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  1. Driving at night:

    "The dippers, the gods, and warriors all flickering about the ambiguous emoji of the moon." —Lorrie Moore 🌔

    #metaphor #moon #emoji #writing

  2. This Mined Mind of Mine

    This mind of mine
    is a mine
    mined with mines,

    bombs bombing
    balmy balms,

    static coms,
    erratic ROMs,

    a spinning sinning din of
    fractured psalms.

    Soul soloing
    solely on wounded soles,

    moldy moles
    modifying holes,

    digging shrews,
    rigging news,

    a sonic bubonic tonic of
    the unamused.

    Eye on the I,
    I’d hide from I,
    why try,

    eye, I,
    open wide,

    what’s inside,
    now out,
    look about,

    shouting shout,
    spouting sprouts,

    broken limbs,
    token Sims,

    a brimming skimming hymn of
    the grim.

    Blinding binds,
    blinds behind signs,

    warped windows,
    skin grows,

    transparent parent
    gelling jellos,

    a churning yearning turning of
    buried cellos.

    Nerve serving curve
    of the mortal swerve,

    a word herd stirred,
    a buried blurred bird,

    sudden flight,
    sodden fright,

    a scattered battered bat of
    the tattered night.

    Hands in the sand,
    unplanned manned strands
    of what once was grand,

    keeps collapse,
    seeps relapse,

    in the laps of
    the lambasted land,

    vain veins
    veined in clay,

    waiting gray,
    weighty water
    washing away,

    a dim lit hymn-bit limb of
    decay.

    Still—

    slurping krill,
    burping bill,

    Be still,
    be still,

    not my will,
    but thine,

    new wine,
    do dine,

    demining
    this mined heart of mine,

    never mine,
    ever kind,

    sever the binding line,

    and I,
    eye,

    am no longer
    blind.

    #BeStill #ContemporaryPoetry #DarkPoetry #deconstruction #experimentalPoetry #Faith #fracturedMind #gothicPoetry #Healing #Identity #innerTurmoil #internalRhyme #mentalLandscape #metaphor #mindAsMinefield #NotMyWillButThine #Poetry #Prayer #Psalms #psychologicalPoetry #rhyme #self #soul #spiritualStruggle #SpokenWord #strangePoetry #StreamOfConsciousness #surrealPoetry #surrealism #surrender #Wordplay
  3. Broken Chair

    I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

    But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

    Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

    It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

    Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

    It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

    I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

    I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

    July 10, 2015

    #beautyInBrokenThings #beingRestored #Brokenness #compassion #everydayParables #FaithAndLife #foundObjects #gentleHands #Grace #Healing #Hope #humanDignity #innerHealing #Loneliness #metaphor #ordinaryGrace #personalEssay #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Purpose #Redemption #renewal #repair #rescuedChair #restoration #secondChances #sidewalkStory #SpiritualReflection #urbanReflection #Waiting #WordPressTagsBrokenChair #woundedButWorthy #Writing
  4. On the vogue #word “weaponize,” a #metaphor for the word “politicize,” and the birth of other words with the I Z E ending that changed them from #nouns to #verbs #language #rhetoric
    washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

  5. 🥥 When is an epic #disaster a #metaphor for an #EpicDisaster?
    Maybe when the #EconomicSystem has been engineered to produce more disasters all the way down. 🥥

  6. 🥥 When is an epic #disaster a #metaphor for an #EpicDisaster?
    Maybe when the #EconomicSystem has been engineered to produce more disasters all the way down. 🥥

  7. 🥥 When is an epic #disaster a #metaphor for an #EpicDisaster?
    Maybe when the #EconomicSystem has been engineered to produce more disasters all the way down. 🥥

  8. 🥥 When is an epic #disaster a #metaphor for an #EpicDisaster?
    Maybe when the #EconomicSystem has been engineered to produce more disasters all the way down. 🥥