Feel the determination crumble

and dissipate like a dried leaf, kicked about in the cold autumn breeze. Set a fire, and inhale the smoke to supplement a sense of self. Down a glass, to put you to bed, as the seasons change, so must your priorities, your sense of comfort, your sources of energy. Now put the pen down […]

At the Pink

A backwards glance[may be the last glimpse of you]of you in your faux furred flannelautumnal activewearwalking away fromthe steps ofthe old pinkas I rolled towardsmy corner of homemy be all I have to look back uponwhen I think upon the last time I saw you “I love you; and please don’t die before we see […]

Lost in the leaves

of my own story… walking home aloneyour presenceis allI desire I hunger foryour lipsI thirstfor your soul the chain of your devotionmay set me freeif I can allow emotionto transcend my thoughts gray is the backgroundfor your spectrum of colorsas I try to stay afloatamidst the companyof others

I feel your fingers in the breeze

as it danceson my fleshthe wind carriesyour voiceto my earsand down into medeep insideto that long forsaken placeclosed off to the worldfor a yearthe old wooden cigar boxsealed shut for so longbut the wind is beginningto flow through the crackswill I be able tolet you in?will I let youread everything?you say you share my painbut […]

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice