Alchemic Verse

Transmuting pain to poetry

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October 2, 2026

Blog: Slips, Steps and Song

It’s been some time since the last blog, and the poetry has been slower to come too as life transitions to a new step. Eighty or so baking summer days have passed, and in those hottest weeks, the heat set the soul alight, boiling the blood to high-pressure steam, driving the engine of my body… Continue reading

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September 13, 2026

By and By

By miracle’s experimentBy cosmic flint and steelA name first marking life’s portentA label made me real Violently the nurture toolingWhat nature made at coreAnd whichever overrulingThe other kept the score And from that war I boreA definition By suffering’s predicamentBy broken home and heartA weight to bear in discontentA warping from the start Painfully the… Continue reading

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August 25, 2026

Like Pouring Concrete in the Rain

A rearview mirror glance at all behindThe rubble packed in boxes and my mindBeside hope innocent and fear so blindAnd blurry sketch of what I’d like to find The demolition plays before my eyesCrescendo and in infinite repriseA futile masochistic exerciseWhile begging for the pain to make me wise Like someone who knows how to… Continue reading

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July 10, 2026

Blog: It’s Been

It’s been seven years on the 4th since my ex asked me to marry him. Seven years later, my life is unrecognizable and nowhere near where the woman that replied yes thought this would go. It’s been a year since I started blogging about Life Yeet 2025, a collection of changes in all aspects of… Continue reading

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May 8, 2026

Hot Take: Life Soup

There’s a blend of ingredients that make up a life, simmered by the heat of living. A soup well-lived requires being deliberate about the ingredients, the ratios, and the seasonings held in balance with the changing of the seasons. One season calls for hearty root vegetables, barley and cream, another for cooled tomato, bell pepper… Continue reading

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April 29, 2026

Live It Twice

Overflowing days of rain Grow the puddles into lakes Drown the ankles, rust the brakes Run dark circles over drains Void is filled with storms of pain Thunder’s sobs and lightning’s shakes Leaving echoes in their wake Through my lips each form your name Ride the storms in sky and brain Live it twice to… Continue reading

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April 3, 2026

Aheader

With my eyes on the horizonI never see the flowers at my feetWith fingertips just brushing themYet still my mind would race beyond the beat That my heart makes as the path curvesSo gently through a verdant grove of treesThat searching for the openingBlind to the birds alighting next to me What if I miss… Continue reading

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March 28, 2026

Coax

Bend low and meet the eyesExtend hand held loosely closedShift thoughts from fear’s demiseTake it slow in the approach Short breath brought through the noseOut the mouth locked tight with teethDeep pain as anger showsAnd protection blocks relief A wounded beastFears what it needsHeal to releaseAnd take the lead Tiptoe and bear the soundDeepen growl… Continue reading

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March 15, 2026

Blog: New Physics and New Life

Progress and travel generate a build of momentum, the mass of the decision multiplied by the velocity with which the moves are made. After some time in stony but familiar soil, I have taken to the sea again. The course I charted was an aggressive one, 6 hours in the car with a dog being… Continue reading

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February 21, 2026

Bloom

Of clay and rock borneSo crookedly grownBlown bare by the windRoots shallow in stone Reach limbs from seed sownCut greedily backLow from the harvestSurviving in lack Unable to bloom Sharp shear and scythe hackKeen takers carve looseShape weapon or fuelNew growth to reduce Sole value in useSap soothing the sickPotent the poisonFrom spindle thorn’s prick… Continue reading

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