Poetically Unlicensed
Fiction, poetry, and essays with little rhyme or reason by Jeremy C Kester
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Boredom Call (opens the original)
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Please consider subscribing if you haven’t already. You can support me best by restacking this post and buying one of my books from the links at the bottom. Thanks! Enjoy.-JeremyText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedLet the boredom come Allow it to seep in Absorb my being into it Sitting in the moment calm Unknowing of time or motive To simply be within My mind to face itself What it is so desperately hiding My own shortcomings Things I wish not to be Done witho
Time (opens the original)
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Please consider subscribing if you haven’t already. You can support me best by restacking this post and buying one of my books from the links at the bottom. Thanks! Enjoy.-JeremyText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedA simple leaf The first I noticed Yellow and falling Though time seems far Autumn must begin And on my knee I find it Waiting as I am Time is passing Seasons changing Years slipping by And what am I waiting for?<div class="captioned-image-cont
Taking Notice (opens the original)
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Please consider subscribing if you haven’t already. You can support me best by restacking this post and buying one of my books from the links at the bottom. Thanks! Enjoy.-JeremyText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedStill air surrounds the morning As the smell of coffee greets me Watching dark clouds near A strange twilight of early morning Welcoming storms and rain Mother Nature playing her part I watch it here, patient They do little to stop life Much less eve
Bandaged (opens the original)
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Cutting food is not a good time to get distractedBandagedby Jeremy C KesterSharp. It was sharp. Both the pain and the object causing it. Delilah put down the small knife and sucked on her hand at the place the blade cut her. She wasn’t certain how it happened other than the momentary carelessness, the distraction, that circled her mind.Could she blame him for that? It was his image crossing over her attention in the moment, overlaying the vegetables in front of her.Whenever she used a knife, too
Opposite Motives (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI strive to know how To push steps forward Even while progress moves Directionless to my desires Shall I give up here and now Changing my aim toward Another thing in safer groves To beat this feeling stuck in mires Sanity welcomes both in tow Work and laziness in simple award Benefits found both behooves Yet truly only one inspires<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/im
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