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Coment on a Comet

28/8/2018

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We can naught be but what we are
Sayeth the comet unto the star
As they dance together in the endless beyond

Cosmic hummingbirds fluttering across the flowers of creation

Yet neither is my station and my light shines as but a brief flair
Incredibly
Wonderfully
Brief

Long enough to learn that to truly live is all too rare
and to die
  all too common

Our time spent on this blue rock we call home
Hurling through space at an alarming rate
Indisputable proof that anything can be normalized

rationalized

Doing our best to face down fear whilst always aware that our end is near

Do the stars feel fear?
Do they feel joy and pain?
Two sides of the same
Dancing through the dream till our comet runs out of steam and we hurtle to the ground as shooting stars

for some hopeful child to wish upon

Time not to waste
With the speed of the cosmos we must make haste
To create a better reality
A manifest destiny

Powerful manifesto
Changing without understanding
Faster than society arranging

out of control
IT ALWAYS WAS!

Do we control the coming of day?
Do we control our lives’ way?
Our perception only I say

I am a comet
Born of stars
That’s me

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Trust Fall

21/8/2018

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In the trust of your arms I fall
Like rains upon a parched earth
A cloud too full
I don't hide my cracks from you
Open and willing to fill
Seeping into the depth
Your arms hold me in their muddy softness
Sweet embrace of skin with skin
That reminds us of everything
And nothing
Here and now a kiss
A special word whispered or mumbled
It has been said before
Filling cracks with play dough
It is harder to wash away
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Quiet Canaries

8/8/2018

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Into the still fire of innocence
Burns the core of truth
Bitten into long ago

Freedom of fire and desire
Explodes from the heart
Seeds scattered on fertile soil

Last gasps for balance are
Swallowed by fear
Darkness holds the Mystery

In the crucible of night
Our eyes have no tricks to play
The unknown defines the dark

Yet the dark cannot hurt us
It is too much light
That leaves us blind

In the mines of self
Unheeded canaries go quiet
As the fires
Slowly
Extinguish

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The Death of Silence

5/8/2018

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The silence died quietly
It knew no other way
To fold itself into the origami of things that once were

Muffled cries that give no indication of what's to come

Our cells remember
A time before
Before cars
Before trains and planes
Before electric things
Their constant hum
The inescapable background noise of our era

Constant
Disruptive
Displacing
Replacing

Replacing the silence of wind in the trees
Replacing the silence of crickets
Replacing the silence of birds

It fades

For better
For worse
The quiet
Has gone
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    Douglas Karson

    I love poetry.

    It can be whimsical or epic, unbearably long or just two memorable lines, mature and dark or light and childish.

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