...C Cleverly Poems

Stupa monkey
Banana stealing
Gone like soap
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A breath caught as a drop.
Caught as bejewelling dew
on frozen twigs, cold and dead:
what's breath was water was ice.
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Faithful come, succumb and crumble
A shadow on a mirror on a puddle
A pungent remnant of this perfumed tune
As I sing a song to me
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Give Charity
Without duality
Give secretly
Not strategically
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Nails on ankles scratch for cures,
For woes and vex that foes cause
And dystopic eyes focus on distant shores
While wisdom waits.
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What good shoe resists a polish
And collects the dirt of yesterday.
Lo! below their uppers, soles grey.
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Show me a crystal that is clear or a clear way worth walking

Or a forgiveness appreciated that was just given away
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Paradigm unlocks truths made in paradox,
As softest water wears down the hardest rocks,
Dark-nest wombs child-guide the brightest light,
Made in silence they scream with wild delight
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Both you and I, great and small
Are born to die or rise and fall.
The laws immutable
Are not disputable
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your sword seeks an enemy
rest by this tree instead
for your enemy
if you but knew lives inside your head
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