Thank you very much to Mark Antony Rossi of Ariel Chart for publishing three of my poems in August.

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The Unworkable Puzzle?

 

When introspection goes awry.

Rumination,

the thinking tease of deep consideration,

scratching the brain.

 

The wrecked development of once lucid plans

by poisonous clumps of stacked thoughts, piled askew,

compulsive spiral schemes developed

to bring forth mad truths that are not actually truths. 

 

Or,

indecisive trudges back and forth, 

born of buzzing restlessness.

 

Or,

Repeated attendance

to details that were already long concluded,

readdressed,

now once again not completed.

 

Caustic enticements, 

obsessive notions held tightly by meshed rigor.

Weedy stragglers,

clogging passageways of thought,

strengthening obstacles, 

and causing withering deflation to what might work.

 

We must find our way 

past becoming redundant, sullen customers 

in the shops of sorrow,

selling cloaks of collective misery,

while brooding on negative events.

 

We must stop and weigh

all our options for moving forward,

close doors to what has never worked,

pull all other choices into the light of day,

so that no more doubts can be obscured by shadows.

Forgiveness Within The Web

 

Remember those

who forgave 

you,

and know that

your own act 

of forgiveness 

will

make you 

immortal.

This is the heroism

of losing

personal ego,

and

of you

remembering not to allow

the web 

to thrum 

with your own 

vibrating enmity.

A Completed Person

 

Religion to scare us,

the Devil to snare us,

God only loves you if you’re good.

 

Original sin,

Do you only believe in

the diamond glint of angel wings?

 

There’s two sides to the coin.

It’s important to join

the nice you,

and the naughty you together.

 

A completed person

makes a better version,

which we all can understand.