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✮ Lady Green Sat on a Cob ✮

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✮ Tissue Rolls, Dirty Couch, and Filthy Carpet ✮

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O medo angustia a alma

O medo angustia a alma

Adiando o sucesso de hoje
Desejos no papel são só desejos
Luz fraca no caminho.

Carlos de Campos 

Toda as traduções são feitas pela IA

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🇺🇸 Inglês

Fear Torments the Soul

Postponing today's success
Desires on paper are only desires
A faint light along the way.

Carlos de Campos

All translations are made by AI.

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 🇪🇸 Espanhol

El miedo angustia el alma

Posponiendo el éxito de hoy
Los deseos en el papel son solo deseos
Una luz tenue en el camino.

Carlos de Campos

Todas las traducciones son realizadas por IA.

---

 🇮🇳 Hindi

भय आत्मा को व्याकुल करता है

आज की सफलता को टालते हुए
कागज़ पर लिखी इच्छाएँ बस इच्छाएँ हैं
राह में मंद रोशनी।

Carlos de Campos

सभी अनुवाद AI द्वारा किए गए हैं।

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🇨🇳 Chinês simplificado

恐惧使灵魂焦虑

推迟今天的成功
纸上的愿望终究只是愿望
路上微弱的光。

Carlos de Campos

所有翻译均由人工智能完成。

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 🇮🇩 Indonésio

Ketakutan Menggelisahkan Jiwa

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Keinginan di atas kertas hanyalah keinginan
Cahaya redup di jalan.

Carlos de Campos

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 🇷🇺 Russo

Страх тревожит душу

Откладывая сегодняшний успех
Желания на бумаге — лишь желания
Слабый свет на пути.

Carlos de Campos

Все переводы выполнены с помощью ИИ.

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O medo angustia a alma

O medo angustia a alma

Adiando o sucesso de hoje
Desejos no papel são só desejos
Luz fraca no caminho.

Carlos de Campos 

Toda as traduções são feitas pela IA

-----

🇺🇸 Inglês

Fear Torments the Soul

Postponing today's success
Desires on paper are only desires
A faint light along the way.

Carlos de Campos

All translations are made by AI.

---

 🇪🇸 Espanhol

El miedo angustia el alma

Posponiendo el éxito de hoy
Los deseos en el papel son solo deseos
Una luz tenue en el camino.

Carlos de Campos

Todas las traducciones son realizadas por IA.

---

 🇮🇳 Hindi

भय आत्मा को व्याकुल करता है

आज की सफलता को टालते हुए
कागज़ पर लिखी इच्छाएँ बस इच्छाएँ हैं
राह में मंद रोशनी।

Carlos de Campos

सभी अनुवाद AI द्वारा किए गए हैं।

---

🇨🇳 Chinês simplificado

恐惧使灵魂焦虑

推迟今天的成功
纸上的愿望终究只是愿望
路上微弱的光。

Carlos de Campos

所有翻译均由人工智能完成。

---

 🇮🇩 Indonésio

Ketakutan Menggelisahkan Jiwa

Menunda keberhasilan hari ini
Keinginan di atas kertas hanyalah keinginan
Cahaya redup di jalan.

Carlos de Campos

Semua terjemahan dibuat oleh AI.

---

 🇷🇺 Russo

Страх тревожит душу

Откладывая сегодняшний успех
Желания на бумаге — лишь желания
Слабый свет на пути.

Carlos de Campos

Все переводы выполнены с помощью ИИ.

---

Avalie isto:

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A Question of Conscience

Are you dead, my guide?
Or have you simply sunk into the muck
that creeps upon these inner corridors,
drowning in helpless demise?

The glass is obscured and the
bright moon has faded into the mist
while I, like a blind hand groping,
stand trembling in this night,

waiting.

October 28, 1988, Curridabat, Costa Rica

Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

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A Question of Conscience

Are you dead, my guide?
Or have you simply sunk into the muck
that creeps upon these inner corridors,
drowning in helpless demise?

The glass is obscured and the
bright moon has faded into the mist
while I, like a blind hand groping,
stand trembling in this night,

waiting.

October 28, 1988, Curridabat, Costa Rica

Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

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✮ An Ache That Pricks Even Thorns ✮

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✮ Fear ✮

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✮ Words Are Things ✮

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✮ Twice Mentioned ✮

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Reaching

peacegroover@deviantart

When I write
I find myself reaching—

reaching
reaching
reaching
reaching

for something.

Satisfaction.
Accomplishment.
Arrival.

There is none now.

Only words.
More words.
Another page.

Perhaps
I still have far to climb.

Perhaps
I have mistaken a hill
for a mountain.

Perhaps
the pinnacle
was never there.

Perhaps there is no
there.

Only this:

the reaching,
the climbing,
the wanting
to arrive.

And still
nothing.

No summit.
No flag.
No voice saying—

enough.

Perhaps
I am not finished.

Perhaps
I never will be.

Or perhaps

this is only doubt and hope —

standing at the bottom
of something,

looking up.

(Journal entry April 8, 1986, age 19, expanded 40 years later)

#1986 #accomplishment #ambition #ComingOfAge #CreativeProcess #Creativity #ExistentialPoetry #LookingBack #memory #Nineteen #PersonalPoetry #Poetry #Reaching #reflection #searching #selfDoubt #StaccatoPoetry #uncertainty #WriterSLife #Writing #YoungWriter

Reaching

peacegroover@deviantart

When I write
I find myself reaching—

reaching
reaching
reaching
reaching

for something.

Satisfaction.
Accomplishment.
Arrival.

There is none now.

Only words.
More words.
Another page.

Perhaps
I still have far to climb.

Perhaps
I have mistaken a hill
for a mountain.

Perhaps
the pinnacle
was never there.

Perhaps there is no
there.

Only this:

the reaching,
the climbing,
the wanting
to arrive.

And still
nothing.

No summit.
No flag.
No voice saying—

enough.

Perhaps
I am not finished.

Perhaps
I never will be.

Or perhaps

this is only doubt and hope —

standing at the bottom
of something,

looking up.

(Journal entry April 8, 1986, age 19, expanded 40 years later)

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