I try to scream, I’d like to shout</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But the sound doesn’t go past my canines</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I sit here and stare</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I’d like to wonder,</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But I sit here and stare</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I hear the sounds of children</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Running, playing, talking, meaningless chatter</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But everything means everything to them</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe it should be that way with me</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead of worrying what is worth my while</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Coming to the conclusion that all is meaningless</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe I should assume all is worthwhile</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Embrace it all with wonder</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Even those things of dark charades</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All of life is simply a game anyway</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Except there really are no winners and losers</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s why the whole thing is a great mystery</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">For those of us seeking nothing but answers</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We swim in an ocean of disenchantment, disappointment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">For those who simply love to live</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">They splash in rivers of delight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">What is the secret to leaving night?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I forgive myself and all who have known me</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All who have left me out to dry</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I hear the sounds of splashing waves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">7/18/19 kdc</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-59245826742549582882019-07-14T15:45:00.003-07:002019-07-14T15:45:49.798-07:00Resilience<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Resilience</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Everything beautiful about you</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Has been cut to the ground</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The lines of the years now on your face</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You feel like you are just one small disgrace</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">In a great big universe of order and shadow</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But I see something</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I see where everyone thought you were dead</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet you are alive</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You are branching out again</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You are alive</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You are wondrous</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">You are resilient</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-920357024622468982019-06-27T11:36:00.005-07:002019-06-27T11:36:58.166-07:00Anniversary Haiku<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Anniversary Haiku</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Marry me again, Love</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Everything you touch, beauty</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Our Love forevermore</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Broke the rules again</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Eight instead of seven there</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Freedom is magic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Marry me again, Love</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All you touch turns to beauty</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Our love forevermore</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A true haiku</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">kdc, 6/26/19</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-8780190487074296472019-06-18T22:03:00.000-07:002019-06-18T22:03:01.053-07:00Grateful<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Grateful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah, for so long I have tried to be the poet extraordinaire</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But, alas, my books just sit on the shelf</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Not going anywhere</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I made all sorts of excuses</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s the modern day</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">No one reads poetry anymore</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There has to be a video</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There has to be a meme</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Vacillating from one to another extreme</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I have finally realized</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve tried too hard to be someone I’m not</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Do that for too long and your soul will rot</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">To the point where even you notice the smell</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The stench, the pain, there is no gain,</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The wrench</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">That finally breaks the bolts from the tightening</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Then comes that feeling that is all too frightening</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The feeling of panicked disarray</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The feeling of floating in outer space</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Knowing you’re a million light years from anywhere</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And nowhere is where you’ll always be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Sure that floating feeling is free</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But freedom without any boundary is nothing less</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Than death by lonely wandering</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And that death is very, very slow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">How do I get past this vaudeville show?</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I do not know, I do not know</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">This seems to be my favorite answer</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">More and more popular it becomes by the day</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m told to read, I’m told to pray</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet silence has forever greeted me</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I wish I could be more upbeat</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead of this deadpan sullen</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet there are days where these perceptions must come forth</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There are nights where the soul is broken</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There are lives in which living is not seen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I think it’s time to find the green</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The life that comes from seeking light</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But I’ve said that all before</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s almost become a daily chore</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Not the majesty and the mystery that it should</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I sit and stare at a piece of wood</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiting for it to save me</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Can I find true life within a tree</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Is it living</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Or is it dead?</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">These voices go on and on inside my head</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I could probably go on like this forever</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">So before I drone on into a cumbersome blather</span></span></div>
<div class="p3">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I am simply going to stop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">To say</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for this day</span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">kdc, 6/8/19</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724491004845075854.post-1575096208087921342019-06-02T18:36:00.000-07:002019-06-02T18:36:23.529-07:00Dead Amongst the Living<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dead Amongst the Living</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m no longer writing poetry</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m not sure why</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I sit here on the front porch</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Looking at the sky</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And that is all I do</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">These thoughts are many</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">These thoughts are few</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I just don’t know who I am anymore</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Stillness can be heaven</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Stillness can be hell</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And often I cannot</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Will not</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Tell the difference</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">These dichotomies have created judgment in me</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t want that anymore</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But this place where I sit amongst a sandy shore</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Feels very unsettling to me</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">All I wanted was to be free</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And all I got was imprisoned</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The train blows shrill across the chasm</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s a warning instead of an announcement</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But he seems to be having fun letting it loose</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Over and over and over</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I look down at the struggling clover</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">That is surviving this summer heat</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Nothing else here questions its existence</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Nothing</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;">So why do I?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;">Why do I sit and stare at sky</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">And wonder why it is I’m here?</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">To sing a song, to drink a beer</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">To play a game, to work a day</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">To walk on and on in this merry way</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">That leads to both great joy and brutal heartache</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope that those that attend my wake</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Will be there to have fun when they greet me</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">kdc, 6/2/19</span></span></div>
<br />Duane Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06930943199171004683noreply@blogger.com0