Human connection,

what we desire mosteach of us has our ownthoughts,insights,love,we find comfort incamaraderiehope infellowship Human connectionwhat we fear mosteach of us, with ourfears,insecurities,guilt,we find vexation inmiscommunication,sorrow inloss Human connectionwhat sometimes seems impossibleeach of us is composed ofindividualitybeliefssecretswe are solitary inour mindswhich causes fear inour hearts

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

in circles

Meet me therein that placethat does not existin time or space meet me therewhere desire is untamedand what we feelneed not be named meet me therewhere we need no reason nor rhymeand never need acquiesceto the oppression of time meet me therein that place that is only ourswhere we don’t have to shareour sky or […]

no faith maybe hope

There you are,a single entitycomprised of infiniteconstituents:A pastthat has brought you to thispresent,all of which will dictateyour future,while I lay in bedreviewing,processing,analyzing,wondering,losing focus ofthe present,caught up in a search—a maddening desire—to understandthe infinite.I refuse to havefaith,but I will try to retain somehope.

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