There is a part of me

so coarse and dryit cannot thrive inthe light of day cracked and bruisedthe blood tastesbitteras it grindsthe imageof others sanctuary insolemn solitudesilentlydivide separate self andothers as isolated as the moonamong the stars alone amidstthe galaxy

I felt the light

reflected off of theperigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun systemthe heavens shoneso bright that only the darkestof clouds could do anythingto veil it’s glowas I felt the weight of my selfweighedagainst the weight of the world the grass felt strangeI could not tell if it was the grassor my handswhose composition has changedso muchthat the hill of […]

There is a light

Shining forthFrom RomeI feel it’s raysTrans-continental beamsBeckoningHopeGoodnessLoveI struggle inThe warmth of the sunI am a skyGreyAnd dense with fogYou shine your lightAmidst, throughoutA rainbow of colorOn an overcast dayRain or shineYou’ll still be mineThrough calms and stormsI’ll still be yoursThrough droughts and showersThe world will still be ours

the oddest light

The sky is darkin that strange hourbefore dawnwhere some are still upand some are just risingfinding illumination from the moonand the city lightsthe tracks below uscontrolling our destinationrattle and vibrateyou

An exercise in gratefulness and commas

The moon, beaming forth through the clouds during what we here call night, deemed subtle by 21 years of moderately consistent and considerably persistent sensual perception, altered slightly by eclipses, harvest moons and other planetary alignments so far beyond my grasp, attempting to keep this world, this universe, our existence, in balance, disrupted by mankind, […]

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