RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Thursday, August 31, 2017

MEMORY

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Dreary gray- scale afternoon dreaming— walking the city park's grubby perimeter, wondering of just what sort of squalid desecrati...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

AMERICAN SUPERHERO

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When I was younger, I always would look up and imagine—what it would feel like—to swoop brawny and broad winged and darkly confide...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

POST MODERN DANCE SCENARIO

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Stride for stride, you and I just go walking sometimes— past paper mache trees and shoebox buildings, often silent for indefin...
Monday, August 28, 2017

LUKEWARM

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It's true, I suppose; the best things in life—are free. Free, as in: cheap. Almost totally worthless. And, as in: running at light...
Friday, August 25, 2017

DEATH WISH

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Some thirty five feet above this old sun- blinded street— a lean gray squirrel bounding across an electrical wire, and me—down here ...

BREAKTHROUGH

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The poem I deleted before I wrote this one was like the furtive intricate folds of a rose petal— complex in its frailty and perfumed ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

MESSAGE NOT SENT

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Common grackles, with most of their intelligent crests of iridescent blue consumed by stolid black, and the starlings, gold flecked bu...
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Dan Smart is a writer, musician, and animal caretaker from Chicago, IL. His poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Ocotillo Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Jabberwock Review, Little Stone Journal, Red Fez, and The Legendary, among others; and his first full-length collection "The Flowers of Nonchalance" was released in 2023. In addition, he has sustained the daily poetry blog "Rhythm Is The Instrument" since 2013, which presently contains nearly 4,000 original poems.
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