Sound Bites 4-14-2026

Choice Suspended

 

There is no winning

just an upper hand

The scoreboard fluid

as change commands

 

The odds on fire

to win or lose

With choice suspended

— the moment skewed

 

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Flows A River

 

Why in the world

would you care

And if you did

would it matter

 

Our differences

vast

And incongruence

shatters

 

Diametrically

opposed

With a canyon

between us

 

Where truth

flows a river

Never filled

— by consensus

 

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No Quarter

 

The arrogance of

importance

Plato

staking his claim

As thought

gives no quarter

Where truth

— is proclaimed

 

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Death Sentence

 

Meandering

through life

Our consciousness

bought

 

A capital

sin

Forgiveness

— is naught

 

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Lip Service

 

I approve the better

but follow the worse

Entitlements hostage

— alone in the hearse

 

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The Magic Within

 

Music has no borders

and no axe to grind

Love has no labels

but seekers must find ...

 

The magic within

both the sound and the heart

To change what an army

— must yield in their rout

 

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Fair Winds

 

The #1 indicator of good health

— nothing happens

 

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Bestowed

 

When diffidence

takes precedence

over enlightenment and fact

 

All confidence

in abeyance

every gift is abstract

 

To believe is

confirmation

of what the spirit will know

 

Giving credence to a memory

more than gifted

— bestowed

 

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The Moment Upon Us

 

Resetting

your watch

the end coming soon

Ignoring

the ticking

whose bomb will bring doom

The sands

running thinner

the hourglass clear

The moment

upon us

— when doubt turns to fear

 

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Nerve Endings

 

The one thing

I know better

than anything else

Is myself

plain and simple

— viscerally felt

 

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Ballast

 

The more you learn

the less you need

Your burden lifting

— as lessons free

 

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Let’s Begin

 

Can you think it

— I can think it

 

Can you feel it

— I can feel it

 

Can you claim it

— I can claim it

 

Can you live it

— let’s begin

 

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Jumping The Rim

 

I lived most of my life

in a fishbowl

floating and swimming

in place

 

Watching in awe

at the consequent sprawl

while confined to my

own little space

 

One morning I took

it upon me

to swim fast from the depths

far below

 

And once jumping the rim

I was freed of my fins

there to run

— where a fish never goes

 

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Once Out Of The Barn

 

Hello

opens a door

Goodbye

— cannot close

 

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Remade

 

I lived my life

broken

never wanting

to mend

Killing every

emotion

that was poisoned

on end

Denuding their

power

I went on

my way

And forty years

later

content

— and remade

 

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Betrayal Is Fatal

 

A human

German Shephard

you get only

one chance

Mistreatment

is terminal

and you’re barred

from the dance

My loyalty

total

beyond question

or fear

But betrayal

is fatal

and banishment

— clear

 

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Both Bleeding Red

 

A disease

or an ailment

who gets to decide

 

What matters

the name

when two planets collide

 

Tomato

tomatto

they’re both bleeding red

 

Beyond what

you call them

— beyond what is said

 

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Point Of No Return

 

With hate

there’s still hope

When emotions flatline

— it’s over

 

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But In Name

 

More than strangers

less than friends

Forced estrangement

time portends

 

Brothers — Sisters

but in name

Exiled feelings

— parental shame

 

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