Love is infinite

Love is timelessLove will always be.But our love,is momentary,is fleeting,will one day be lostamong the infinite.

I can’t tell

whetherI don’t trust youorI don’t trust myself around you

Would you go with me if I felt the need to fly away?

I know you understand the weight that the burden of your hometown’s past carries,and the ways of its omnipresence in our patch of the world.Would you pick up and go with me?I don’t want to leave to forget,I want to leave to see different things.Things nouveau to my eyes,Old things of the earth.Would you go […]

Sneaking glances,

stealing touches,we’re on different pagesof different booksbut somehowthese chaptersi n t e r t w i n e . You and I are something.

it’s been eleven years

and I still haven’t writtenthat poemabout yousleepingin an old wooden chair maybe tomorrow…

a trivial travesty

a table turnedbridges burnedthrough addictive maladycommon flaws are what separate uscommon flaws are what create uscommon flaws are what sustain usentertain us

I’m sorry ***,

I never realizedwhat I meant to you. What you’ve done to meand what I’ve done to youis joyis painthere was weaknessand there was hopethere was sorrybut lots of joy.It hurts to moveit hurts to thinkof youwithout you.But sometimesthere’s more solacein the sanctuaryof solitude

No rest

only the faint dissipatingbut piercingscent ofmango fleshand an emptiness emanatinga permeating sadnessis all my bed has to offer

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