David Joseph

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Poet | Technologist | Storyteller

Through my eyes, the world becomes a quiet dialogue between thought and feeling.
Sacred Songs of a Nomad Soul is my attempt to capture that conversation in poetry.

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My poetry blog of around 17 years is https://davidjosephwriteshere.wordpress.com/

She is the eternity between drums of my heartbeat. A poem about love, loss, and becoming the emptiness left behind.
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Come sit with the saint for a while. See the cross they built, the vials they filled. Watch his hand, in the last quiet, draw a cartoon.
Turning a page tonight.
Grateful for the pain that shaped me, hopeful for the light that waits ahead.
Here’s to healing, home, and finding the voice meant for tomorrow. βœ¨πŸ“–
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Here is a poem I wrote to explore the topic of healing. I live in Cochin and the idea for the imagery came to me as I was crossing the shipyard and the port. Everything I had written so far was around the pain and torments. This time I felt I need to explore healing.

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The Way Fireflies
Remember

First love is a door
we never fully close -
not for longing,
but for the boy he was

Just beyond the porch light,
fireflies drift like slow confessions
Their glow -
a hush between the
pounding heartbeats

Before you helped me make a wish,
before you loved me again,
before you said you always have,
before the vow was forced,
some silences
still glow at dusk,
the way fireflies remember
where we stood -

their brief light
enough to find each other once,
and lose each other slow

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My experiment with a Reverso form. I find that in mystical poetry and sacred poetry, forms sometimes extend the mediation effort. It makes you dwell longer on that core thought : slow cooking the poem in the mind. With reverso, you have to choose words even more carefully to achieve coherence.

Reverso form, imho helps you explore an answer to a spiritual question in the reversed form. I will try to ascertain this more as I write here.

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This is my original poem, "An Unveiled Title." Beyond the existential themes, the structure itself holds a secret.

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From my meditation on Psalms 42:7

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