By Bruno Talerico
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I begin this day in goodnessI begin this day in kindness.Oh! Good kind star!Just the right size, just the right distance,to warm this wonderful world, just the right amountat just the right time to foster life.Oh! Radiant wonder!I begin this day in gratitude.Thank you for this beautiful morning!© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 203/365.
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You lost your life andlike an amputation,I lost part of my self. I still feel pain in the part of me where you reside.Each day I bleed invisible dropletsonto pages of my life.They say time heals,and it is true.There is no longera need for a tourniquetto stem the flow.Although a band-aid does the trick, it…
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Is it true that Canada plans to annexWashington, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Maine?Is it true that Panama plans to take controlof the canal that traverses their country?Is it true that Mexico got Trump to build the wallto keep the gringos out of their beautiful country?Is it true that Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islandswill become…
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In the sleepless hours,unresolved worries act as beadsin the insomniac necklace.Like movies at the drive in, needles-in-haystacks,misplaced keys,unwarranted fearsand unearned trophiesget projected inside our skull.Things that don’t quite fit, haunting questions,existential confusions,sneaky suspicionsand imaginary insults expand exponentially intoa self-important möbius bandof non-precious stonespretending they are rubies and sapphires. Random concernsfixate our attentionuntil, before we know…
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What is the destiny of Gaia’s childrenWaves of potentialities collapsing,bundles of imperturbable criticalities.Placid animal urges.Pastward convergences.Frogs croakat the edge of the pond,as catfish soak in the deep,near the green meadowcarpeted with grass,trees cloaked in velvety moss.What is the destiny of Luna’s offspring?In a gradualist creeping wayits possible to know a lotand still be unable to…
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at the 180th meridian the international date line, an imaginary linedivides yesterday from tomorrow.walking east,i lean into the future,heading west,i recede into history.only wheni straddle the lineam i groundedin the imaginary present© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 199/365.International Date Line trivia:Fiji is the only place in the world where one can walk across the international date…
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even if we could reach them in a human lifespanmost of the planets out there are toxic to humanityso why think about colonization of space when we can’t even keep our own house clean earth is the only planetwhere humans can walk freelynaked under the sunbreathing the winddrinking the wateryet we seem intent to destroy…
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Earth thinks in circles,dreams in spirals, innautilus shell revolutions. She paints in sprays of wildflowers, clusters of moss and lichens,stands of trees, fields of grass.She moves in tidal dances, forward and back, in stretches of timetoo long for human comprehension.She tells her stories across eons. Her epics occupy epochs.Humanity is not excused from her dance.Every…
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mentality of the shooter:flip the coinheadsi shoot myselfand cause miseryfor my friends and family tailsi shoot someone elseand cause miseryfor your friends and family too badthere’sno such thing asa two-tailed coin.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 196/365.Image found on the internet.
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the poets responsibilities,according to Bukowski,are to jerk off aloneand to write a good page.this morning,being a responsible poet,i’ve already bashed one out alone.what would Bukowski think of this page?Stafford challenge 195/365.© 2025 Bruno Talerico
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