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A morning meditation

Carl Setzer

Contentment pulls
Me back to slumber
Despair’s grip
Weakens

Anxiety lurks
Waiting to
Wreck havoc

If we loved beauty 

Carl Setzer

Imagine if
We obsessed
Over beauty
With the
Same energy
We invest
Into rage

Of Stars And God

Carl Setzer

We are made in God’s image
Glorious bits of star stuff
Pieces of the cosmos

This Summer’s Morning 

Carl Setzer

​Awoke by the rooster’s call

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p style=”font-family:"”>Train horn echoing miles to me 

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p style=”font-family:"”>White noise from cars

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p style=”font-family:"”>Hurtling down the freeway 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Birds speaking much as they have 

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p style=”font-family:"”>For millennia uncounted 

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p style=”font-family:"”>A look into the boundaries 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Of infinity 

Perhaps 

Carl Setzer

Perhaps I cannot 

Change much in 

This broken world 

Where cynicism 

Valued more 

Than compassion. 

Perhaps. 

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I drove through this town 
Historically Floridian
Just after dusk 

Children biked past 
To safe security 
Of electric lighting 
Dinners, cleanliness
And the dreams 
Of being beloved 

Yellowish glow 
Flows from glass 
Interrupting the night’s
Dark embrace. 

I wonder what 
Such sensation 
Feels like 

Thunder Struck 

Carl Setzer

brilliant arcs 

cross the sky

boisterous clamor 

accompanies

impressive qualities

nature’s domination

reminded 

Once I LISTENED to Music 

Carl Setzer

​No longer 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Do I listen deeply 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Pulling apart 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Words, lyrics 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Melody 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Harmony 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Trying so hard 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>To embrace

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>A song’s

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Soul