Change Has Occurred

This time will be different
For now you don’t know
What you bring with you

You don’t know what you seek
Or how you might seek it
Except that contemplation

Yes, contemplating, meditating
That might help, and yes
The writing is a good contribution

So simply to be aware
To take notes, to write down
All of the possibilities

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All Of The Why

Why be here
Why be drawn
To reflect on that time
Of thirteen years ago

Except that
That you believe that that time
Changed you
Took away some of your angst

They let you talk, let you play
Let you become someone
Who for so so long
You had forgotten to be

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Trappist

Cool cool water
Seasonal salad
Mother and daughter
With an Irish ballad

Through black Black Mountain
To pools so still
A spider in the fountain
The end of your rill

Out through the window
On the lightest of breezes
Lay your love low
Take care of the creases

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Stitching Detector

At the halfway point
Of Section One
The thinning line
In the weakest font

As if the rage does burn
When the one door closes
At the turn of the tide
Bless the blight of the roses

Still I go, slow and sure
Into the deeper obsession
Trapped; so wild, so pure
Without doubt, or oppression

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Dining Room (Nearby)

The noise picks up
As lunchtime begins
The gong surely sounds
For the love you bring

The queues slowly shuffle
As the trolleys pass by
Conversations start to rustle
As the poets quietly sigh

And still you avoid
The everyday invitation
Your words without shape
Are hurtful to creation

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