Published: 2 May 2025

immortality

you must be far removed
from the world of life and death
to think about
immortality

there’s a lot we don’t know
about immortality
but someone’s going to try

when it does arrive
it will be too late
those who should have lived forever
will have died, and with them, the blesséd
past that most deserves
to live again and again

all of its limitless possibilities
before the making of enough
money to discover immortality
now, laments begun
the end of adventure over

long ago
the curse the gods
visited upon mortals
who would do anything
that the pain of immortality
disappear
because gods are invulnerable
humans are not

immortality should be
thought of as a disease
maybe a tragic flaw
no amount of time can heal
the only cure, an incapacity
to feel pain

surely someone will try

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add to ourselves
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define ourselves
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our errors
our foolishness

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The first dilemma the seeker of truth must face,
how will I know which rock is mine, which is best,
my spirit rock, the one meant to be my guide?

These are legitimate questions, but misleading.
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Dear home, gales have unseated us

Dear home, gales have unseated us, great winds blown
our ships from their moors, laid crops low in the fields
before harvest, undone all we sought to do, as if to prove
Nature allows no equity, only superiority.

Part of my human condition

I think about suicide daily
Not as an alternative
But part of my human condition
That reflects me as I reflect upon it

Spring blessing

Robins have made a home in our backyard.
Today, an old fat one lights upon the row
of potted nasturtiums
I placed upon the wall of the garden bed.
Light plastic pots filled with weightless potting soil,
he hops one to the other,

Charlie Chaplin

The clown does Shakespeare
and we laugh.

Hidden waif, tortured reader,
stolen son, serious child,

why do we howl when you misbehave,
cry, when you are kind?

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to be yourself

to be yourself

we refine ourselves
add to ourselves
through acts of kindness
help others
share love

define ourselves
through sorrows
our errors
our foolishness

read more
The meaning of rocks

The meaning of rocks

The first dilemma the seeker of truth must face,
how will I know which rock is mine, which is best,
my spirit rock, the one meant to be my guide?

These are legitimate questions, but misleading.
One must ask what will lead me to my rock?

read more

Dear home, gales have unseated us

Dear home, gales have unseated us, great winds blown
our ships from their moors, laid crops low in the fields
before harvest, undone all we sought to do, as if to prove
Nature allows no equity, only superiority.

read more

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