the-destiny-of-the-pendulum

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“I don’t want to be a writer. I just want my words to matter.”

By @the-destiny-of-the-pendulum

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I wish I was the ocean

inexplicable tides

the sky wouldn’t ask me to explain

I wish I were the sky

Full of birds

Impervious to the burden of reason

I wish I were an empty field

Full of the latency of life

With faith fortified by ever-returning seasons

I wish I was a tree

Swaying

Unaware of the breeze

I wish I were fire

Burning just because

A match touched me

I wish I was something that is

Without having to be.

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misplaced grains of sand

hostage to the hourglass

trapped inside the years

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I’m Not Sorry About It

Vengeance is the forest fire I set

With unabashed content

Branded my heart

With lust for revenge

The pain I endured

Is permanent

The scars can’t forget

The fire I set

I won’t never regret

And you deserve to wallow in

The ashes you left.

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If You’re Lucky

If you’re lucky

Your path is always lit

By a streetlight

If not the sun

If you’re lucky

The flowers bloom

But do not wilt

Despite the drought

If you’re lucky

You have your umbrella handy

When the sky starts

growling and dripping

If you’re lucky

Sickness will pass over you

Medication will be occasional

Maladies never chronic

If you’re lucky

You could say you’re blessed

But don’t

Because it would imply

That some are cursed

Just thank the stars

For not falling

Thank the Red Sea

When it parts before you

Just be thankful

That you are lucky.

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Heavy

gravity is an enemy you don’t want to ever meet

it will let you do horrible things, like fall off buildings

It will let the rain fall towards you

It will let the waves dissolve the rocks

It will turn the seconds

into sand.

But the worst thing gravity will do

is hang like a rock in your heart

make your feet drag behind you

get heavier the farther you walk

get stronger the higher you climb

The thing about a force of nature

Like water or wind or fire

Is it’s indifference

how it has nothing to lose

and all the time in the world

to create and destroy.

But it will not destroy me

Because I’m a force of nature too.

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People say…

Now is all we have

but I prefer the notion

that nothing changes

without

—starting ——

at one specific

point in time

like a day

or a second

or a year

or you could

call it

[[[now]]]

if you want.

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Fistful of Moonlight

fistful of moonlight

dripping through desperate fingers

this is

the last of it

before the starving dark

smoke signals spiral

invisible against

the sky

the last of the night fire

smoldering and too weak to

return to burning

welcome to

the salt-less ocean

waves of indifference

apologies to the water

it isn’t listening

a death inevitable

to mortals

exposed to nature’s

fundamental unkindness

the sunrise

asks forgiveness

for the sunset’s disappearance

night

echoing forever

regardless.

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She’ll take the train

Like anyone else

But waiting at the station

Has taken her nowhere

So she walks down the tracks

When the train comes

Her stop will be

Exactly where she is.

Poem by @the-destiny-of-the-pendulum

Photography by @eirikharstad

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She balances on the tips of trees

Along the vague line between their shadows and the bright white snow

Outline determinate -not to arrive somewhere, just to keep walking.

Whether across fields dull or fields sunlit

Mostly, she just balances on the edge that divides them.

———

Poem by @the-destiny-of-the-pendulum

Photography by Crystal Lee Lucas @moonletgarden

SHOT BY CRYSTAL LEE LUCAS @moonletgarden

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Unwritten

In the narrowing tunnel of isolation

Lost in the trailing echoes

Of metaphors I will never write down

Never share

Never tell

The words are stranded inside me

You want to know what it’s like?

It’s like a stuttering monologue

Unreachable, even by those

Who would read the words

If I could only write them down.

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In the End

I will put you in the pile

Of all the good things

That will never be again

Like a leaf in fall

Like a hand full of sand

I will put you on the hearth

Like a loved one who has passed

Framed inside a memory

Like a tide called back by the sea

Like a wave rushing out from under me

I will put you outside

Let you rot in the rain

Let the earth have you back

I have no right to claim

I will say goodbye

To your ashes

With a heart of wanting

With a soul still mourning

Like a riverbank

Dry and thirsting.

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Rosy days appear

A carousel of colors

Through the looking glass.

Artwork by V. Moore

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Fight like you can’t lose

Courage shakes but does not break

Just don’t run away.

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Words fly, paper cuts

Origami arsenal

Paper mache scars.

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Fly little magpie

Your feathers will hold you now

Just don't look down

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Unarmed at first glance

Her switchblade, smiling

Charming, undaunted.

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