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Astonishing

Thinkers are posed with the question, is there a soul? Maybe
They approach an answer through neuroscience:
The synapses are passed on in death
To some universal warehouse;
There, accumulated, they bubble and squeak for many
Worlds to employ,
Recreating different or perhaps identical souls,
Spanning the white light awaiting,
The feeling of Love everywhere,
The joyous occasion when all hearts are one,
And the perfect balance of nature and brain coalesce.

poem by Stan Petrovich
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Unincorporated Insights II

What emergent grammar elucidates
The syntax of our juxtaposition?
Why must we meander and gravitate
Toward the pull of blank exposition?
We speak in indefinite articles,
Communicating as a formality?
Our dreams are overlapping particles,
Transposed over strips of reality.
Our intellects are woven by conflict,
Disproportionate threads that braid our lives.
Ideas coalesce to contradict
Where what we call logic attempts to thrive.
We design ignorance, always preening
The language that has been intervening.

poem by Tim Stensloff
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Hope Sonnet

I write all my songs, all my poetry,
Hoping I may be able to escape
Reality by means of symmetry,
In rhythmic schemes and with metrical shape.
I distort my surroundings in the glass—
Convex and past, covering my iris
Where the amorphous images amass,
Contaminating thoughts like a virus.
My dirtied spectacles, a petri dish,
Hold onto diseased cultures of fancy:
Glowing germs—cell stars made to take a wish
And transpose it where I might blindly see.
Then beautiful things coalesce and transcend
Beyond my imagined world of pretend.

poem by Tim Stensloff
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In Dreams En Route To Stars

In Dreams En Route To Stars
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Let Your Dreams Fuel The Stars
To Light The Night To Peace.
The Peace That Comes With Heart
Of Mind En Route To Dreams.
When Dreamt Thereof A Night
To Comfort A Mind To Rest
When Rest Thereof A Life
In Peace Of Mind To Heart
As Hearts Coalesce As One
When Two Of Hearts To Love
A Peace Sought To Love
An Innocence Felt In Heart
In Heart Of My Virtue.
Of Virtue Divined Of Love
In Peace As Two Unite When One
Fore There To Be A Peace
To Rest The Mind For Love

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poem by Ricardo Antunes
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Transformation

Moonlight filtered through the trees.
Can cast strange shadows on the ground
which fill me with a vague unease
because they seem to move around.

Somehow independently
The minute that I look away.
As if they have been watching me
to try and lead my thoughts astray.

I know that in reality
the shadows represent no threat
But fear erodes my certainty
and in my panic I forget.

I only know I have to run.
Just as the shadows knew I would
They coalesce, attack as one
Then finally I understood.

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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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Padang

Earth which has been brought
to the base of the great respect on

heard crying explain terrible secret
frightened faces of the mother, brothers beloved
children, the fathers, loved ones
other brothers
that has been lost and feel lost

The tragedy touched my heart
crouch sense of melancholy, sad
though there are boundaries
you one on earth
give a loyalty sympathy and prayers

wisdom that the earth trembled a awareness
and crying in the splitting field
none compliant piety coalesce shaky
poles were erected centuries confident
more powerful receiving conditions

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poem by Hasyuda Abadi
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Sneak Peek

life makes wonder,
it turns the great wave change
to surfing avenue,
and even
the heavenly sky loom to fall; still the
flourishing light
of the smelling blossoming lotus flower
tears to smile,
weighing to pass as it bye

the looted time,
stand in our side, fails to find
to come back
in every midst, lost in the paradise
of no returning home,
but change
have found the reason to gain its fall,
mesmerized the whole pain makes the best
to return in the pedestal
of where we

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poem by Antonio Liao
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Two Fossil Flow'rs

Hast thou been enamored before Zeus?
were thee an aunt of grandma Medusa?
Was thy amor' beyond the ocean, thus?

A strong worker with his hydraulic press,
thy ancient chastity became his musa,
Hast thou been enamored before Zeus?

Were thee submitted to his solid bless?
before time thou appeared as Arethusa;
Was thy amor' beyond the ocean, thus?

Neanderthals were apt to just depress;
when thy wish was to abide in Syracusa;
Hast thou been enamored before Zeus?

Thy flock of boars value was to assess;
were thee in love with a robust bab'rusa
Was thy amor' beyond the ocean, thus?

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poem by Giorgio Veneto
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I’m Dead (Revised)

I’m dead, don’t know how or when I died
although I do know why – endless lists of
French political news items broadcast in
stereo-audio booming with journalists’
machine-gun-fire voices have destroyed
my ability to prioritize

the senseless violence in African and
European countries facing like financial
crises coalesce into a grim grey stream – I
realize I cannot read these journals sanely,
much less memorise for language class,
my empty mind inanely vacillates

I do not care – with no substitute aims and
no alternative my mental gyroscope becomes
unsteady, even if I could seek help I’d still
lack the terms to describe my dilemma,
I cannot formulate the problem – unless
the explanation is I’m dead already

poem by Margaret Alice Second
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The Problem

The Problem

The name of the bow is life, but its work is death.
—The Fragments

How in Heraclitus
ideas of things, quality, and event
coalesce—sun/warmth/dawn—
the perceiver/perceived, too,
not yet parsed, not yet,
and then the great Forgetting,
breath and breather, love and beloved,
world and God-in-the-world.
But then it comes upon us: that brightness,
that bright tension in animals, for instance,
that focus, that compass
of the mammalian mind finding
its own true North,
saintly in its dark-eyed,
arrow-eared devotion.

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poem by B.H. Fairchild
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