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manuwrites
May 4, 20241 min read
The storm within
Feeling a bit Jon Batiste and a bit UNI and the Urchins The storm within one tear leads the way dropping crookedly to the ground...
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manuwrites
Apr 13, 20241 min read
Thinking about
Thinking about… fear mongering trust the future isolation roles production purpose empathy apathy the collective the individual what to...
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manuwrites
Apr 6, 20241 min read
Characterization
Meaning Less means Means less Meaningless More means Means more Meaningful Mean Meaner Meanest What do you mean? And most of all… Do you...
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manuwrites
Mar 30, 20241 min read
Daydream
A frail form on bowed legs moves painfully slowly going nowhere against a World that no longer befriends It stares with defeated eyes...
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manuwrites
Mar 23, 20241 min read
You…
You with your parsley fresh wit and Habanero warmth You Orchid smart And determined as an Arctic willow You Stable as beetroot And...
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manuwrites
Feb 24, 20241 min read
Fallen petal
Fallen Petal petulant petal brief glorious martyrdom back from where you came Photo by Wallace Castro #fallenpetal #haiku #poem #poetry
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manuwrites
Dec 9, 20231 min read
Tryptich of wonder
Dropping like flies Lies Listen A tree fell in the forest snap crackle and pop with no other place to go hunker down and wait winter...
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manuwrites
Sep 30, 20231 min read
September
fresh air endless skies welcome frisson sharpened minds a cool cleanse forward motion possibilities newly woken scavenge and scurry red...
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manuwrites
Sep 23, 20231 min read
The deconstruction
Miserable miser Jealous louse Friendless fiend Oil and ice Furrowed brow Mean and fake Moody and capricious will not abate the poison...
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manuwrites
Sep 9, 20231 min read
Pointless
a dog running from its tail brushing dirt under a rug painting over a stain sealing a hole with a plug darkness diminishing light clouds...
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manuwrites
Sep 2, 20231 min read
Verity
the truth destroyer of illusions lightness of being a Vaquita empirical convenient yours mine Title photo by Markus Winkler #empirical...
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manuwrites
Aug 26, 20231 min read
Why?
A folded body Sits in a pool of unfair and shame Can’t speak Doesn’t even want to Everyone just go away Even those most loved Why won’t...
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manuwrites
Jul 29, 20231 min read
joy
E major Brimming with lightness and glee Trembles inside me Lifts me up Feels like hallelujah Photo by Kourosh Qaffari #lightnessofbeing...
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manuwrites
Apr 7, 20231 min read
I, myself and me
Can, can’t, don’t know High, middle, low Our forever fight Never sure whose right Not worth the pain Try it again Go grab your fame We...
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manuwrites
Mar 31, 20231 min read
As if…
As if this dust had never been a person And this right had never been wrong As if this debris had never been a city And this discord...
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manuwrites
Dec 30, 20221 min read
Vanishing Act
Vanishing Act Grief drifts envelopes erases till there is nothing left #dripping #shadows #vanishingact #skies #tearful #nothing #poetry...
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manuwrites
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Pain
DOMINANCE Grunt and thump Past death past hell and beyond Again and again and more SHE Maelstrom of evil Tempting in pretty colors Don’t...
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manuwrites
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Merciful Mary
Winds of change Please do carry the voice of truth far and wide Across battlefields And burning skies Over charred remains Mothers’ empty...
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manuwrites
Aug 20, 20211 min read
Self importance
You Have A staggering need to overpower Be the person of the hour With your far and your wide Versus others’ steady ride Convinced your...
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manuwrites
Jul 9, 20211 min read
Jessie the cat
Jessie the cat Lived in our flat On the last floor Behind the green door Jessie sat on the sill All curled up and still Watching the...
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