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About rjspoems

Exploring being through writing. There is an African proverb that sums up why I write: If you want to go fast, walk alone- If you want to go far, walk together. Come, let us journey together!

The Aladdin Lamp:Reflections Past

Posted on April 9, 2012 by rjspoems

My moth flies well enough yet cannot see its prison. Instinctive and stubborn beating walls with willful wings- trapped by transparencies unaccustomed to submitting. Is breaking on hardened barriers- savoring pride trapped in regrets, better than a humbled turning, and … Continue reading →

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Kept For Another Day

Posted on April 6, 2012 by rjspoems

Bright Spring day’s promise. Grasped by not holding, Non-relenting Is your call to setting . . . Oh, Sun! Scent-washed April night. Lunar-lent landscapes, Mystifying pull Your soul-touch passing . . . Oh, Moon! Timeless the yearning. Kept in keeping … Continue reading →

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Holy Week Compost

Posted on April 2, 2012 by rjspoems

God acts in these choices while predestined you cling midst mangling torrents and conflicting voices a leaf hooked on thorns being whipped and shredded by the rawest of winds

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Doorway

Posted on March 24, 2012 by rjspoems

Being among spring Maples has opened windows to heaven sugared skylights for my soul rjs 2012

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Whimsikkaled

Posted on March 22, 2012 by rjspoems

Oh hope upon hope whigmaleerious! Enough to drive math-kins delirious Now onesies are two- Does this make one blue? Or simply twice whimsikkalterious? rjs 2012

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Bikin’ the Shadows

Posted on March 19, 2012 by rjspoems

There are days one seeks the shadows and welcomes the dusk The light faded before I knew I ride incognito and none can see how mysteriously comforting is the blurring The combination of pavement-text and crack weaving in and out … Continue reading →

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Fired!

Posted on March 17, 2012 by rjspoems

Though it’s been rainy darkening cold- a slanting sun breaks                                                             … Continue reading →

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When Listening Speaks

Posted on March 14, 2012 by rjspoems

Waking deep among night watches, the soul intuits incoming volumes of unspoken caring Darkness grants such space for understanding grief’s visit anew Looking Up as morning stars and paled moon pour forth unspeakably bright and bejeweled soliloquy Reciprocity across the dark-lighted … Continue reading →

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The Call of Cirsium Arvense

Posted on March 14, 2012 by rjspoems

I thought I went out to fulfill task with you – a third, non-personal “it.” The community called “city of . . .”, the institutional entity demanded that “those concerned encounter and correct what was out-of-ordinance on their property …” … Continue reading →

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As Friends Go Out Together

Posted on March 13, 2012 by rjspoems

Pad touched toe and I followed up from sock to out-stretched paw and red-golded hairs- Eyes, such eyes . . .met mine and held them in faith and hopeful love of common things Oh, how this friend holds my eyes … Continue reading →

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