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Category: Poetry

Snap Shots with a Camera [Video]

July 14, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Snap Shots taken with a DSLR camera, forever preserving the past.

Open. Close.
Fractions of a second.
Light in. Flash out.
A scene set in rolling stone.

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Alley Side Acknowledgment [Video]

July 12, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Winter brings such gentle chaos: a calm calamity that cleaves the air
With drifting snowfall and the dissipating ghosts of our every breath.

it's hard to shake hands when they're
buried deep in the warmth of coat pockets.
A turned-collar nod of the head, then, br /> becomes status quo for the season's greeting.

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Black Winter [Video]

July 10, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Texas Summer: mosquitos and allergies.

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The Winter [Video]

July 8, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Procrastination and distraction take complete control of me in sight of beauty.

Pat’s cottage is something from a postcard,
a picturesque New England lakefront cabin
humbled beneath a titanic Milky Way panorama.

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Tu Me Connais [Video]

June 30, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

My 7th grade class had meetings on Bullying, but people thought It wasn't affecting me... It hurt.

"What about kids like Drew?
He doesn't care, he smiles and laughs,
Surely he isn't hurt!"
She spoke up against them for me,
"You don't know that!"
They sure know about me now.

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Intention [Video]

June 24, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Surreal reality meets nihilistic truths. No One ever Intended to be born.

It's strange to watch yourself move, speak, write, and live with out ever intending to do anything...

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Insight [Video]

June 20, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

To be alive is to succeed, Be free from needless suffering.

Accept this, and be free from needless suffering.

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Plucking Life’s Strings [Video]

June 18, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ 1 Comment

There was almost something special about hearing Kent play Guitar. It brought internal silent peace.

I want to close my eyes and hear
; my brother play guitar at night,
the way he used to in high school…

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A Knight in Motley Armor [Video]

June 16, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I'm sick of always acting the fool, but perchance I'll find a better footing.

I wish to leave the page filled up to the end with clever, compassionate wisdom, but I bumble and folly like a fool in motley,
driveling conversations sounding from the bells on my cap

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The Beginner’s Mind [Video]

June 14, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

" The beginner's mind is a state of childlike wonder that brings new perspective to your day-to-do mundane activities. It is a highly recommended mindfulness practice.

In basic mindfulness, they speak of the “Beginner’s Mind.”
A child-like fascination with everything around you which
Causes you to pay more attention to things we would call “mundane.”

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The Churn [Video]

June 12, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

An exposition on the scatterbrained mindlessness that befalls my mind when I'm not practicing my meditation.

The churn-- it leaves reason one-step behind;
sentences search for their periods
in a sea of alphabet soup

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A Watery Swallow [Video]

June 10, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A high school betrayal that lead to months of fighting, I still have some bitterness towards it.

That's all I’ve ever been to you,
a watery swallow of the same old ale.
You hold me by my long slender neck
and tip me back, choking down my life.

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The Silence [Video]

June 6, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

My poem, "The Silence" based off the calmest state of effortless mindfulness I've ever encountered. Truly a beautiful experience.

It comes as the gentle caress of opening a window in a stale, warm room.
A whispering reminder that fresh-air and insight are the same thing.

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The Fall [Video]

June 4, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Video of my poem "The Fall." It explores the difficulty of observing your thoughts mindfully and the discipline it takes to act in a wholesome manner.

Seeing that the water approached a fall,
you screamed out from the riverbed
a warning that filled your mouth with dirt.

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Still Now but Never Now [Video]

June 1, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

My mindfulness insight during a particularly scatter-brained session.

To be made free and original every moment detaches me
from the burden of believing I am permanently defined by past,
each second I am free to be whatever I desire or need.
Shame and doubt have no hold on a moment freshly spawned.

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Dry Heaved Hate [Video]

May 30, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A poem about the night before heading to college, when my friend OD'd on alcohol and his father called me livid.

You don't dream after drinking like this;
Only a black moments falls our mind
To open our eyes to a headache and thirst.

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Memory’s Shadow [Video]

May 28, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A poem written for my late grandmother and how I always viewed her as my Grandfather's shadow.

He never took notice of the woman
For which the room now grieves.

She was his grandfather's shadow,
The face that smiled behind his smiling eyes
Now puddled behind curved glass.

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A Turquoise Morning

May 26, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

As the sun rises outside,
I find myself awake again,
shamelessly writing silly words
that paint pictures in my brain.

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Wasteland for Thought

May 24, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Why should it be hard to find
the right words to write?
My words seldom fail me so.

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A Poem for No One

May 22, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ 1 Comment

Inspiration spread thin
I'm spread out in bed again
spreading ink out onto paper.
Photo by Laker on Pexels.com

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Childish Wonder [Video]

May 20, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I desire to live each moment in childish wonder.

I endeavor to live my life through the eyes of a toddler, ,
constantly amused and learning everything new for the first time;

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The Luckiest Bunny

May 20, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

...For without her soft, steadfast caring, he would certainly be dead.
Photo by C. Toro on Pexels.com

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The Kid Who Believed

May 16, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I had more patience with my muse back then. I wouldn't touch pen to paper before I had fully plotted out what to say and how. I would sit and wait contently for the right words and sounds.

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Horrible Ghost [Video]

May 15, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A poem describing the anguish of monotony.

A putrid mist of devilish self-hatred
floating about aimlessly, hungry for
anything and everything to change
what I’m feeling deep inside myself.

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Horrible Ghost

May 14, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

What horrible ghost have I become?
A putrid mist of devilish self-hatred
floating about aimlessly, hungry for
anything and everything to change
what I'm feeling deep inside myself.

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