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rear-ender – January 5

Posted on January 8, 2017 by landl30

1.5.2107

The car hits.

shock to the

systems

what am I

feeling

where did my

brain go.

fuzzy vistas.

a result or

just more of

the usual at

my age.

when we have

alzheimers,

how the heck

will we know.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged accidents, cars, damage, questiions, shock, time, unclarity, unease | 1 Comment

flows – January 3

Posted on January 3, 2017 by landl30

1.3.2017

the locker room

overflows

with good intentions

until February

when they flow

out.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged commitments, intentions, resolutions | Leave a comment

new year’s tweet – December 31

Posted on January 1, 2017 by landl30

12.31.2016

a mean little voice

sounds out,

so petty for someone

aspiring to an office

so high.

a tiny tinny

heart,

of a wounded

whining blubbering

boy.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged littleness, meanness, nastiness, pathetic, politics, sadness | Leave a comment

fixin’s – December 27

Posted on December 30, 2016 by landl30

12.27.2016

stuff’s breaking

down more now

he said,

old cars

degrading

piece by piece

‘till you wonder

if or when the

motor’s gonna

and it’ll be no longer

worth putting

the money in

to fix ‘er up.

we’re talking

about cars now,

right?

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Posted in poetry | Tagged aging, allusions, bodies, conversation, friends, repairs, things | Leave a comment

gifties -December 26

Posted on December 28, 2016 by landl30

12.26.2016

christmas eve

with so many

gifties

when what we’re

all looking for

is just the

one.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged desires, dreams, enough, gifts, goals, heart, needs | Leave a comment

christmas 2016

Posted on December 24, 2016 by landl30

12.24.2016

In quiet moments a child

is born

into a world raging

with

confusion, fear,

and lines

of dread.

only a gift from

outside

can still the hearts

within.

Christmas 2016

Len Freeman

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Posted in poetry | Tagged Christ, fear, Gift, hope, inside, intervention, noel, outside, pain, terrors, world | Leave a comment

procedure – December 20

Posted on December 23, 2016 by landl30

12.20.2016

it’ll hurt like hell.

thanks doctor

I reply.

only five seconds

but it’ll hurt.

so I say go ahead

and grit

and while I wait for

it to get worse

it’s over.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged anticipation, anxiety, endurance, momentary, pain, persistence, surprise | Leave a comment

lying fallow – December 18

Posted on December 21, 2016 by landl30

12.18.2016

a lying fallow afternoon,

nothing of import

to do but breathe

which should be

enough.

for dog whose

nose lies on the

floor

it is a full day’s

work

and cat seems

to have perfected

the art

at great ease.

I’m having

trouble

with it.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged animal, anxiety, attention, being, dissonance, human, moment, quiet, respite, stress, urgency | Leave a comment

christmas village – December 15

Posted on December 17, 2016 by landl30

12.15.2016

christmas village

china setting

house, school, church

standing inn and

fence, skaters and

choir, around a

wiring tree

and the remembrances

of places not really

past, yet

visioned in our

mind’s eye

as where we would

have wished

to have been.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged Christmas, dreams, images, memory, wishes, yearnings | Leave a comment

snow blue – December 13

Posted on December 14, 2016 by landl30

12.13.2016

snow blue in the

moonlight

sparkling disney

card brightness

as if unreal in

contrasts

of crisp blacks

and whites

so real

that eyes flare

and cheeks flex

in the grin of

sheer joy

the gift of being

alive to see and

breathe in

what dreams and

pictures are made

of.

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Posted in poetry | Tagged experience, joy, Magic, moments, moonlight, perception, snow, visions, Winter | Leave a comment