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- 5977
- We want the world
- 5978
- What we long for
- 5979
- It's never too late
- 5980
- Much of what I loved
- 5981
- Tug of War
- 5982
- The best thing in life
- 5983
- Wonder
- 5984
- Nothing matters
- 5985
- The Implications of Prophecy
- 5986
- Life 83
- 5987
- Abstraction 2
- 5988
- We see it coming
- 5989
- Life 84
- 5990
- To The Next
- 5991
- Life 85
- 5992
- I had less than I wanted.
- 5993
- If we can't bring the what-was with us
- 5994
- Conspicuous
- 5995
- I Try To Tell Myself
- 5996
- Rescue
- 5997
- Less and Less
- 5998
- Miscalculation
- 5999
- Aliens
- 6000
- Life 86
- 6001
- Which Is Exactly What
- 6002
- The Cacophony of Alphabet
- 6003
- To The Lecturer On Poetry
- 6004
- Whispers
- 6005
- The Halt
- 6006
- Life 87
- 6007
- Can I have it back?
- 6008
- The only addiction
- 6009
- Say it 2
- 6010
- Every decision
- 6011
- Think
- 6012
- I know the mirror
- 6013
- To say something new, beautifully.
- 6014
- Tire Swing
- 6015
- Every day 3
- 6016
- On Culture
- 6017
- Life 88
- 6018
- The Stars 2
- 6019
- They, yesterday, never expected today.
- 6020
- That which lies
- 6021
- The Poem of the Law
- 6022
- Don't look at me.
- 6023
- Life 89
- 6024
- Imagine 5
- 6025
- What would the wind be
- 6026
- The Arrangement
- 6027
- History Lesson 2
- 6028
- Vista
- 6029
- Warmth becomes heat
- 6030
- Listen to a stone.
- 6031
- A Message
- 6032
- The Poisonous Dragon
- 6033
- Burns
- 6034
- Poem after poem
- 6035
- Conversation 3
- 6036
- Will you trade me
- 6037
- I was not before.
- 6038
- The beginning of a marriage seems better
- 6039
- The way 4
- 6040
- A moment a man
- 6041
- We pass past
- 6042
- I have carried my child-self through life.
- 6043
- Opposition to authority
- 6044
- First we love the idea of free will.
- 6045
- The Tradition 2
- 6046
- In The Begending
- 6047
- The Emotions
- 6048
- A poem is a claim
- 6049
- Polyphonic
- 6050
- Make a mound
- 6051
- The thing always disappoints.
- 6052
- Status Report
- 6053
- Be Careful
- 6054
- Imagine!
- 6055
- Put it on my tombstone
- 6056
- Let some build new wonders
- 6057
- To make music
- 6058
- Le Bon Mot Is A Lie
- 6059
- Weakness
- 6060
- The Rules
- 6061
- A Whole Life
- 6062
- Pay Attention
- 6063
- This Thought
- 6064
- Show me a new border
- 6065
- Today is always the great divide
- 6066
- A Fraud
- 6067
- Just Before
- 6068
- Remove one thing, add one thing
- 6069
- More Terrible
- 6070
- On Frustration
- 6071
- Giant stones
- 6072
- Every Time 2
- 6073
- The Hero & The Narrator
- 6074
- Born a cloud
- 6075
- Only when something ends
- 6076
- Everything 16
- 6077
- Technology
- 6078
- War 4
- 6079
- Never 2
- 6080
- Before I lived I was nothing.
- 6081
- The Pattern 3
- 6082
- According To One Model
- 6083
- We encounter
- 6084
- Irreparable, we break
- 6085
- Perpetual Motion Machine
- 6086
- To know something is to hold
- 6087
- Because the end never came
- 6088
- I take back nothing
- 6089
- the whole already
- 6090
- What we want we shall make
- 6091
- I want the dream
- 6092
- The Endless
- 6093
- My Country
- 6094
- The Poem of Today
- 6095
- When I slow down
- 6096
- One Thing At A Time
- 6097
- I like everybody
- 6098
- All I know 2
- 6099
- I remember when
- 6100
- Trust the instinct to move
- 6101
- The Impulse 3
- 6102
- The Creativity Pledge
- 6103
- The Sea of Sadness
- 6104
- Every step 2
- 6105
- We are on thin ice
- 6106
- Do I want to die writing?
- 6107
- I banished the trivial from the world.
- 6108
- Silence 2
- 6109
- So many people
- 6110
- The Origin of the Impulse
- 6111
- No one has ever told me
- 6112
- There's something wrong with the world.
- 6113
- My scream of defiance
- 6114
- Best Is Past
- 6115
- In The Blind Spot
- 6116
- Antieureka
- 6117
- The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
- 6118
- I never thought
- 6119
- I Say Hello
- 6120
- The People In Our Lives
- 6121
- We ask a body
- 6122
- All the loves that wrecked me
- 6123
- Once you meet death
- 6124
- You Should Have Listened
- 6125
- What have I forgotten?
