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Category: . Contemplative
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Category: . Contemplative

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True Tide

True Tide

Coast of perfect bays, all night the harbor widens between us; as we sleep the continents change address. I sail …

 #Evan Fowler #loneliness #longing #seeking #separation
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. Contemplative / Change / Death / Legend / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme
On the Wings of a Fly

On the Wings of a Fly

In the flower that wilts by the pane looking out On the garden that nurtured its bud; In the carrion …

 #decomposition #ecosystem #regeneration #Sarah van der Pas
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. Contemplative / . Mystical / Free Verse
The Prophet

The Prophet

They squabble and spit to defend beliefs clashing on spiritual frontiers, no true script but the audacity of fools leaking …

 #change #desert #Lea Knowles #prophet #wisdom
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. Contemplative / . Peaceful / Metrical / Rhyme
In Between

In Between

So, here I stand amid the briny surge That jostles surf upon the shore, Review another breaker’s jade converge With …

 #beach #David L. Hatton #metaphor
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. Contemplative / Free Verse
Shepherd

Shepherd

Now you will shepherd lost things and they will follow you through every airport, crowd every interview, every dinner, every …

 #clutter #Evan Fowler #release #temporal
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. Contemplative / . Pensive / Free Verse
Porcelain Manger

Porcelain Manger

November Last time I stuffed a turkeyyou were sucking a burnt pinkyconfiding secrets about Uncle Carland reminding me of the importance of …

 #Christmas #Tabitha Isbell
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. Contemplative / . Peaceful / Metrical / Rhyme
All is Calm

All is Calm

Though headlines clamor, voices blare and bitter arguments abound in every fearful sector where the chaos of the world is …

 #calm #Christmas #Mary Boren #peace #snow
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. Contemplative / Free Verse
Entourage

Entourage

I could let them all go, the letters pencilshands and scheming numerals;only they and I would feel a difference.I would …

 #Evan Fowler #inner peace #monkey mind
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