Refelections on Life
By kaycee
Poems about living
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The Unbearable Sadness of Ruins
First sighted cresting a northern sea swell, it emerges from the haze of a radiant May morning, banded silver and white, striped green and gold; a semi-mythical Misty Isle hung between sea and sky.
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20th Century Love Song
Shall I sing to you of my desire, the need for loving,
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Alpetraum
Waking in the night's deep darkness,
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Angels’ Wings (In memory of Ivo Andrić)
When Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, created this world, It was a perfect sphere, as smooth and unblemished as its ideal. But, while the earth was still damp and soft
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Anniversary
Soon, as the sun rises from the sea on the dawn of my birth day, I will visit my father's grave again.
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Apologia
Unbidden you fill my secret dreams recalling all those painful scenes.
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Brief Encounter
She slid into the corner of my eye
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Card Zero
I'm standing within what I need to find with eyes bound with blindness.
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Childhood's End
I drown these days in memories of lives I have never lived.
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Day of Reckoning
Slow grown from a fiery birth to become a cradle of life amidst endless empty worlds
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Death Dreaming
Two and a half score years into my allotted span.
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Echoes
Don’t you just despair of those echoes of some long-forgotten love,
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Inspiration
Slow and secret it slides down moonlight
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Virgin Dreams of Vampire
A shadow from the shadows, he steps into the neon light, but casts no shadow.
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Weekend Party People
Sweet child in time I watch you drowning in the subtle poisons of your generation, trapped in your desperate dance to paradise.
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Robots
Such sights to see with so blind eyes; So many sounds to hear through these shrunken ears;
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The Meaning of Life
Perhaps we are but short, single notes in the great symphony of evolution;
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Nightmares
What dark tales arise in the midnight hour; stories to raise the hair on the bravest head.
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Libran Lament
Hanging, as ever, between the hammer and the anvil.
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The Quantum Mechanic Blues
If I am here and not here, now and not now, where and when am I?
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Eye Slavery
Gorgeous in Green and Gold in the candle’s warm glow,
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Lost Keys
Tonight, beneath a roofless sky, I will have the time to teach myself the lessons I should have learned long before this sorry plight.
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Storm Rider
Falling asleep on a Sunday night, drowned in the sounds of an incessant eighteen hour rain, I dream of a great flood.
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The Fractured Man
Fractured from conception; fallen from Singularity into this illusion of loneliness; how could I be anything other than a man of many parts?
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Fear of Flying
Stop to think and you wake to the nightmare; trapped in a narrow, neon-lit tube, wrapped in vibration and tortured air
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Everlasting Love
They stepped from the shadowed alley onto the rain grayed cobbles of the square as the sun danced through a rent in the lowering cloud.
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Summer Breeze - In loving memory of Mike
Born with a bit of the blarney stone between your teeth, the jester in your genes; you charmed the world with laughter. Disarmed it with your love of life,
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Endgame I
Not for me the long slow romantic drama of the guttering candle. The genteel fade into darkness. Nor the painful slavery to machines and medicines. I would go out like a light.
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The Uncertainty of Being
Life as light bends to the will of gravity, the ever-expanding wave of being warping the weft of existence. While the interfering particles children...
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