Lonnie Hicks Poems

If I can by the weight of my mind
affect the frequencies between
you and I
and mere proximity
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Dying is such a huge responsibility
I'm not sure I'll even attend.

Will there be sad tears
...

He had a face of chiseled granite
complete with stony smile
that face is embedded in my heart
which lies clutched here
...

You shot me with those frozen bullet eyes
which at first ice-berged the center of my soul

but I didn't die.
...

The day ejected me like bad Taco
and I tumbled out onto my mattress
prepared to stare up at my mobile all night.
Sleep would not come to me in that darkness.
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The most profound thing Einstein said
is that time is taffy, malleable.

And so is space.
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If words can speak to the human heart
then these
are aimed at yours.
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If I make a word
it is first sculpted from letters
on the page
a canvass across which
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Much is made of the human eye-
often said to be the soul's window pane-
but I
wonder what is seen when
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Of all the angels none surpassed the beauty given to her
and he who led the Worship of the Hosts,
Lord had favored the both of them.
with exceeding beauty, ample grace such that surely Lord
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