Brian’sPoems

The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Search and read all 1,834 pieces by Brian J. Mueller — 1,675 poems, 38 prose pieces, and 121 haiku from 12 published volumes. Free to read and share.

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...to your soul.

This is how you’ll know
where to make room for change,
what you need to start drinking
to refresh your dry palate.

How easily you forget
what it means to be young,
what it means to be alive,
not existing and persisting
in defiance of time.

Your soul is seeking a revelation
and has been longing to grow
since your first sip of milk,
your first gulp of air.

Listen to all the sounds
now ringing in your ears!

What is there to do
if you refuse to wake up,
to show up and grow up,
to answer your life calling you
into communion with everything?

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