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Reborn Wonder

2024 Daily Poetry

12312024

213

freshen up, get ready, set
it ends as quickly as it began
wait, rewind, oh
we can't? What about
that, what about this, what
about him and her, what
about, what about, what
about them. Who? You know
those that choose
those that decide, they
did all the things, all the
things I talked about
all the things I like
why don't I? Oh
I better freshen up, get ready
bye

Joshua James

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12302024

212

Every single cell knows
It's done
Already done, gone
The darkness is calling
I’m pushing through
Make what you will
Do it all
All that you can
We'll see it through

Joshua James

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12292024

211

Friends and energy
Let the money go around
Let it circle easily
It comes it goes, hear the sound
We already know, lost when we’re found
Feel the sound within hit the ground
Let the vibrations rinse and rise through and in
Let the beat harmonize you
Working its way under your skin
Syncing into the rhythm of life
Let your real eye see too
I know we already win
It’s done
We ride away into the horizon light
We won
Free forever here and now
I live

Joshua James

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12282024

210

still dreaming of that meaning
I’m off on the run
pushing and searching
craving for that feeling
I find myself in everyone

tearing through myself
un-layering the truth in
what I want
I know that it’s so close
right inside my heart

Joshua James

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12272024

209

I try to fight the feeling
cause we all bleeding
Everybody's going through something
I try to find the feeling
cause we all need it

Joshua James

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12262024

208

principles
laid out
again and again
what have I even been doing
alternate universes
alternate versions
what have I been missing
80 - 20
activating
inside out
power me up

Joshua James

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12252024

207 - Living life

why do I tell myself I'm not good enough
And run away and push away from everything I want
If I just knew what I want maybe I'd get it all
maybe if I let go, I would be everything that I want
maybes too many maybes will make ya fall
I already got it If I give it my all

Joshua James

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12242024

206

I feel great
pure consciousness
I am
I float to new levels of
money and wealth
to experience all that I can
it's the breath
in a moment
and love from a friend
It's a feeling of success
where ever I am

Joshua James

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12232024

205 - Express It

congested
the feelings start to mess with
my mind
the anxiety building
inside
I need to express it
outside

Joshua James

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12222024

204 - Let Go, to Love

I have desire
I’m gaining ground
Flying higher
I’m working hard
Everyday
I feel the sound
Flowing lighter
How do you grow
Every way
I’m blessed, yet hang
Onto everything
Obsessed
I shouldn’t be sad
To let things go
Life is learning to
Live, love, and let go

Joshua James

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12212024

203 - Open

just keep working, working
where did I put those lines
over there somewhere
yea, there
you find them?
of a mountain
a waterfall
creating without
limitation
living
you find them?
of lines and sketches
answers to
the age all question
did you find them?
Those lines
that beautiful pome
did you find it?

Joshua James

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12202024

202 - Victory

I have ideas for notebooks, books, songs, and stories
I have the ambition and heart to sing glory
Yet, I hold myself back with fear and worry
I release it all! I'm here now! I will not be sorry
For not trying it all! I'm blessed with victory!

Joshua James

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12192024

201 - Focus

what am I even doing
spinning around like a fool
to focus
I want to focus
I'm in control of my emotions
I control my choices
I choose my thoughts
so why do I worry
I need to focus
on one thing I know
I feel the time move
within my soul
I read past thoughts
from another me
under another moon
who then who now
I've grown into a man
I still look back
at the kid then
I look inside at the
changes
I look inside for how

Joshua James

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12182024

200

on the verge of anxiety
hanging on the edge
I desire a fix to fix me
yet I know it probably won't
help
hanging on the edge
of anxiety
something inside of me
desires to speak
I seek it
I feel it crash as a wave over me
overwhelming me
but I can still breath

I need to keep moving
I need to keep the emotions in
check
I need to feel within to give my
all to them
I can still breath
hanging on the edge
of anxiety
I can still speak

Joshua James

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12172024

199 - Retrieval

To the one that lurks in the shadows.
The one that howl's in the night.
The beast in fight, inside
The animal, the truth, the vision.

