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Visit http://maladjusted.us for more of my poetry, or check out my author page on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20466382.Ted_Mallory

  April 2021     3 years ago

Submitted Poems 7 total

About the Sky

I once read a koan that said something about seeing the world through the eyes of painters.
While I didn’t write it down and forgot who the bodhisattva who wrote it was,
the lesson stuck with...

– by Ted J Mallory

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I'm So Sorry

I’m so sorry
You’re dealing with so much
I feel afraid to offer any commentary
because I don’t want to risk
offending you
or say anything
that will compound your pain

I want to say things
to heal
or...

– by Ted J Mallory

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There are worse problems

I have a brand new pen
& a crisp, blank sheet of paper
but no picture comes to my imagination

My fingers are poised
over the keyboard
but I have no story to...

– by Ted J Mallory

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Posession

I promise that tomorrow I will rejoin society
tomorrow I will teach
and enter grades
and discuss pedagogy, lessons and...

– by Ted J Mallory

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A Poem on Christmas Day

Christmas Day the sky is white with fog
Christmas Eve layered snow
upon every hill and slope

and every bough
of every tree
tangled branches

of each bare ash and elm
and on every limb
on every juniper and fir and...

– by Ted J Mallory

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