QUIETUS

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Q U I E T U S

From a personal point of view

I'm madly in love with my maker

who also happens to be my taker

who I shall inevitably be joined with

my one and only beloved, the quietus.

With such comforting certitude awaiting

patiently, from the other side of the pane

my passing will be the most assuring token

may this poem turn out to be a genuine omen

such a heartfelt promise can never be forsaken.

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MISFIT

My old friend Michael had a heart attack

they called me from the hospital, I rushed

he was a heavy smoker, they might bypass

he looked pale and exhausted, worried I was

'anything I can do for you, anything''... I asked'

'get a cigarette' he pleaded, 'I am dying for one'.

The Survival of the Misfit

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The contrast between

high thinking and low living

measured in cigarette butts!.

Meanwhile time is running in

and running out... in and out

In ironic opposition

things are evolving

after all he's still breathing

and smoking and kicking

the king of the time being

will soon be choking!.

As we sit and stare

at time running out

one more cigarette

is what this is all about.

We do not have to

rave and shout

but on this issue

we have no doubt

that if he quits

he is in

or else

he is out!.

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FAITH IN FATE

Faith in Fate

Ardor is subtle when taken in gullibility

with purity, innocence and also naivety 

alongside passion, comes vulnerability

should it crumble, there will be no pity

romance in bloom, such is pure delight

must cherish beloved to keep it in sight

faith is delicate, can be distorted by fate 

so strong yet fragile, should treat it right.

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DOWN THE SLOPE

Time Scratcher

Just awakened from a dream

as fresh in my mind as can be, 

first was a little ball rolling down a slope

like a snowball growing and accelerating

gaining size and speed, started glowing

and then a miraculous thing occurred 

as I was running out of time, I managed

to stretch time faster than the momentum,

speed was gathered, a quickening triggered

a dormant reaction, a latent force awakened

traveling in time was easily handled

as manifested clearly once I opened my eyes

the dream that I had dreamed a moment ago

was way ahead of me in a projected thereafter

if this isn't time travel, what else could it be

just the reverse of deja vu, when I get there

I will be arriving to where I am heading today

only a while ago, as though this was yesterday.

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PROVOCATEUR

Provocateur 

I have discovered idiotic idioms in my mouth

which were indiscriminately uttered tonight

I have been chewing those out bite by bite

just as a mouth to mouth tongue delight

since I have nothing else  I wish to hide

will you be willing to come for a ride?.

BEHOLDER

Eye of the Beholder

Captured in this instance 

suspended between intervals

a blink of an eye in slow motion 

biting time, a pull here, a push there

in a flash it goes, as though it never was

but something was captured, an impression

which alters perception, accordingly in quantum

what appears is only relative to that moments catch

with infinite possibilities in store at perceptions stretch.