Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 6, 2012
How are you doing with
Your spatio-temporal
Events on this day
Did you find
Soul satisfying
Scientific answers
To why you are here
To love and loneliness
What you should do
Why you should do it
Did you make any
Quantum leaps
Submitted by Neil McKay on August 5, 2012
Someone once told me
Or wrote it in a poem,
"I like poets more than I like poetry."
I would add to that,
I like baristas more than coffee,
I like bartenders more than beer,
I like friends more than friendship.
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 4, 2012
What mask should I wear today
What mask could please me
What mask could please
The audience for this Tuesday
Friends family acquaintances
Those yet unknown to me
As I drive down the avenue
With so many others on their way
Who might or might not know
Who I am and why I am here
This mask should serve me well
The mask of the night like Juliet
Speaking with Romeo
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 2, 2012
We are in a time of endings
The last speakers of languages
Disappearing animals and plants
Some we probably never knew
Ancient trees felled into board feet
With their knowledge untapped
Like the quiet whispers of the stones
Islands drowned by rising seas
Brief footnotes in future histories
If there are more to be written
Perhaps it will all be epitaphs
About distantly remembered this
And that known only from books
Or digital reconstructions
In their cool indifference
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 1, 2012
It is an existential certitude
Despair will not sustain us
Joy lurks in some corner
Fails to accept dour predictions
Marred with misdemeanors
Strewn across the effort
To figure out what maturity
Was supposed to be
Where it might be found
Appear without subtlety
Direct and indispensable
Unlike traffic signals so often
Ignored by crowds of cars
In dense city centers
With everyone busily
On their way to something
Desperately important
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