| Tended
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2026-05-12
May the unfolding blossom in its seasons 🙏🕊️
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| What if…
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2026-05-12
An endless journey and fraught with torment for those that are overthinkers. And then realise that I am always where I'm at and where I've been since been marked the scent and footprints of yesterday's me.
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| A WELCOME PLACE TO BE
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2026-05-11
You said it! '🥂
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| Cathedral Shadows
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2026-05-11
A fractal of cheap religion, all with a slight alteration of venue. 🕊️🙏
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| Neu Ghosts Dancing Hymns of Light
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2026-05-07
🕊️🙏
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| Neu Ghosts Dancing Hymns of Light
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2026-05-07
Aww, that seems like a waste of interaction. Are they somehow like interrelated to medichlorians? Oh, to feel a thing... something. 🕊️🙏
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| Dying in my sleep
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2026-05-07
Superbly relatable🕊️🙏
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| The Beanstalk
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2026-05-07
Could sense a metaphoric possibility here. Most delightful read. 🕊️🙏
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| THE FRENCH HAVE A WORD FOR IT
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2026-05-07
'Pardon my French,' is the other line that goes around. At least in the movies. 🕊️🙏
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| Between each line
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2026-05-07
Imagine if it was centered! That would be so crazy🕊️🙏
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| Between each line
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2026-05-07
Imagine if it was centered! That would be so crazy🕊️🙏
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| NO INSPIRATION LEFT
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2026-05-07
You have kept writing, Alan and that's what counts.
And for the record, it isn't boring at all 🕊️🙏
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| In the Pale Light
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2026-05-06
A divulging of inner truths in verse🕊️🙏🏻
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| Free
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2026-05-06
Yup, that about sums it up neat and tidy like 🕊️🙏🏻
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| The Sun's Hard Cold-Roll
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2026-05-06
Never been to these places but I got a lay of the land here, and the silverfish and plantain seals the deal. There is something to do even if one were to embrace decomposing with open arms. A terrific read from your pen. 🕊️🙏
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| Room for thought
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2026-05-06
Let’s keep the lamps lit and the soul’s kindled 🙏🏻🕊️
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| No piece left behind
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2026-05-05
The last stanza just blew me away! Well done mickeko 🙏🕊️🤩
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| The way you can't love me
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2026-05-04
A gripping emotion and expression! 🕊️🙏
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| Past the midnight
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2026-05-04
Best time for it. I get out of bed and stay awhile and use a touchscreen so as not to make a clutter that would wake the household. 🕊️🙏
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| Past the midnight
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2026-05-04
Best time for it. I get out of bed and stay awhile and use a touchscreen so as not to make a clutter that would wake the household. 🕊️🙏
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| Kurkov
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2026-05-02
With that Kurkov is a quick and easy addition to any reading list🙏🏻🕊️
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| Lit Train
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2026-05-02
Brought me to memories of trains of skaters in neon-lit roller discoes 🪩🙏🏻🕊️
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| a winter story
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2026-05-02
An excellent read, like stepping into someone else’s world 🙏🏻🕊️
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| Water Resting Quiet
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2026-05-02
Reminds me of resurfacing, uplooking as the surface comes closer and the sky and the water are one of several hues of bluish green tones. Most enjoyed. 🙏🏻🕊️
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| lin sparkles
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2026-05-02
A picture of congenial happiness 🙏🏻🕊️
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| What Is This Moment?
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2026-05-01
Encapsulates my lifelong fight with mirrors. Superb expression, D. 🕊️🙏🤩
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| Silent Scream
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2026-04-30
Night terrors are quite the awful to go through. Hope all is better now 🕊️🙏
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| Reach Out
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2026-04-29
A very important thought in poetry 🕊️🙏
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| Look Up; Look Down
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2026-04-29
And look ahead to where both begin to meet! Amazing poem WH 🕊️🙏
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| The stillness among the waves
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2026-04-29
From the arc of waves back to stillness, beautiful🕊️🙏
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| The Truth Will Reveal (writing challenge)
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2026-04-29
A definite fun read and the meaning anchors it in the reading soul 🕊️🙏
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| MISFIT
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2026-04-29
I'm guessing that arriving at self-awareness is not a flaw but a sign of proprioception. In which case we are enabled to navigate more clearly and safely than before. Good stuff, dear Allen 🕊️🙏
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| my dreams
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2026-04-28
May the dreams continue on!
