Tagged: listening

perhaps one out of

perhaps one out of
five succulents survives
our carelessness, nurtured
by a lifetime
of looking
without seeing,
hearing
without listening
.
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when everything is

when everything is
a debate, there is no dialogue
and less, even less

learning – we cannot stretch until
we have learned how to listen
.
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in the presence of

in the presence of
the majesty of the whole,
possibilities

reveal themselves – not i, nor you,
not they, but we, reimagined
.
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more and more, there are

exhaustion pulls you

exhaustion pulls you
away from the station faster
than anything else –

one moment, we are listening,
the next, we are asleep, dreaming
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: exhaustion

my mom and i take

we were in the car,

we were in the car,
listening to The Cranberries,
like every third or
twenty-third newly and
nearly newly coupled,
lovestruck or not yet
requited, waiting
to grow older
while sitting
in the parking
lot of the universe –
Dolores felt like forever
.
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every moment curls

because there is no

this afternoon, you

this afternoon, you
remarked that bach
was a little
sad, one ear in, and
one ear out
of those complex
harmonic progressions,
cables tangled
.
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