more of me than i’d know or remember

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"Poems are not written...", Andrey Voznesensky (translated by metamorphesque)

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desired by many

taken by none

understood by few

guided by One

hardened by nature

softened by love

as so below

so as above

— merry meet, merry part, & merry meet again

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Never compete

never compare

always content

always aware.

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Brief Poems, Vera Pavlova

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There are still places in which you can pour yourself without any purpose nor cause nor intention nor plan and that in itself is an ignition for a strange sort of grace that extends beyond circumstance.

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It’s something of a recurrent renaissance to romanticize - if not capitalize on - the ways in which we cope with guilt, shame, despair, dejection, etc.

I talk often with colleagues how we’re living in a time that may as well be considered a historic pinnacle. What if archeologists hundreds of years in the future regarded us in the same light we regard the world’s pyramids, Tesla’s coil, and pre-colonial medicine?

I used to be in awe of historic renaissances, but from a place of wishing to be there, not here; when there may be some brown-eyed trauma-stricken bookworm aching for the current one we reside in 300 years in the future.

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“Come over, she’s cooking tonight,”

– a love letter

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Blaming others for my baggage is akin to yelling at someone because I have this heavy luggage of unread letters addressed solely to me. Now I can understand why it’s said to carry oneself with grace. I can acknowledge that slow, individually curated pace that’s said to come with opening oneself up.

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some call it antiquing others call it time traveling

some call it history others call it myth

some call it prayer others call it manifestation

some call it a pattern others call it a prophecy

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When I was younger I collected things I can hold

Now that I’m getting older I find myself collecting more things that I can’t like

Stories about childhood

Sunlight

Jokes over coffee

Presence

Observing love being exchanged

Catch-up conversations

Time for being unproductive

Time for being hella productive

Discipline

Smiles, waves, and bows

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fyodor dostoevsky (the brothers karamazov), charles bukowski (a vote for the gentle light)

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czesław miłosz, from the poem "hope"

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i imagine the tower of babel to be more of a multi subdivision hotel with gated accesses to secret buildings that are somehow both on and off site, rather than like, the tower of pisa

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arithmetic has an incredible sense of humor.

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Japan trip, 2023

A small fraction

2/2

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Japan trip, 2023

A small fraction

1/2

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The reconciliation between imagination and reality

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Daydreaming about houses overgrown with climbing plants