Joshua James

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12162024

198 - Dripping thoughts

Always my fault
My choice how I react
No matter what is on the outside

The universe gives me
Don’t give me away

My mind putting me in the dark
I can still taste your heart
My days spent in art

To find it I work to earn
To live am I alive
I try to give and survive

Alive in this moment I want to be alive in this moment

Joshua James

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12152024

197 - Light Maze

here I am again
over and over
again
and so
I go
to live in the
world
a maze
to wander
to forget
myself for a
minute
lights dazzling
great feeling
abundance

Joshua James

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12142024

196 - Sauna PR

a dusk swept room midday
the ambience settling
not too crowded but full
each with their own goals
to sweat out
to release
to realize
the time ticks fast and slow
the day takes forever and the
years just go
the low flicker and drops
let you behold
the moment
a sweet
sweaty moment

Joshua James

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12132024

195

procrastination
my enemy, my friend
the great logic
the convincer
midnight on a Friday
alone
can’t really say
I was productive though
simply silly
the weeks go

Joshua James

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12122024

194

so many thoughts
I want to make something
that takes your breath away

he looked out at the world before him
in awe
the great expanse

nostalgia
insignificance
potential

at the heart center
his breath caught
such a sight

Joshua James

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12112024

193

physical, digital
The wind-down
another day
brightness down
night mode
before I lay down
I have one more thing
before I relax
stories stacked on layers
layers on layers
time tested and timed prayers
remnants in layers
layers on layers
I have one more thing
one more
I know I will find it
on the edge is where
I rest
dreaming
I found it
finding myself in places
I never knew I would
another few years gone
layers on layers
beneath, here, above
as the earth, as the wood
stacked at the beat
of the earth drum
banging my head alone
stuck in my head
layers in the zone
you can bet
it's the intent
I will find
layers on layers
i dig
layers on layers
I build
all to live
to define
another few years gone
another few years
I'll lie with it
layers on layers
added

Joshua James

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12102024

192

Channeling power
I call into life
Word and images
Days into nights
Channeling the hour
I breathe light
Against a cool path
Wind breath
Channeling forever

Joshua James

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12092024

191

Pain and poetry, messages from centuries
prisoner in my heart
to forgive
understand people
would be the greatest I could be

Joshua James

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12082024

190

Working on the weekend
So many lives dealing with
Life
What are we looking for
Mass consciousness
Expanding the senselessness
Putting meaning behind nothing
Or find meaning in everything
We have to keep going right
We have to keep building
We have to keep growing
Or should I lay back for a moment
Let a calming sensation
Open my mind
Please give me an answer
I’m trying to understand
Wrong from right
A life from alive
The meaning in death
What we leave behind
Is that what is
Important?
is that what is
Right?

Joshua James

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12072024

189

On the spot
I need to sleep
Don’t give up
In what you believe
Soon it will come
As it has always
For everyone
One day I will see

Joshua James

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12062024

188

Urges
Should I hold them in
Impulse
Should I dream big
Tempting
As they ask
Should I give in
Discipline
Decided
Dangerous
I have a way
To go
It was all so fast though
What do you want?
These moments
like days
Quicker than I care to acknowledge
I pray for more because I’m
Addicted
Imore
More life
more love
more

Joshua James

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12052024

187

Slipping away
A poem a day
I can’t be Afraid
If I’m gonna be
That one thing
If I’m gonna find
That one thing
If I’m gonna bring
That one thing
I need
I’m feeling now
I’m freeing myself
I’m stretching out
I need to find the path
I seek

Spending so many years
Doing something so so
Half in half out the door
Open the window
Cause it’s hot in here
I’m stretching out
I need to follow the path
I laid out for myself I knew
The test but fooled myself
Got started early and fell off
Felt like I wasn’t enough
Let the opinions of everyone
Tear me down
I lift me up
I lift me up

Joshua James

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12042024

186

Oh how it flows
Moment to moment
I can get caught on one thought
When the thought is separate
Oh how it goes
So quickly so sweetly so golden
Sometimes the thought will cause
Action
Or ensue reaction
on reaction
A chemical wonder
Of chance or cause
A studious ponder
Of peace and love
Reaction on reaction

Joshua James

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12032024

185

I got
Beautiful songs
In my mind
That need to be freed
There’s only one reason
They were sent to me
This ache this fear
God knew it wouldn’t break me
God knew I would ask to save me

Joshua James

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12022024

184

Just do it you have to
By the power of will
Let it happen
Make it happen
See it in your mind
Create it in life
Two realities
Two sides
Both heads
On the flip side

Joshua James

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12012024

183

Thank you for guiding me
Over and over through the variety
Of life
Choices and strides
I’m blessed and forever in search
Of life
Dreams
Thank you for guiding me.

