December 2010
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Fin.
Back from my travels with worn soles, an easy heart, and the strength of miles.
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Animated
I can feel the song moving inside me, with me, and acting through me.
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Noctem
The midnight curtain shrouds the world of the sleepers in ebony cloth.
Notes
And with that my last full month is done(ish).
I have 3 more days until the anniversary of when I began this 365 project and I’ll be writing these last 3 poems in the same style as I began: haikus.
Afterwards, I’ll be spending a lot of my time focusing on reviewing, editing, and preparing the last year’s worth of writings for my book. This unfortunately means that I...
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Chimera
As promised, I am now going to explain in detail the style which I have been trying to create this month.
First, the form I was used changed over this month as I tried different things. The first few poems were single or four-verse rhyming Quatrains. Following that I experimented with free-styles. I ended the month writing something which was a cross between a multi-verse Quatrain and a...
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Haven
I see a sea of light.
A rolling wave of luminaries gathering as tributaries together in one place as a well-spring of grace.
Rising up, ever higher - a golden, glowing, holy spire, climbing up the sky beyond the limits of my eye.
And burning at the very core was one who could be nothing more than some noble deity who gestured and called out to me,
“You are welcome here.”
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Impressions
When I met you on that night.
I couldn’t stop thinking about how you’d touch my arm or face. How softly would you do it? What patterns would you trace?
I kept looking down at the gap between each finger wondering if I took your hand how long the warmth would linger.
What did I do? It was easy to choose when I had more to win than to lose.