February 2010
36 posts
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“Even the people who see the truth will doubt it a fair amount of times before...”
– Nicole Marie Fraticelli
January 2010
10 posts
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two thousand per second
Starry dandelion fish
Collapsible in lieu of catastrophes
Malleable like sand sculptures
& brittle as the thought of sun
Oh seraphim,
your sordid songs
& your smile moves mountains
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fading portraits
Stuck on a piece of sky.
The clouds today
drag me along.
Waiting for daylight to break in
and attack, for the clouds
to come back.
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Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Where did I leave my heart today?
Taken away perhaps by
pink elephants.
Left behind after long, sleepless nights.
“Did I give it away?”
Of course, no one knows.
But I can’t get used to living without,
living without it by my side.
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the familiar thoughts of morning
Absent today is
the sunshine of the 60’s
We do have our suns
Their warmth
powers the coffee
that drives
our fading systems
Then we fall in line,
pick a spot,
and wait.
As our eyes begin to fail us,
we notice the time we spent
waiting, was only wasted
if our eyes were closed.
Just give us back the sunshine
and we can wander
through the universe again.
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strange fascination with our yellow skies
Along the lines of time
we skip rope with the minutes
when no one is watching.
A silence, agony!
There is too much to be said
before the lights are gone
and the clocks deceive us.
From now on we sleep on rocks
and bathe in the suns.
Still the clocks are ticking.
Into lizard states of mind
we can hope to arrive,
as we rearrange these numbers
that lie motionless on the wall.
What a...
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“Victor Hugo said that emergencies have always been necessary for progress. I see...”
– Nicole Marie Fraticelli
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“There can be no peace now, we realize, but a common peace in all the world; no...”
– HG Wells
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“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we...”
– William Butler Yeats