Joshua James

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11302024

182

Halfway asleep
The words come to me
Dreams enter and leave

Affirmations to push you on
Words to a-firm power
Inside outside
Every moment
This moment
I’m grateful forever

Joshua James

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11292024

181

Here I am
In a mix of life.
In a mix of thoughts.
I try to let go.
I try to work through
The questions of my heart
With a pen

Joshua James

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11282024

180

So many words around in my head
Stories retold with different names
I read and write and look for a way
To say everything through one verse
To Put all the feeling of life and the dead
Into one blessing and everlasting curse
To carry forward forever my gift
Of humanity’s spirit inspiration and sin
All for those who call for it
All for those who those who bled

Joshua James

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11272024

179

Red lights and sunsets
Good beats and deep bass
Low tones
I’ve been scared to live
Let go
Scared to give
Let go and get
I know the universe has me
Always watching my back
Red lights and sunsets

Joshua James

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11262024

178

Dreams of religion
A need
To find meaning in everything
I do
Where to place line breaks
What to do
What to choose
We are blessed with choice
That brings us
Heaven
Or hell

Joshua James

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11252024

177

I don’t want to half ass it
But I have to ask it
What the hell are you doin’
If you’re not doing as much as you can

There is so much more I’m looking for
There is so much more I need
There is so much more I’m looking for
There is so much more I need

What will it take for me to see
What will it take for me to be
Me

Joshua James

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11242024

176

They live paycheck to paycheck
How the hell do I help
If I live paycheck to paycheck
At a different level praying to a different level
For guidance on how to be me wholly and only
To vibrate on the purest frequency
Helping all that chose me
As I choose them
I know I can give back
I know I can help
I’m here to live well

Joshua James

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11232024

175

A stick
Twisted reaching
Searching
Snapped finger
Debri
Sick Dead and Broken
Twisting still
After the end
Desire

Joshua James

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11222024

174

Free verse maybe I cheat
I just look for ways to say things indirectly
Mostly to find something myself
Hoping that it could help
Someone else who looks on discreetly

Joshua James

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11212024

173

Memories so sweet
Feeling something so real so new
Day dreams I seek
I’m trying to feel something so you
you speak you take me
through all the memories so cool
Melodies complete
A moment forever with you

Joshua James

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11202024

172

Same thing different day right
Even with everything
You follow the same line
As yesterday
I’m trying to define what’s right
What’s wrong, black, or white
Still trying to decide
What’s been keeping me up at night
What’s been keeping me in bed after rise

Joshua James

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11192024

171

It bubbles and lingers
Trembles my fingers
From inside it wants to speak
I try to direct it but it’s hard to
Complete to compete
It beckons me
Calls to me
Begs me
To set it free
Escape from me
I, a vessel of potentiality
Trapping me, directing me
Tapping into the empty
To create
Everything

Joshua James

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11182024

170

I got my dailies to do baby
I know you want me to stay
How much longer are you up babe?
I’m probably going to hit the hay
You could come up
This may be another one of those things
I could never forget
Give me your love and tell me
To come in
I’ll give you a hug and help
You let loose
I know you’re working hard
It’s all in the way of the world
Just another man’s lullaby
Lonely, lovely, scared, confident sometimes
All for the love in their world
Just a child in growth
A distant soul
Emanating golden hope
As we work to every goal

Joshua James

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11172024

169

Positive vibes
I loop around and around
In on myself
Positive vibes
Searching and searching
For the fun of looking
With not much to find
Positive vibes
I set the heading and learn
Moving forward forewarned
As the best man should
Positive vibes

Joshua James

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11162024

168

I feel the need to create
I stare at a blank page
Overwhelmed with insight
Gifts from space
So much to create
So much to give
I wait and anticipate
Blood pumping coursing through
I feel I need to move
My body aches from use
I pace and contemplate
What to do
To sit and focus, a quiet triumph
Many may not tune to

Joshua James

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11152024

167

Push pull press let it go
Move, win, lose, learn, grow,
Fill up a cup, water and wine
Much to discover in the divine
Another day over, blessed to find
Another night of rest all mine

Joshua James

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11142024

166

Oh the fun of the humdrum like
Running at the crack of an old race gun
Bumping elbow to elbow to get a lead
I pace back and forth forward and back
Over and under and back again
To place the same thing from this place to that
Spot to this place again, over thinking
Just what do I need just what do I need
Oh the fun of the old humdrum
Beat of my heart pump thump da thump
A thought on the back drop
A glare off the old green screen
Thump thump da thump da thump
What does all this mean

Joshua James

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11132024

165

Transcendence
Empty whiteness
Endless
A sea so bright
Speed
Give me peace

Joshua James

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11122024

164

Old memories
We laugh and kid
Cartoons and vids
Long days and short trips
Back pain and quick tips
Family ties I love
I wish
Could last forever
Forever it will last within

Joshua James

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