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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July 20, 2026

Where god lives

Between the feet of mountainsStone swords of cosmic warThrust sharply to the surfaceColliding at Earth’s core Where on the blade the seasonsAt once can show all fourAlong the rock serratedSnowcap to desert floor But not in ornate buildingsWhere holiness is boughtPower cloaking mouths from whichHypocrisy is taughtInverting every pocketTo earn in grace a spot… When… 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 17, 2026

Earthly Starlight

Follow me from where it’s loudTo silent lighthouse on the soundBlinking light between the eyesSigning shelter from the tide The light is no low flying planeNor ship that sails the other wayLet earthly starlight pull your gazeGuide you safely through the waves Through howling keenLet light be seen Follow me from acrid tastesTo sweeter shores… 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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February 5, 2026

Sun and Snow

Crystal blankets heavyCold cover winter’s bonesBoth the dead and sleepingThe living and the stone Powder sharply shimmersSleeves trees with crooked armsClothing naked natureConcealing manmade harm Ash and boneHidden priceScourge of fireShroud of ice Cloud did layer deeplyThe filth of land belowBeneath the purest veilOf leaden ice and snow And where horizon meetsThe mirror glaze of… Continue reading

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January 27, 2026

Moonlit Mending

Curving needle shines on highRises with the fall of nightPulls on bloodflow like the tideBinding lifeforce far and wide Spooling frozen breaths that riseAtmospheric thread through eyePlanet rolls the ends to tieHoles to make to mend torn time Piercing through burnt velvet sky Astral medic sutures whereTime left wounds both broad and bareEdges spread by… Continue reading

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January 12, 2026

Sanctuary

Push to start, stall raging heartPrayer of safetyGet in gear, sleeve up the tearsDrive to escape me Move to drown, in blaring soundThoughts that would break meOne more trip, white knuckle gripNight roads erase me From heavy homeStrike out aloneIn sanctuary Find the dark, drive fast and farPrayer now screamingBack the din, four-minute hymnsBeg intervening… Continue reading

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December 15, 2025

Blog: T’is the Season

It’s been a bit since I wrote last – anything at all, even to myself. People often refer to losing momentum as a function of the holiday season, everything being so ‘busy.’ The adjective I might use instead is ‘loud.’ Every man-made object in and out of the home has a screen that is shouting… Continue reading

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