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    • evocative muse
    • meditation relaxation
    • reflective healing
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  • a poet’s kitchen
  • a poet’s notes
  • contact
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  • about
  • a poet’s playground
    • alternate avenues
    • evocative muse
    • meditation relaxation
    • reflective healing
  • a poet’s art
  • a poet’s kitchen
  • a poet’s notes
  • contact

a poet's playground

your empty space

if you wander
deep enough
into the forest
you might find
an empty space

a place
that doesn’t need filling
a place
to embrace
the forest surrounding
a place
to let woes
flow softly away
for the trees
will gladly
absorb

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something simple

all i asked for
was a grilled cheese sandwich
something simple
like me
nothing complicated
& confusing
like jane
who is anything
but plain

who’s idea was that
anyway

could use a drink
an aphrodisiac
should come
with a warning label
drink

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friends never leave

i woke this day
knowing
feeling wasn’t ended
only suspended
………………….in time
displaced
for this place
is merely mine

hurt fades
tears evaporate
hearts mend
one’s strength
never breaks ………only bends

if life’s luster
musters fears

find me
for friends
never

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outline

the task
an outline
of one’s life

the thought
a drawing
of one’s past

why
would he
want to remember
the dark
and dingy
cobwebbed corners
filled with skeletons of flies

why
would he
want to remember
a drunken father
and

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Full Red Moon

time to cleanse
time to breathe
freely

release
relinquish
the undesirables

the light
of
this red moon
elucidates
the hurdles that
block ones growth

time to purge
what no longer serves
your welfare

heal

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this…… a place

this
a place
of rest
a place
to undress
your thoughts
your worries
your concerns

this
a place
where fears
frustrations & failures
are shattered
a place
of friendship
of companionship

this
a place

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