Author: Richard J Tilley
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Parts
The next time you Complain that the path Before you is an incomplete Path, just remember: the Right plan parts the Galaxy
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Seeds of Allowance in Tune
You can’t rent the daylight Either you see it or you don’t Those that do know It has an immediacy to it The daylight has the last word There is...
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Breaches and Branches
The spaces between leaves on a branch Does not know you The spaces between the leaves where the sunlight Breaches through knows nothing of bankers Religion is based on assumption...
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Always Orbiting
The moon Is the thoughtlessness Of humanity Always orbiting Always present Once pierced by the eye One cannot see the shape or sounds Of yesteryear’s present poverty We never leave...
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The Regrets of Tomorrow
The lonely estate With short grass and long winds Lives with three dogs Dry to their own muggings Retired from the trauma of memoir And conceded to the domesticity Of...
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Receptacles for Creation
Despite the excesses We are willing to tolerate We are all Receptacles for creation No matter how ill-conceived We approach that notion
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Sociopolitical Kingship of the Sky
Once upon a time The sun was a child of the sky And the sky was the heavens Where the stars exposed themselves To the naked eye. Technically, This is...
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The Ontology of a Hummingbird
It is all a gambit Graduation gown A parody of arts and letters Burns on surrounded tissue Publish or perish Distinguished the water The sword of the king Withdrawn from...
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The Advocate is Gone
The rumors now are fading It’s more certain now than before the fleet torn curtains We have become accustomed To a man that is gone That is both forgotten and...
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No Tapestry
I have no tapestry Very seldom have I received that reward What little has been given to me Has been taken away My birth was the sound Of someone dropping...