jopomojo

jopomojo

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  • Bob Dylan's Dream

    Bob Dylan’s Dream It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry when the night comes falling from the sky. When the deal goes down, when I paint my masterpiece, when he returns, when the ship comes in lay down your weary tune. Standing in the doorway, watching the river flow, visions of Johanna blowin' in the wind on a night like this, tangled up in blue, I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you.



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    1 min
  • The Sun Rises by Keeping Still *

    * second set for paid subscribers everyone (unpaywalled)

    The sun rises by keeping still —
    A model of meditation.
    Think again. The whole solar
    System is speeding through space at
    Five hundred thousand miles per hour —
    This morning's meditation.



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    1 min
  • The Cars (a sonnet)

    Candy-O, / let's go — / it's all I can do. / You're all I've got tonight, / moving in stereo / since I held you. / Good times roll, / lust for kicks, / don't cha stop — / I'm in touch with your world. / You can't hold on too long, / misfit kid. / Touch and go. / Don't tell me no.



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    1 min
  • The Things Mary Oliver Spoke of

    The "things" Mary Oliver spoke of
    Are more like living talismans
    Of heightened reality,
    The gratuitous family
    We can either fight or celebrate
    In the wonder of the sun.

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    1 min
  • All the Times I've Looked at This Tree

    * second photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone (unpaywalled)



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    1 min
  • The Bailiwick of the Broken Light

    Of the morning coming hard and bright



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    1 min
  • The Continuity of Sky

    A slit of serious sunrise
    Above ironic cargo
    Nonetheless signifies
    Deliverance from, if not
    Evil, at least the ossified
    Circumstances of the long night.
    The continuity of sky
    Above the absurdities
    Of the highway and constant
    Pep rallies of artifice
    Is there for us if we merely
    Lift up our eyes to the heavens.



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    1 min
  • My Dreams Have Been Resisting Me

    My dreams have been resisting me,
    Slipping with the sunrise into
    The murky waters of
    Forgetful wakefulness
    Just when I thought I should have arrived
    At a state of supreme consciousness.
    The sunrise has been resisting
    My inquiries of the morning
    Just when I had imagined
    Each puzzle piece perfectly
    Clicking into place when in fact
    They are scattered across the day.



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    1 min
  • See These Last Few Sunrises

    See these last few sunrises
    With vision made clear by letting go.
    Hug yourself in the light
    To stay warm in the morning wind.
    Soon you’ll be traveling into
    That light with the one you love.
    The sunrise is not a mere
    Ornament of a smartphone pic—
    Although it is that—but it
    Is also the eternal now
    Showing its face for a moment
    To give grace to your travels.

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    1 min

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