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02262018 - my heart of fullest love

the softest spring cloud i've kissed reaches you, a raging storm. i am sorry

for how it broke on you, sweethome

where I found happiness

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swadhi in Poetry & Free Verse

all day breakfast

how morning turns 

cheeks tart like apples

and chatter into ghosts;

how snow dusts cold

March mud puddles and powder dusts

questions caught in wrinkles

of a lady's smile; how 

we say goodbye, no more

than squirrels that dash through parking lots;

how a tree's stiff branches still wave at the gray sun,

how i feel,

and how the man in the elevator uses his dog to break 

a world of ice. 

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011117

I am so many

feelings, each a grain

of sand left by

this winding-through-me-day;

I am a pile of it,

and years in a smile,

a frown, the minute

it takes to rub my eyes of

tiredness; I am centuries

and the mountains they 

build, and this poem

that cannot possibly say it all, 

that is bursting forever with everything. 

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swadhi in Micropoetry

october

I collect masks, laughs 

like jittering candles, death

gasps of branches - 

a wind brings crystals in the night. 

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10142016 dream

Something that gleams 

in the hot bath water, sparks, 

and my jerking thighs. 

                                   You, falling

          from my lolling tongue and 

                 quiet of cooling smoke.

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092616

yellow evening wedging

into the gloom - a lemon slice, 

hints of light this heavy

autumn day

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swadhi

I'm a twitch

of rage, a pinch

of anger, puckered

like a volcano, erupting

a moment or two.

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Periods (ongoing)

bent double, I birth

islands floating 

red across the warm

bath water

twisting papaya

threads; a split 

and gutted fruit

days like a single moaning

wave pass me, nudging

i swallow an ocean this way, gulp gulp

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swadhi

musing

Want me, explode me. Splatter my bones

on museum walls. Worship me - 

lips, rosebuds never blooming; eyes, winter 

sky diamonds. Never know me, but 

speak of me, dream of me, embalm me

like the 'i'  in 'extraordinary' - a syllable you 

swallow to make it work - and call it love. 

Challenge
Prose Challenge of the Week #41: Write about change through chaos. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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091712 when I went silent

You knew me

once, the once- 

I. I 

knew her

too - 

her two eyes charged with

violent sunlight

were mine. I remember violence. I remember

breaking

lines but now I shatter words -

I cling to thoughts wrung out I try to

climb the rungs up, out

I try to shout, but the hand slips. 

I'm a tongue tripping up, I watch

the motion of lips

gibbergabbering. 

My ears are

old. My fingerprint

decays. I delay. 

I've got nothing left to say.