| All My Sorrys
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2026-07-03
"It's just another goodbye,"
that seems to be where it's all at! 🙏🕊️
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| Care
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2026-07-03
Care
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| Li Po Hut
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2026-07-03
A simple place to be, YES!
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| The road home
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2026-07-03
The trip home can be like that on repeat after stalled periods of time loaned to others. Even if the drive was only 15 minutes from work. Most relatable.
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| religious energy is supposed to cling people together
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2026-07-03
Poor against rich and rich against poor the mind can grasp and to some extent rich against rich. But poor against poor? That is the saddest state of all. It would seem.
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| Building new things with old things
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2026-07-03
Perhaps it's old money asserting its established self?
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| ARTISTS - ARE ETERNAL
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2026-07-03
Ergo, the artist that is not creating is not fuelling the shine of their eternal flame/stellar constellation...
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| colin sends word from north carolina
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2026-06-27
The tree frogs songs make it all worth it!
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| Hope is a Vampire
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2026-06-27
When hope is a fluid, internal projection-based on "what ifs," it acts like a vampire that drains our energy and blinding us to a toxic reality just to keep an illusion alive. However, when hope is an externally sourced, unshakeable assurance, it becomes a fixed anchor that gives us the steady resolve to face the truth and protect our well-being. The light to the vampire, so to speak. A very engaging read 🙏🕊️👍🏻🤩
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| evening
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2026-06-25
the moments where we live in and come alive
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| TRAITS I DO NOT WANT
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2026-06-24
Oh, my Allen. So relatable and sure the nuanced differences still allow for empathetic communion.
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| Monster
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2026-06-22
That a most moving and sorrowful state that quite a few have experienced in their nuances uniquenesses. Having seen the latest Frankenstein flick (Oscar Isaac) has also added layers to this read.
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| And If I Continued On to Paradise?
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2026-06-21
Is there ever such a place of profound peace that would inspire us to create endlessly or leave us so fulfilled/ruined that we no longer feel the need to create at all? You would have told us now that you've continued on, in your own unique way. R.I.P.
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| A Daily Occurrence
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2026-06-21
Love the double entendre of the blinding light.
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| tropezarse (meaning to stumble in Spanish)
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2026-06-16
Now there is a fun read!
(of course, having Spanish under the belt makes it more fun!
no cierto?!)
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| The Template
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2026-06-16
Pillage and plunder! Now there is a more likely image. 🙏🕊️
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| Dissoci(h)ate
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2026-06-14
It sure mixes together different patterns of rhyme.
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| Suno
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2026-06-13
The flow and the meaning are fluid and moving like the river of verse that issue from your pen. Much enjoyed.
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| Worm Killer
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2026-06-13
This hit me like a visceral dream sequence. Most gripping!
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| Unbridled thoughts
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2026-06-13
Your humour still shines through, Alan!
Thoroughly enjoyed 🙏🕊️👍🏻
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| Unbridled thoughts
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2026-06-13
Your humour still shines through, Alan!
Thoroughly enjoyed 🙏🕊️👍🏻
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| The Tyger
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2026-06-12
An overnight nocturnal safari, perhaps? Imagine the insurance expense and the blood pressure pills! It was brought to my attention that most prey won’t see orange but green with leafy frond black stripes… now there’s a camouflaged predator!
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| Land Of Blue Smoke
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2026-06-12
Drove through and around there a couple of times and it is breathtaking, in spite of the jetlag and the overstimulation of the whole traveling experience.
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| Defiance
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2026-06-12
mache? 😊🕊️
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| Superlative, What?
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2026-06-12
New goal: achieve graceful unrefinedness. And the new year is half year away, still! 😊🙏🕊️
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| The Unmagnificent Lives of Adult Men
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2026-06-12
Dreams are free to acquire and hold on to, but Reality is the whole other thing that stunts the outward appearance making it seem that dreams have no resilience. So feel, this poem! 👍🏻🕊️
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| Collectively singular
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2026-06-11
Indeed! The interior collective proves a cacophonous crowd.
