Tagged: awakening

the day arrives like

the day arrives like
any other, birds in the
courtyard, answering

to time, mother nature, while
playing tricks on the active mind
.
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some days, we are face-

six-forty-five and

in the middle of

in the middle of
the night, drip, drip, drip – the brain
attaches itself,

logging on, tapping in, waiting
for the next awakening drip
.
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sometimes comfort food

it happens to four

it happens to four
out of five, an awakening
that concept should take

precedence only sparingly
in art, another A-plus
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: precedence

perhaps we are merely

perhaps we are merely
one hundred thousand
chickens
away from
combating poverty
and injustice
and instability
and racism
and disease
and hunger
and hate
and loss
and mortality –
the chicken
or the egg
.
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there is a bit of

there is a bit of
you that takes me
out of me –
that’s what it
boils down to –
an awakening
that is more like
a peeling away
.
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sunday walks across

sunday walks across
the ceiling in sequined
shoes, size two, with
the regular irregularity
of a juvenile dog’s pitter-
patter trailing from
not far behind her
.
i am barely awake,
listening for a
toddler-sized tumble
.
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within the realm of

within the realm of
impossibility, we
are all called to dream –

let me be a part of yours
as you are a part of mine
.
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