Jeff's Poetry

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Mind

36 poems · all collections

childish notions

November 11, 2025 · Mind

a child questions his parent's faith, why ma, why pa did you choose that religion? and they nodded wisely at their lovely kid, because god exist and his name is blah blah. oh really, the enthusiastic child beams at the attention, how do you know that his name is blah blah? did he tell you?
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pieces of you

October 24, 2025 · Mind

a puzzle i thought solved, or that i had all the pieces that you withheld in your heart, the mind games played but you self deceived and that is benign
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tentative

October 24, 2025 · Mind

we both knew not the lines, because they say it is too complex and making vague helps. helps who? i wondered. flipping burgers is said to be simple, the mind games not so much,
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sly

October 3, 2025 · Mind

it stinks, it is hideous, it is obscene though beauty is mirage at least that is how the narrative goes when truth matters not because truth has become perception gold flows, buys all
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weave

September 26, 2025 · Mind

the spirits dwelling within made small talk like the skin tightening, relaxing as another mirror reflects back having similar interplay of relaxation then stress, when words fall on damp soil unable to grow.
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Fog

September 12, 2025 · Mind

mist everywhere, it is difficult to tell when the line truly is and the whispers are all around, each one sounding like it might be from behind, to the right, left, center till the mind becomes dull from too much, over stimulation but the light is all about, sometimes getting clearer, other times it seemed more like a trick of the eye, the mind wanders
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Anxiety

October 6, 2023 · Mind

Tic, the tic, again eye muscle spasms: not really for the mind is flooding with thoughts of all kinds, each box opened, a clown jumps out holding another box, another box
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Shattered

September 26, 2023 · Mind

I fell, and what a fall it was though this is no humpty dumpty, it still hurts very much and I find childhood tales so close to truth, of life's experiences and growing up,
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