P Mason

poem by P Mason

Suddenly, you left as quickly as you arrived In Between you sent notes, touched, came Close enough to taste, smell, kiss, feel, love and Then vanish. You turned to ice as quickly as you exposed your warmth and tenderness... Read more

poem by P Mason

12-4-16. Shattered Another shattered Sunday, football, my beef stew, chatter with friends, liquor.... men searching answers to unanswered conundrums. The puzzles circles, endlessly always around the same topics.... Read more

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Inaugural thoughts Restlessness and angst swirling around like so much smoke and dust in the breezes of uncertainty people fretful and worried for uncharted futures. Darkness and cold, metaphors for th... Read more

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Twenty years ago All this might all have been quite different. Not so marred by the complications of this moment. But there is no going back to what can not be And never was. Twenty years ago. Slivers of time, in memorie... Read more

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Ending conversation So here we are Here we go. You're very important to me, and a good deal more, as I've told you. But these mountains piled in front of the door are just to much right now, At least for me. I ... Read more

poem by P Mason

Depression A grey day No sun breaks the sky. The cold slaps at the lungs with each breath drawn. Ripples of pain shoot through his back, spreading in the concentric circles as a pebble is thrown into a pond. Left t... Read more

poem by P Mason

Books piled on tables On the floor In a bookcase. Dogeared in places, Some open, most closed. To whom do they belong? Pictures ring the walls of the house. Children: older, younger, and younger still. Who are they, why are... Read more

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Is this creative? Tonight, for some reason I write. Hammered Ossified Rumbling and stumbling about on an edge of some misguided Creative endeavor. It's likely not very good But I care not a whit, Only because I sat ... Read more

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Love is vexing.... How does one deal with the 'complicated relationship'? How do you deal with a love that carries burdens ? I have no idea, though, In many ways, none of this is really new ground for me. In my young... Read more

poem by P Mason

12-25-16 Holidays Christmas and New Years come but once a year, And even that is to much. I have aged I moved north to forget failed marriages failed relationships failing health. My children left towards their ... Read more

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Ephemera ..... You left as quickly as you arrived. Suddenly. Between these ends there were notes, we embraced, you came Close enough to taste, smell, kiss, feel, love. We talked, we touched, we felt warm, I think, with each... Read more

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Chasing dreams Chasing hopes Chasing love Chasing myths We dream, hope, and pray That our existence means Something to Someone. We fail repeatedly We cry We wallow in our Sorrow We keep trying Only to fail Ye... Read more

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Shadow There is a shadow standing at the foot of my bed. Each morning, as the light seeps in through the cracks in the blinds, I see him emerge. Standing, simply staring with coal black eyes, clad only in a shroud Scythe in ha... Read more

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Cancer progresses Bad news, expensive news Feel fine, not fine. Drop a drug, start a new one. $10,000 a month Fucking yikes ! Easier just to die. Sometimes you simply have to ask What's the point? Cancer progresses Read more

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My compulsion leaks out of my soul everyday. Waiting like Pavlov's dog each moment for some little treat to feed my desire. simple two word texts are my treats. Saying little and only suggesting, for the second it takes for ... Read more

poem by P Mason

The road drifts north along an empty shore. It goes somewhere away from all that pressures the soul and heart of those alone in this world. Headed no place certain, just alone. Mulling endlessly of histories that neve... Read more

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Are you back ? Seems in a way you are. I can't see you, I can't touch you, but you're here somewhere. Perhaps you've always been here, in my thoughts, In my soul My heart My desire Read more

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Yet again Crashing back and forth between delight and Disappointment Racking my brain and Soul For something to define my Presence and Existence. Short cryptic comments delivered without Apparently So much as a pass... Read more

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Memories woven loosely together as in a dream.... Scattered across my soul in movement, stillness and silence No focus, no direction and yet overflowing with A pain as new as the morning and as old as the oceans. Piercing my h... Read more

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Again the silence And it echoes through my shattered soul like a thunderstorm Careening across the Nebraska prairie on a warm And humid afternoon. Why will you not simply confront What is your goal? Simply to shut off An... Read more

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Trying to sort out the day. 4 hours waiting with nothing while 'software' was slopped off to my jeep.... manufacturer mandate.... I read...I thought too much...I shuffled my feet I simply waited I pondered where I was.... I w... Read more

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Iiving in confusion, living in uncertainty... Drifting in and out of puzzles. Where do we exist Where does life begin for Us.... where does it end. We seek comfort and warmth We seek companions We seek love. We seek an ... Read more

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I've never been seriously shot, Oh sure, a minor flesh wound in my right calf from being on the edge of a 12 gage shotgun spread, But that barely warrants a mention. But I've seen others that have been seriously shot, some were m... Read more

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11-16-16. Loving ? How many ways does love rip holes in our soul. Often it arrives unexpectedly, in odd places, at odd times and incomprehensible moments. You're not looking for it, but suddenly there it is... right i... Read more

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11-16-16. Dulcinea I sat with you today For the first time in six weeks. You looked wonderful to me, but I can't believe I'd ever see you in any other light. That is because of where I am am, I still don't know where ... Read more

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11-14-15 Restlessness and anxiety swarm across my being Searching, seeking, answers to unasked questions. Darkness comes early Answers never arrive. Life exists in questions Never asked, never answered. Questions are s... Read more

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Hazy memories of a life and loves that never Happened. Days drift silently to night Nights to days A quiet haze of obscure and fuzzy memories that go nowhere. Visitors stop by to render confirmation of Your existence is evi... Read more

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Minute by minute Minute by minute Hour by hour Day by day Week by week Sliding into months, years, An eternity. An endless procession of time for a life never lived. Existing only in the fading dreams of that Whic... Read more

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Cold, sterile, blank, empty, why bother with any of this It has no place to go. It's a cascading glacial river of loss and sadness vanishing into a bottomless pit buried In a vortex of shattered dreams. Ending as dried m... Read more

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ANOTHER DAY Almost every morning since you vanished into my memories I hear again from you... it is meaningful, warm, and comforting. I yearn to hold you closer than the words on this page Will allow. Will I ever see ... Read more

poem by P Mason

25 January 2017 Spinning Circles Spinning circles in a hole; relationships going nowhere. Nothing that could be done will fix these complications. Except to leave, to get out of the hole, escape moments, dreams and memorie... Read more