joel

joel , 21 hours ago to poetry group

Every day you're given a task
a secret gift you must unmask.
It's always there, on your best days and worst.

It's the real reason you exist
to see that of which you consist:
Cosmos observing itself from within.

Everything else matters little:
a firm hold on something brittle
that crumbles inevitably in time.

#tripadi #poetry
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joel , 1 day ago to poetry group

A poet
condenses
what they know

into forms
with constraints:
with known rules.

Their language
is chosen
carefully.

#nonet #poetry
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joel , 6 days ago to poetry group

Crickets
are all I hear
when I post poetry
to corporate social media.
So loud!

#cinquain #poetry
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joel , 6 days ago to poetry group

You're a loon
to write a Collom 'Lune.'
I'm not joking!

It's way better to
write Kelly's...
I just don't know why.

#lune #poetry
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joel , 13 days ago to poetry group

It's outrageous! Infuriating!
Every life is a tragic arc,
and there's nothing to be done
to bend it otherwise.
Watching a train wreck
while on the train,
Our best hope?
To be
numb.

#nonet #poetry
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joel , 14 days ago to poetry group

We write poetry constantly, unknowingly,
in our endless gush of posts.
I say this ferociously, unjokingly.
We write poetry constantly, unknowingly,
whether heroically or stoically,
humbly mumbled or in boasts.
We write poetry constantly, unknowingly,
in our endless gush of posts.

#triolet #poetry
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joel , 15 days ago to poetry group

I can't
stop eating them!
Sugar coma be damned!
Those delicious wafers of the
Necco

#cinquain #poetry #neccoPoetry #necco
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joel , 16 days ago to poetry group

At some point they must have purpose,
these words we write one another.
All the empty ones are worthless
and blur our lives' vital sharpness.
Meaningful words make a rupture.

#quintilla #poetry
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joel , 18 days ago to poetry group

I think,
but you have an
intellection, you say.
I roll my eyes all the way back
and scoff.

#cinquain #poetry
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joel , 20 days ago to poetry group

They told me
of your death
but not how

I get it
it's a lot
to take in

The less said
the better
so zip it

#tricube #poetry
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joel , 26 days ago to poetry group

act of god
they called it
way back when

less was known
that's for sure
but today

some people
keep themselves
in the dark

#tricube #poetry
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joel , 27 days ago to poetry group

your face
tells a story
one of heavy concern
or the most profound confusion
wee pug

#cinquain #poetry
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joel , 28 days ago to poetry group

ok
open your mouth
let your nonsense flow out
all we hear is just another
boomer

#cinquain #poetry
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joel , 30 days ago to poetry group

old men
in front of me
crack jokes about 'the wife'
jesus, it's twenty twenty four
grow up

#cinquain #poetry
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joel , 1 month ago to poetry group

Write, delete, write, delete, write, delete...
That's how my morning is going.
It's how my life is going.
Write, delete, write, delete...
At the end, I'll be
a still cursor,
flashing, on
a blank
page.

#nonet #poetry
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