Adapting To A Mask

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adaptation, art, creativewriting, danger, literature, necessity, poetryblog, read, skill

Talking with a mask on is a nuisance.
I open my mouth, I speak
Well into my conversation, I taste
Cloth.
Dry cloth folding in-between my lips
Kissing my tongue

In the instant before speaking
My Flight senses activate
“This is not normal! Is this what we’ve evolved to?”

Talking with a mask on is a hazard of life
And I hope you had forgotten your specs, but either way
You’re blind.
Fume starts clouding your vision
Tripping on isle five—vegetable station.
How to explain to the smiling essential worker

Why logs of yam
Boomerang plantain
Droplets of taro
Rocks of potato
All piled on the floor.
With a broken phone, unfit human
Loose leaves floating, onto the ceramic

Wearing these CDC-recommended masks is a ridicule
My ears being pushed forward like a monkey
We’re all walking around looking like a monkey
And the pain at the back of the ear is an unending story
I did not survive the hunting and gathering for this.

The air behind this mask is different.
Breathing wants to feel like
Inhaling through a stack of hay.
My body has to remind itself,
“You’re okay.”
You don’t have to activate your flight Tendency.

Because at least you can breathe,
At least you can see
At least you can hear
At least you can speak
At least you’re alive.

@Sircharlesthepoet

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Please, wear a mask. Thank you for reading.

How I Escaped Engineering School

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artist, Author, book, e-book, engineering, escape, poem, poet, poetry, read, Words, write

And there it is! How I Escaped Engineering School is out now, waiting for you to give it a read. Go to Sellfy.com/Sircharlesthepoet to get yourself a copy!!
Thank you for supporting!

Where’d Our Dreams Go? (Part 1)

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children, dreams, image, imagination, poem, poetry, read, reading, smile, wonder, writing, young

Where did our dreams go?
Where inside us is the child hidden?
Lost fairy tales where wonder and smiles lie waiting
between reality
and dusty pages.
What happened to the universe
of unending wonder
where we’d coast on the wings of imagination?

Stillness in Defeat

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Bird, capture, defeat, game, intense, lose, poem, poetry, read, score, tea, victory, Words, writing

The particles in the air were not moving. 
 
The bird’s warning was on its way across 
The frame of the window  
 
To be received by mouths opening their closing.
 
At the same time, the half display 
On the TV reaches out to the fleeing signal 
 
Adam eagerly reaches for God’s fingers. 
 
But not until the cup of tea frozen in time falls 
To nourish the ground 
 
The door is scarcely opening…or is it closing? 
 
The victorious team had just lost its victory 
Two scores and one inch ago. 

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Moon Soul (Prt. 2)

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art, beauty, Fighter, Moon, night, Ocean, poem, poetry, read, Sea, Soul, wisdom, writer

I will write and scribble and scratch
Because some souls are attractive
But hers is victorious,
Through her cries flooding the sea
And scaring the oceans away, bearing the ocean floor
To being a canvas for her to scribble her sentiments, Her moments
Her beauty, hidden in her soul

So I scratch, powered by my endeavor
Until she opens, like a wild receiver
And.
Surprisingly enough it turns out:

You need not to aim for the beholder,
But the sword illuminated

You need not to find beauty at the sight of her
But the soul, under the moon nested.

Copyright © 2016 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

Moon Soul (Prt. 1)

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Ancient, beautiful, Girl, love, Moon, night, poem, poetry, read, Soul, write

I will write about the girl that made love to me under the night sky after she had poured out her soul with me under the retreat in dusk
The girl that bared her soul like a knight’s sword naked
Under the moon light
And suddenly her soul started glowing light like a knight’s sword
Under the moon light.

She was the knight, her soul was the sword
As she opens her throat to let escape chapters of the battles she’s been through
Chapters she’s written on and on
And ridden on
With a horse of literature.
Neat writing because her life contained a disastrous creature.

Copyright © 2016 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

The Hallway of Shadows and Life

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Blessing, facts, happy, human, life, Light, Mystery, Pain, poem, poet, poetry, read, Shadow, truth

Honey, I guess you have to walk
Through the hallway with shadows
Of death
While you hope the other side
Has light and life that heals
Your soul.

Copyright © 2016 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

New book published!

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art, artist, book, love, Passion, poem, poet, poetry, read, write, writer

http://www.thegoodbrainproject.org/drop-of-a-hat.html

Hello my fellow writers, readers, artists and adventurers! Last year, the founder of The Goodbrain project presented me with an opportunity to publish some of my poems as a book. Without a second thought, I took the opportunity and have been working on the book since then. This book is my first published book and without further ado, I present to you: Loverboy (cover art by a friend of mine, Fahmida…Instagram: @fami__ ).

Loverboy is a 3 volume series of poems about a boy as he experience the different effects of love. Please, if you’d like to support, click on the link above or below and you will be redirected to a page with a short form to fill out. After filling out the form, you will be emailed an invoice with information asking about where the book should be delivered and how you’d like to pay for the book.

Thank you very much for supporting me. This is my first book and I could not be more appreciative of each book that you buy.
Cheers~

http://www.thegoodbrainproject.org/drop-of-a-hat.html