Your Eyes Are Sad

no, don't smile
not just yet
your eyes are sad
let's sit 
in falling shadows
let's hear
silences unburden
let's share
darkness between us
let's wait 
for the dawn

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Fallen Sky

those muddy puddles
in seasons of rain
fallen pieces of sky
stepped over in disdain 

Being Me

the seed of oak
falls to earth
and becomes an oak
no matter
what grows around it
and so I must be
me 
in this world

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Two Tiny Poems

boats 
are love notes
between long separated shores 

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my beauty fades
your eyes dim
see me now
in light within 

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Separations

let's not believe in separations
let's not be fooled
by the stories of our bodies
their meetings give nothing 
but the faux satiation
of desert rain

see how
in desperation of unmet thirst
the desert grows thorns

know that
there is togetherness
beyond bodies
we are together and always will be
in spaces beyond
the reaches of flesh and its destiny

Earth's Love

even in the hardest
of droughts
earth never doubts
the sky's love
deep within cracks
seeds lie hidden
she waits to go green
with the first touch of rain

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Empty Boats

empty boats

on still waters

tethered for the night

at rest

from long day

of mating distant shores

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