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16 Dec 2024
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Uprising


In totality
the impending fury
becomes unstoppable
until nothing is left in its wake

when lies parade the streets
as truths
marching in lockstep with hypocrisy
it’s only a matter of time
before conversations expand
exponentially
clawing at and ripping apart
said supposed truths

and so the forest fire starts
as a single spark
long before the inevitable
is about to take place
taking down
in an instant
that which was thought to be
forever sustainable


december two thousand twenty-four
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Posted in Poetry, War Poems and tagged , , , ,
08 Feb 2020
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burning out brightly


you can feel it
it’s called momentum
and it seems to be feeding off of you

every so often I find myself
learning something new
like casus belli or two half hitches
and suddenly I feel your momentum
beginning to build all over again
like a locomotive
barreling through the night sky
its single beam headlamp
like a supermoon cutting through clouds
neither near nor far all at the same time

it’s past midnight
and the stillness of the air awakens me
not the lonely cry of the wild
not the single lamppost burning




february two thousand twenty
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Posted in Poetry and tagged , ,
11 Sep 2019
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momentum


there was no prophecy
future events unfolding surrealistically
captivating a connected world
only seconds earlier impassive

smoke and heat and fire
building upon its own propulsion
like an early morning spark
innocently lit within an otherwise
booby-trapped concrete stairwell

which way to run
which way to stop or go
wifi no longer of use
no signal no nothing
a voice inside says
drop everything and run

this is no map to follow
vertical tunnel without exit signs
traffic cops on the outside
helplessly looking in
right arm circling crazily
all on foot having the right of way
from this point forward




september two thousand nineteen
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Posted in In the City, Poetry and tagged , ,

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