i am the quiet type of chaos

the emptiness inside of me could fill the universe

you are never not on my mind

“An eye for an eye will only
make the whole world blind.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#poetry #cosopoetry #tanka

That thrill of first touch
their shy hands to hair and skin
every morning,
meteors blaze water to
new earths where old bodies swim

Fries in her left hand
Lollipop dipped in ketchup
Toddler dinner time

#cosopoetry #cosohaiku

My translation, from Polish, of a tragic poem by Tadeusz Borowski, one of the most chilling Holocaust poets I've ever read. Backstory in thread

"You will not come back to me. Neither
will the fog-drunken wind return.
The dead won't rise from common graves,
the brittle ash cannot unburn...."

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#cosopoetry

the making of soup,
the pencil's arc,
the imagined expression,
the simply rebellious,
the protection of is,
the raw ingredient,
the rejection for cause,
the acceptance of isn't,

a cleansed effect,
in glistening eyes,
and shared affect