Mind Sprocket

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Mind Sprocket gives voice to simple and honest perspectives. We publish thoughts and experiences on our world. We tell stories.

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Andrew Calis

Andrew Calis is an aspiring poet who is attending Mount Saint Mary's University in pursuit of a degree in English. He is fascinated by love, beauty, and sorrow, but spends the majority of his time in search of big, impressive words and intelligent company.

Articles by Andrew Calis:

You’re Heaven, Not Its Gold

Published in Verse on July 23, 2008

For Beauty ought with beauty live,
And Beauty is God’s home.
And to the pure the purest give
The purest place to roam.

The Pack

Published in Verse on July 23, 2008

I burn with the same carnal, carnivorous passions,
The polygamy of the untamed

You Are

Published in Verse on March 18, 2008

You are my love, my poetry,
My sounding heart and tongue;
My thoughts jumbled illit’rately
While your clear note rung.

Fireworks Love

Published in Verse on March 5, 2008

Love is a scale often tipped.
Love is real.
It is also, unfortunate
As it is,
Often mistaken or replaced
With acted,
Glass replicas.

Suicide is Beautiful

Published in Verse on March 5, 2008

A bomb hardly explodes, but glows.
And poison kills not, but grows.
Why else, when stricken, do blades sing?
And why at funerals do bells ring?

I have been turned to stone

Published in Verse on January 14, 2008

I have been turned to stone.
My movements are slow,
Thought is slow.
An inch goes unnoticed,
And I cannot scream out.