introspection
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Who Do I Have to Thank?
Who do I have to thank for this newfound spirit, unearthed me from the grave, reminded me to do it? I camped right at the base but never topped the mountain. Imagined but never drank from the holy fountain. Continue reading
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New Year’s Confession
The failure of my debut novel and two other books put my writing career to a halt. For a year or two, I wouldn’t admit it. It took a lot financially, mentally, and emotionally to get to a point where I was pursuing my dream instead of just ‘living.’ Not seeing the results I wanted… Continue reading
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Run Further
Scars and wounds of your generation / Gifts from ancestors with no permission / Hurt your upbringing, made you neurotic / A strange dependence, calm and chaotic Continue reading
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Perhaps One in a Million (Haiku Series Volume 1)
here’s a haiku thread perhaps one in a million but I say, “why not?” Continue reading
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The Violet Fire and the Dance in the Rain
When you destroy a person’s self-esteem, no matter how big or small, there is no street left for him to go to but Death Avenue. When he gets there, he has two choices: stay there for good or find a way out. Continue reading
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Xentheos
From the outside’s a fortress of gloomed apathy But the inside is flowing, deepest of the seas. For thou can be felt, ne-ver to be seen. The guard of the cosmos unfettered me. Continue reading
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Xenflexio
No burn marked my neck as a shower of flames fell from the sadistic heaven. I expected to be seared but nothing of the sort occurred. Heaven’s wrath didn’t terrify me, for I knew the flames were illusion like the paradise that they promised. So I ran away from it all and I told myself… Continue reading
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Xenanimus
The flock, wayside, called the sheep. With men, in fun, sharing sleep. From there, they jeered, mocking me. Nothing, they know, pacifies me. Continue reading
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Xenkissos
His name I didn’t know. I wanted to ask. I yearned to know so I can utter it under my breath ten times. No make that a hundred, or a thousand, or a million. A name is a powerful thing. When it’s owned by someone important in our life, someone so significant, someone who had… Continue reading
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