Stars Up There
He Who Walks Alone Walks With Many
Stars Up There
Stars—
Stars up there
In a cold heaven.
Dying lights.
Sparkling beacons of loneliness?
When we look closer
We find them surrounded
By stars—stars up there.
They were not alone.
They just shined the brightest.
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Organized Chaos
Are there personality disorders,
Or only personalities?
Disorder lies
In our futile,
Infantile, facile,
Febrile attempts
To control our own chaos
Using the rubric
Of social convention
As an ideological filter.
Are there any personalities
Or only personality disorder?
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The Screaming Distance
The creaking trees. Wind torn. Bend but don’t break… until you break. The screaming distance. Highway white noise intrudes on wooded darkness. It’s the sound of a god dying, every so often interrupted by the brazen stillness.
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Endurance
Love
Sustains us
When we must
Willfully Endure
Pain.
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The Riddle of Steel
It’s always the power of the collective flesh against the strength of the individual will. The answer to the riddle of steel:
Strength lies not in the sword, but in the will of the one who wields it.
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Whatever
“Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s,”
Remarked some savior,
“And unto God what is God’s.”
I have two middle fingers,
And I pay in full every day.
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HE WHO WALKS ALONE WALKS WITH MANY
I walk alone, for sometimes that is what men must do. Battles—lost or won—leave our hearts full of the glory of the fallen. They are always with us. I need no promise of an afterlife or utopian future to urge me on. These hands, this heart, this mind, this will—they are the only things that are real in the scattered waste I call the world—shaping an existence that never dies. Thus, and only thus, do we become immortal.
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Comments (5)
Your ability to put human nature under the microscope in poetic form is absolutely amazing.
Wonderful words, and I love the collection - and the contemplation of personality caught me - fascinating, really - and a question I am currently dealing with.
I definitely saw myself in many of these lines! Beautiful work- I love this sort of mixture/mashup you have going on here. The shifts were actually wonderfully refreshing, a delightful little adventure through deep dark thought. Bravo!
A great series of poems! I enjoyed them all.
That's how I look at the world too, as scattered waste. I wasn't expecting so many poems and proses. My favourites are Organic Chaos, Endurance and He Who Walks Alone Walks With Many. Fantastic work!