- 6126
- Indeed
- 6127
- I will choose aphorism over anecdote almost every time
- 6128
- Admire bees
- 6129
- It Has Happened Before
- 6130
- All I wanted was to come close
- 6131
- Something relented
- 6132
- It is a violent, stupid world.
- 6133
- Is It Immoral
- 6134
- You brought me nothing I wanted.
- 6135
- How
- 6136
- It is not okay because they tell us it is okay.
- 6137
- The Old Man
- 6138
- My username is Pain.
- 6139
- Speed
- 6140
- Watching bombs fall
- 6141
- Getting to know someone
- 6142
- Hungry for love
- 6143
- Homo Delusio
- 6144
- Large and Small
- 6145
- Destruction | Extinction
- 6146
- What has it all been for?
- 6147
- What silence there would be
- 6148
- The Siren Call
- 6149
- Asseveration
- 6150
- Admit It 3
- 6151
- Thoughts Too Small
- 6152
- What have I brought to the world?
- 6153
- Trying Again
- 6154
- More Less
- 6155
- Of The Things That Lurk In The Dark
- 6156
- There Isn't Time
- 6157
- Look: I am here.
- 6158
- In between the bees
- 6159
- What I Leave To The Laughing World
- 6160
- Life 90
- 6161
- Let everyone be heard
- 6162
- Relinquish everything
- 6163
- The First Rain
- 6164
- The Myth of the One Who Waits
- 6165
- Time 3
- 6166
- Life is not the dream you forget upon waking
- 6167
- Too Small
- 6168
- He Wrote
- 6169
- Does what we created
- 6170
- Diminished
- 6171
- So Dumb
- 6172
- Bad Poem
- 6173
- They will not be satisfied
- 6174
- I meant to live
- 6175
- Love 91
- 6176
- Our Power
- 6177
- The simplest thing
- 6178
- Those girls
- 6179
- So Many Things
- 6180
- We try everything
- 6181
- Nothing Is Real
- 6182
- Winter hit lightly
- 6183
- Not understanding
- 6184
- We spend our lives
- 6185
- What Matters 3
- 6186
- I keep writing the same poem
- 6187
- You, who knew
- 6188
- The Interpreter of Signs
- 6189
- An Ongoing Dilemma
- 6190
- I started a cult
- 6191
- Poems are made of words.
- 6192
- It 2
- 6193
- The Game: How many meanings
- 6194
- Obvious
- 6195
- The ones who amaze me
- 6196
- 7474 Days
- 6197
- Life 91
- 6198
- I see things
- 6199
- In every mirror
- 6200
- I would love
- 6201
- We want a body of water
- 6202
- The Only Luxury
- 6203
- One who wishes to think only
- 6204
- If we murder universes
- 6205
- What is advance
- 6206
- Life 92
- 6207
- It seems wrong
- 6208
- Maybe It Matters
- 6209
- The Job I Wanted
- 6210
- The Shattered Mirror
- 6211
- Older
- 6212
- The origin is irrelevant.
- 6213
- Of Self
- 6214
- The world works so hard to get my attention
- 6215
- Enough 6
- 6216
- In My Head
- 6217
- Memory 3
- 6218
- If no aide is available
- 6219
- Nursery Rhyme XVI
- 6220
- The Oldest Conversation
- 6221
- To My Younger Self
- 6222
- Some Trees
- 6223
- Dream a world of love and peace, they said.
- 6224
- If It Was
- 6225
- In The Mystery
- 6226
- Simplicity is the lie.
- 6227
- Owning The World
- 6228
- It is easier to create darkness where there is light
- 6229
- How Things Work
- 6230
- Life 93
- 6231
- There's always something.
- 6232
- Money, that villain
- 6233
- I think therefore I am seems naive.
- 6234
- Bison.
- 6235
- An observation.
- 6236
- Untouched
- 6237
- Other humans endeavor
- 6238
- We define love
- 6239
- The More There Is
- 6240
- Of Them Of Whom Too Much Is Expected, Of Whom Too Much Is Asked
- 6241
- The Gist 2
- 6242
- Diary Entry
- 6243
- We Must Be Compelled
- 6244
- The Special Auspices
- 6245
- In A Simulation Gone Haywire
- 6246
- Inevitable
- 6247
- I am what changes
- 6248
- What is was not.
- 6249
- People are not what they purport to be.
- 6250
- Last Words
- 6251
- Ever Fading
- 6252
- Complexity
- 6253
- I loved the world more
- 6254
- Life is so narrow—
- 6255
- The Usual Charms
- 6256
- I like a torrential poetry
- 6257
- I Said At The Beginning
- 6258
- Say don't and I might.
- 6259
- The Challenge 3
- 6260
- If Your Heart Isn't In It
- 6261
- Dilemma
- 6262
- Without doing to
- 6263
- Life 94
- 6264
- Genetic Palimpsest
- 6265
- Last Poems
- 6266
- It's not that I mind
- 6267
- We love
- 6268
- Almost All Of It 2
- 6269
- Walking 3
- 6270
- I dabbled and I dallied
- 6271
- The Banality In Bliss
All poems are written and copyrighted by M. C. Rush.
None may be republished or repurposed without permission.