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| Green
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2026-06-11
My fave of yours, thus far!
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| A Sad Rival-less Poet's Balladry
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2026-06-11
And when the correspondence does occur it is often quite fleeting and later on proves to be an illusion of sorts. (sigh)
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| Rorschach
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2026-06-08
Part of poetry's process is how readers manufacture/perceive/construct meaning from what poems present. Good stuff.
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| Crocodile Tears
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2026-06-08
As will ours in the greater scheme of things.
What leaves do we reach for while mortgages and dysfunctional relationships garrotte our necks? Laurels? Mint? Tobacco?
We make the most of it for the knife is sharpened on the butcher's block. Nice one, S!
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| The Failed Mission
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2026-06-05
Reminds me of my grandmother, her life brought poetry to my soul.
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| I’m Thinking of Ending Things
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2026-06-05
Still falls the rain
the well remains filled
Still fills the pain
the ink is never chilled
IV is flowing in open mic
of it there's much to like
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| Summer Fondles
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2026-06-05
Someone's prepared for Summer!
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| Devil's Dictionary Addendum (CHALLENGE ENTRY)
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2026-06-01
I think that Bierce would approve, hands down.
But I also like that it reflects your individual voice as well.🕊️🙏
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| license to kill: an hubris ?
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2026-06-01
documented legal ownership, probably not but political and ideological ownership... now therein lies the operative definition of power and kinetic energy.
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| how arts are pondering me !
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2026-05-31
..."the eye of the beholder," as it has often been said
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| all united
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2026-05-31
Much agreed Albert!🕊️🙏
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| Daggers
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2026-05-31
Brings a thought that people spite themselves in spite of themselves. But I may be way off base here. Still enjoyed 🕊️🙏
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| POETRY IS STRANGE
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2026-05-30
Here I see that the mind cannot be disembodied to be manifest, both body and mind need each other so as to bring a physical presence. You are an inspiration, Alan. Your fight is our victory. 🙏🕊️
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| Afar
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2026-05-30
Why not! Irresistibility is all around us🕊️🙏
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| Had to say something
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2026-05-29
Like an achoo!
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| Pillars
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2026-05-29
Very good to think about. I love the word "parallax" and how it operates in existence and awareness. Most thoroughly enjoyed🕊️🙏
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| Abattoir Memoire
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2026-05-27
Hard hitting stuff here!
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| Fellow Poets of Poetbay
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2026-05-25
This confirms the contemporaneous seasonality of structured poetry; of which I suspect are still being written but not nearly posted up as often for fear of being burnt yet again. The archive is filling with mothballed and never been aired poems of such form and raiment.🕊️🙏
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| SIMPLE ACTS OF BALANCE
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2026-05-25
When the part of the string arose in this poem it brought me back to dad's after service, we were gathering quietly at the front lawn. we all had red helium balloons floating from strings, in hour hands. At someone's signal, his favourite song playing in the background, we released and watched them float away, the texture of string pulling away, free, was and still is a sensory memory.
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| when the accent betrays you
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2026-05-24
I should think the accent as a dignifying garment rather than a betrayal. It makes you unique and interesting; distinguished. Not artificial or made up.🙏🕊️
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| The Fantasy life of Poetry and Crime
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2026-05-24
Curious how we present and how we are perceived/received don’t always line up. 🙏🏻🕊️
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| A MONOGAMY OF MARRIAGE.
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2026-05-24
Now that's sharp and a bit tart! Good to see you this morning 🙏🕊️
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| Day, Life, Flow
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2026-05-22
Perhaps, both a day and a life can be imagined as vast, slow, and fragile Feldman-like structures of perception, yet ultimately, they remain only partially knowable, always ending in “perhaps.” 🙏🕊️
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