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| SOMETIMES
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2026-04-27
Your writing stays and that is a tangible legacy that connects us still when the detours come our way. A way to find each other still.
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| Kudzu
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2026-04-27
A very strong image and movement of when an introduced specie becomes a pest; kind of like the removal of apex predators and the ruin of the ecosystem (i.e., wolves and dingoes) could these be two sides of that same proverbial coin 🪙🕊️🙏🏻💪🏻
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| The Difference
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2026-04-27
Love this! Too many insular minds spouting theirness and very little usness; and everything’s none of our business but we’re always responsible for their happiness. A definite Fave 🙏🏻🕊️🤩
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| The Good Guy I Crossed Paths with Yesterday
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2026-04-27
It’s been awhile since something like that came my way but surely awesome when it does. Meanwhile, I try to pass it on and perhaps one day it shall come back around. Much enjoyed🙏🏻🕊️
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| I LIKE TO KEEP AN EYE ON YOU
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2026-04-27
It’s been a long while but worth the wait/weight. Good to read from your desk again 🙏🏻🕊️
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| The Pinnacle
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2026-04-26
Peregrines are majestic creatures; my inclination is toward kestrels which are homier but then again flight is lofty wherever it may be found. And that is an integral part of everyday adventures. Much enjoyed 🕊️🙏🙏
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| Like the Ripples in the Water
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2026-04-26
Such a gem, resplendent; in this stanza embodied:
"This Life is just
A ripple in the water,
Breath to Breath
Until the Death."
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| WHERE DREAMS ESCAPE
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2026-04-26
Where the travel bug leads, we follow! 🕊️🙏
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| NO RECALL
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2026-04-25
Oh, the exquisite reach of this poem, Allen! Some photographs I can't fully reconstruct in my head, the very same dilemma while others attest to a memory that is more vivid than the photo itself.
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| the circus
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2026-04-25
That's the envy right there, the clown's really got it good. 🕊️🙏
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| Damoclès
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2026-04-24
...the cord has been severed time and time again, Damocles is the modern day Prometheus, 🙏🕊️⚔️.
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| in a world of bad luck
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2026-04-24
Aren't they already in every grade 5 class onward?! 🙃😂🕊️🙏
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| letter to an old friend
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2026-04-23
belatedly to John/Max,
Max,
I hear the weight in what you’ve written, and I’m not going to argue with the choices you’ve made. You’ve lived through enough to know what you can and can’t carry right now. If stepping away from writing is what you need, then step away. No one earns peace by force.
But I want to offer you something to keep in your pocket for another time.
You talk about writing as if it’s a single version of you — the one who burns himself down to make something for others. Maybe that’s true of the self you are now. But people don’t stay fixed. You’ve already lived several lives, and you’ll live more. There may come a version of you who writes differently, who doesn’t bleed for every line, who doesn’t feel hollowed out by the work.
You don’t have to return to poetry as the man who left it.
You can return as someone else entirely.
Let the next self decide.
For now, travel, rest, rebuild whatever part of you still wants to be whole. The page isn’t going anywhere. It will wait for the version of you who can approach it without losing himself.
And if that version never comes, that’s fine too. Not every life circles back.
But if one day you find yourself pausing in some quiet place, feeling a sentence rise without pain, allow it. That will be the sign that a different self has arrived, one who can write without being consumed.
Until then, take care of the man you are now. He’s the one who needs you.
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| I AM A POET I AM AN ENTERTAINER EDUCATER MOTERVATER (ADDITANS)
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2026-04-23
That you are, dear friend. 🕊️🙏
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| discordant
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2026-04-22
The though-life and personal awareness is a companion we learn to live with or choose to disconnect from vigilantly. Some choose poetry🕊️🙏🏻
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| seasons
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2026-04-22
An exquisite garland! And a true pleasure🕊️🙏
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| May Light Flower
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2026-04-22
I guess we find out for sure when the fullness of time finally comes 🕊️🙏
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