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passages

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reclamation

Small things are gigantic.   A heart on fire in the middle of the ocean.  One lonely tree on a hilltop.  An old couple holding hands at the market.    A clock on the mantle counting down the moments.

I thrive on pretense and assumption, on hope and yearning.  Some corner of meager existence, where things make sense in a small way, and little things are just little things, with a spill or two along the way.

Comfortably weary and restless.  I hear there’s only so much time.  And sometimes everything just has to be slow like snow falling.  And sometimes there is no reason, just an idea.

A concentrated mediocrity.  Boiled down, reduced, reclaimed, returned.  A lifetime isn’t enough.  There’s never enough time or hunger to go all the way round.

But to need a little less.  To let in a little more.  Of the world.  Of you.  So put on your face.  And your dancing shoes.

Life waits for no one.

-loveblushfever

 

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown Jr

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever…

Isak Dineson

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

 

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thoughts on…..

life and beginnings

there are no beginnings

there are middle parts that continue

aimless

sometimes searching

nausea aside

aspiration, forethought, a jumble

of feelings of towers

of places i’ve never been

they linger on a limb of my imagination

i pretend that i am this way and that

i wander onto a ledge

ever so dear and inviting

but i a am only here

right now

and you are over there

it isn’t bad arithmetic

it’s a reality

that space shall play its part

and we will be

on different planes

revolving

with our eyes closed

PERSPECTIVES AND RECONSTRUCTIONS 1

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serendipitous meeting.  inclusive and unabashed

impatiently holding out

pleading some way into a darkness complete and forgiving

stray creations of the heart sit on the shelf

unfiltered and fully saturated

-vietta brauheim

 

 

BLUE PLATE SPECIAL

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SMALL THINGS

UNASSUMING

NEITHER LOUD

NOR OBNOXIOUS

HOLD THEIR IMPORTANCE

IN THEIR QUIET

SIMPLICITY

AS IF WAITING

LIKE A SWEET OLD LADY

FOR A BUS THAT WILL NEVER ARRIVE

WINDBLOWN LEAVES

SCUTTLE ACROSS THE STREET

AN UNREHEARSED BALLET

-vietta braunheim

A Rare Moment of Certain Clarity and a Room to Oneself

A Rare Moment of Certain Clarity

And a Room to Oneself

 

blow out the candles and draw the curtains

put away your fine china and fancy silverware i won’t be coming to dinner

instead i’ll retire into myself

perhaps contemplating the merits of existentialism

perhaps not

maybe simply enjoying a rare moment of certain clarity

or maybe reconsidering this life in secrets and shadows

hushed voices behind doors and dark glances around corners

on and on

futile but compulsory seeking a meaning with substance

moments lined up like streetlights

old loves resurface like lost necklaces and scraps of paper

a swift separation and sleeplessness stirs

colours of my youth  filter up through time and consciousness

a small autobiography of blinks sharp inhales sobs sighs

mental handshakes and other dribble

in the middle the mess and tangle of words

a feeling or two thrown in for good measure

an empty drawer

a hanger without a garment

there’s a smear of my lipstick on the collar of my shirt

that’s something i suppose

as i rifle through my sloppy clutter of afterthoughts excuses and other

damnable pieces of prose

i wander in and out of myself

like a hotel guest

always leaving my room in disarray

i beg directions from the doorman just outside the lobby smoking a cigarette

he mumbles something i cannot hear

sometimes living in the world is like this

a promise of total obscurity and anonymity

and a room to oneself

-vietta braunheim

 

 

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