Evidence
Isn’t the Enemy
Failure
Isn’t the End
Reaction to
The game is
Friend
The goal is
Not to break
Just bend
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Category: Micropoem
Within
Sometimes
I think ahead
Or dwell
In the past
Only in the now
Can I hear
The quiet hum
The nameless song
The beloved echo
Within
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Only Slow Recognitions
You’re self contained
Nothing else is missing
Any loss or pain
Don’t take to dismissing
The are no gains
Only slow recognitions
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
The Best of Song Is About Surrender
There is nothing wrong
With giving up
The best of song Is about surrender
That for what you long
Has ever torn you asunder
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
I Take No Stances
Hunger knows your name
I can see it in your glances
Starbuck watches on
As Ahab and the white whale
Dances
I take
No stances
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
We Told Stories
We told stories
They became our religions
We repeated actions
They became our decisions
We found were wrong
Then we made revisions
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Open Heartedness
Open heartedness
A trickling stream
Obscured by fog
Difficult to view
Slowly opening
Into a river
Burning like
The will of love
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Stores We Tell
A damsel in distress
A knight striving his best
A nautical tale
A huge white whale
Imagined realities
Fight life’s banalities
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
If I Knew What I Learned
If I knew
What I learned
Than I’d tell it
But you see
Having lived it
I don’t know it
If I don’t seem
Lost
I just don’t
Show it
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
The Weight of Madness
I inhale the weight of madness
I exhale the weight of light
I acknowledge my sadness
I acknowledge it is with myself I fight
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
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