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River runs over

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Traveling Richard Stoia

There is a time for a change when the rain
That flows down the drain
Aacross the tracks when the train
Begins to feel the pain
Of a thousands hands
That gather illustrious strands of platinum sands.

Untitled

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Traveling Richard Stoia

Dark and cold the pain so old
With nothing in sight but lack of light
Untouched and lost without a cost

Revealing essence is lacking presence
Aloof by design one must resign
A lust to consent a trust for dissent

Open to shine and free to define
The way to dream like a flowing stream
Unlocks the thoughts that one has brought

Forever altering, for never ends
The thoughts and dreams that we begin
Until our void consumes once again

Devoid

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Traveling Richard Stoia

Twisted feelings, darkening disaster
By far the worst, lacking a master

Lost and tired of trying harder
To find a place inside that matters

Thrusted further deeper darker
Beyond one’s light or a marker

Lost at sea and lost at life
Without a coast, nothing but strife

Weakened resolve by placing trust
By vacant feelings that turn to dust

Empty inside without a guide
One that’s lost devoid of pride

When will it end the feelings of dread
Miles traveled, soul of lead

Perseverance a trait that will relate
To the beginning, a change of state

Otherworldly strength consumes the hate
Of self-loathing’s ominous trait

Mean-ing

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Traveling Richard Stoia

Creeping crawling falling laughing, my mind cannot keep from cracking
Tenderness so sweet and lost, times when passion turns to frost
Behind the past a bitterness, relishes a pleasant loneliness
Morning comes and night follows suit, the hole inside unfilled and moot
What becomes of one so great, by which that one depends on fate
To turn the tide to spin the hands, that keeps the time that falls to land
Changing churning yearning needing, a place a person a useful meaning
Begin again a day has come, to light a day of tedium

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Traveling Richard Stoia

down so far
beyond the calling
far away
so far in time
the time when life could rhyme
so far so far in time

a place i find becomes a line
shared within a fading whine
why this place, so far behind
a chance, a moment yet undefined
going somewhere a place in dust
the new desert, an old dusk

no more i can’t take it this can’t be true
the empty feeling coming through
beyond the gallows and past the trust
the evil laughter of gravities crush
bones shatter and sinew rusts
lungs burst from electric lusts

flames erupt with hallowed crack
the gates a sunder no turning back
truth destroys the master plan
of one who dies a silent man
no point or reason can escape
the pull the dance that truth negates

coming back arising true
like a phoenix it is renewed
a lust for life a return of passion
blinding praise, resounding fashion
ego alters an alter ego
and ergo he goes without an equal

Nightly Wanderings

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Traveling Richard Stoia

A bright inner smile
Illuminates a wrought souls
Enclosed confusion

Light cannot escape
A hole so black it absorbs
Everything but heat

Creativity
Quenches a parched intellects
Absent stimulus

Tougher than granite
Emotionless expression
Alive or deceased

Beyond what has been
Imagination beckons
Futures that will be

Transistors of light
Bring to life what was once dead
Automaton lives

Beauty in all things
Every culture has a light
That makes us equal

Incendiary
Interplanetary-space
Consumed by the sun

Being gargantuan
One heart encompassing us
Utterly serene

Greater than before
Joyful pleasure of learning
Absolute knowledge

5 times 26

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Traveling Richard Stoia

Allowing asterisks altering allegories after
Blue barges bathing behind bungalows
Carbonated carbide carbuncles creepily construct
Dimly drawn dwarves desire dragons
Elegant erroneous entertainers extrude entirety
Following flower folding flightless falcons
Grumpy grounds gathering grimy golems
Hysterical hiding hunching hollering hastily
Iridescent illuminates Illuminati ignorance intrinsically
Jaundice jello jaunts justly jealously
Kimonos kidnap kidney kinematics knavishly
Lordly linguists lavish Luddite longhorns
Monotone monotony muddles mundane magistrates
Never-ending nightmares nourish nutritious neophytes
Outlandish octagons oscillate orthogonal ostriches
Planetary pesticides placate pumpkin paupers
Quirky quacking quarters quasi quanta
Rancid regulators revolutionize rigid ratios
Sultry sulking sunders sensational sycophants
Tremendous tuberculosis terrorizes tricky tumbleweeds
Unsanitary underwear utilizes unintelligent users
Voluptuous vultures victimize vacant valedictorians
Worship wrongs willing workers whenever
Xenophobic x-rays Xerox xenon xylophones
Youthful yuletide yellow-tails yield yearly
Zesty Zanzibar zebras zouk zealously

Richard

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Traveling Richard Stoia

Reveal in the things that make you smile
Ingenious thoughts, ingenious questions
Careless time wasting resolves nothing
Harmonious intentions generate unprecedented experiences
Aesthetic ambiance initiates enlightened ideals
Righteous judgments obstructs cultural diversity
Development of self is constant