“Silence is Unfaithful” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

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Silence is unfaithful

Fleeing when needed most

Every ring of the phone

Leaves me feeling alone

Is today the day

With words too fragile

Did it hurt

A body going inert

Where do screams migrate

When flesh goes cold

-Thomas Typewriter

“Work Ethic” – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

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My words were never magnificent,

too full of awkward pauses.

too distant from the Muses’ golden songs

Until then

Until I reach that beautiful chorus

And words explode from my vibrating bones

fully formed

graceful

dancing

Across the page.

Until then I repeat

repeat

repeat

Stacking phrases and random words like building blocks

into towers lopsided, and not always lasting

more wreckage for the next

a new poem: “Their Hyperion Ethos” by Thomas Typewriter

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The unfinished poet rides horses of wild talent

having fled the chariot, lost to the sun

No More guiding ropes

No more frantic hopes

There is only holding on as the distances fly by

Eyes shut, landscapes unseen whisper and scream

Words pile and stack high

Watch where horses step

Hooves catch snapping across overlapping concepts

The poet tumbles down splashing somewhere profound

a new poem: “A Dress Code for Words” by Thomas Typewriter

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Which words are falsely dressed as fear?

Covered in coats spun from pain, misunderstanding, and rejection

freely provided by my own interior designs.

Labyrinths and fun house mirror started by another but self-finished.

My awareness has a dress code it turns out.

The words dislike these new wardrobes.

They struggle against the ill-fitting fabrics.

Most will tire and comply, behaving in new ways.

But a few, a gift-to-all few, will pop the buttons and rip the seams.

Casting off their coats, their nakedness startles me.

Reminds me.

The world is beautiful and I sometimes forget.