Author’s note: This poem was inspired by a quote I came across online that I now know came from Werner Herzog’s memoir. I know nothing of the man, but the following quote had me thinking: “I’d rather die than go to an analyst, because it’s my view that something fundamentally...
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Moonlight
How perfect you looked beneath the moonlight,
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An Ashen Inheritance
Among a row of houses sat a solitary great house atop a high hill. This great house was an old house, by and large considered one of the “better” houses. Nevertheless, like all material things, it was not without its blemishes: in some of its support beams were termites; in...
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The Tortoise and the Eagle
Author’s note: Inspiration taken from Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and The Eagle”. Variations of it can be found here https://fablesofaesop.com/the-tortoise-and-the-eagle.html.
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Endurance of Spirit
Man is first pliable,
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Lord's Prayer on a Bowsprit
O Lord,
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Come Home
If it’s true, as oft they claim,
That one’s eyes are windows to one’s soul,
Then come close, peer deep within,
Glimpse the depths of this restless heart of mine.
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Haiku at 3am
Author’s note: Driving back from a party late at night and my slight astigmatism causing the other vehicle’s lights to seem like halos, my mind went straight to stars, their beauty, and the kernel of the idea that the terrestrial mirrors the heavens, but does so imperfectly; an example being...
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Tumbleweeds
Two lovers
Apart
Separated by large and empty desert expanse
On which the wind gently rocks tumbleweeds to and fro
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Perhaps I should have been a Painter
Much to the disappointment of romantics
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