"The Measure of My Dreams"
Dear Readers,
Iāve been on a bit of a mourn since this past Thursday when I read the news that Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Pogues and punk poet extraordianaire passed out of this world. Sometimes news has a way of hitting you in places you didnāt expect it to. This certainly did. It has affected me greatly and Iām still examining it as it unfolds. I never knew Shane MacGowan by way ofā¦
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āA Proportional Fall from Graceā
āA Proportional Fall from Graceā
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Coffee beans roasted to perfection
Patience paying off in some measure
The most welcome and most comfortable chill of autumn
That can be handled with cozy blanket warmth
Looking for furnace noises with my ears
Metallic mechanisms and air tickety-tack and vibrate towards a low and sustained glow
Looking to toast the tips of toes peeking through shameful holes ofā¦
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"But, What About...?"
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āBut, What Aboutā¦?ā
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Large swirling strokes empty the vigor from an eager elbow
Transmitting ideas forward to a fluid wrist and firm hand
Ideas that were born of a brain sifting sensory tides
Alive in the ocean of being
Flopping about while trying to tread for existence
Shapes become words to be seen or heard
Digested by othered others
So they can taste the pain of surviving
Spitting out orā¦
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"Sometimes, You Can't Make It on Your Own"
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There are certain days of the year when I pause to reflect. Fatherās Day is among those days. It is a day to be present, but also to remember the past, with grand hopes for the future.
I am a father going on 12 years now. I became one late on a Thursday night in September of 2011, as my firstborn emerged from his place of residence, which he was stubbornly trying to avoid.
Maybe I became aā¦
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Summer Cottage
āMetaā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
āSummer Cottageā
Summer cottage
Back from the sea
Sand trails worn
Salty breeze
Past noon shadows
āRound windows sneak
Lazy naps
Blissful peace
Sunset wonder
Horizon squeeze
Barefoot stroll
Soul at ease
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Breathtaker
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āGarbage Poemsā
āNoā¦You Listenā Ā©ļø C.P. Hickey 1986
āGarbage Poemsā
Garbage poems find a home
Pouring from my pen
Garbage poems, parts unknown
Not an if, butā¦when
Garbage lines unrefined
Jumping to the page
Garbage lines of my mind
Bring this poet shame
Garbage rhymes passing time
Poetās praying priest
Garbage rhymes human crimes
Shepardās saintly feast
Garbage art does depart
A poetās meteredā¦
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Not Art?
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Rainsy
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āWriting Distractionā
āFlakeā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
āWriting Distractionā
Environment skews focus
Elusive ideas remain away
Cannot quite grasp it
Looming large but ineffable
Which is a word I learned in high school
From a young woman named Megan
Which I cannot remember if she spelled her name with or without an āhā
Old dial tone phones with Boa Constrictor cords
Kept us tethered in the wonder of anā¦
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āNonconformityā
āA Maize Ingrateā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
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"Radio Static"
āRadio Staticā
Indigenous Light Forms Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
percolating crackle
amplitude frequency
word soup white noise
dial left or right
neither correct
more crackling
static fizz a bushy business
a puffing storm cloud
potentially kinetic
ozone whiffs waft
waves winderly windy wind
air conducts
a symphony of forms
ideas conveyed and received
broadcasted boldly brave
looking for certain
sentientā¦
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āLost Track of Tiesā
āVintage Skivviesā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
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āOutstandingā
āKeeping Watchā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
āOutstandingā
Sometimes itās hard to stand out
Standing up for others that canāt
Backing down bulliesā braggadocio
There are people out to hurt others
Afraid to help others
And ignore their suffering
Enjoying the struggle
Yetā
Some still stand out against that
Hands outstretched
Elevating others
Those are the onesā¦
That stand out
For me, for you,ā¦
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āAlone From Meā
āOpen Airā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
āAlone From Meā
I donāt know how to be
In a placeāalone from me
Sustaining sanity
A misleading reverie
Impatience patiently
In a placeāalone from me
Existential parity
Haunts this lucid waking dream
A calm collective calamity
In a placeāalone from me
Isolation bursting seams
Old companions take their leave
A desert mirage fleetingly
In a placeāaloneā¦
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āComing Out of My Shellā
āClammyā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
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āA Short Reflectionā
āDepthā Ā©ļøC.P. Hickey 2023
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