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No Weddings and a Funeral
Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life, for it cannot exist without life. We continually die as time moves forward, with pieces of us sloughing off in favor of growth. I think life isn’t lived in fear of death, but rather walking along with death in a somewhat gracious…
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Salt
a short story A woman deals with the grief of loss while living with her sister on the shoreline. Saltby Jeremy C Kester Sea spray soaked the air in salt. She stood on the shoreline, her hair a blend of white and the dark of dampness. Thickened strands blew this way and that, obeying the…
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Living Sin
a poem I am still aliveStill movingStill wanting of lifeThough I feel like death waitsImpatient and resoluteBut we know my timeIt isn’t nowSimply some time in the futureSeconds, minutes, years, decadesSome timeNot nowYet I act deadIgnoring lifeMy crime of beingMy truest sinNot acting for me Photo and words copyright © 2026 by Jeremy C Kester…
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Sisyphus
a poem I need remindersHow far perfection isAn opposite of realityGoals unattainableAimed towardsWith arrow missedForever falling shortIt matters not if I hitOnly that the effort remainsTo draw and looseEach attempt againToiling away until deathLike one who carries the boulderNever achieving the summitIf I cannot accept thisIf I refuse to aim and toilFailure and death will…
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The Strangeness of Regret
Regret lives in the spaces of the choices we wish we made. Sometimes it is the understanding, a lesson learned too late, of the consequence of a path taken.
Jeremy C Kester
converting caffeine into words
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