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Frederick Kesner
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Until the Cosmos Speaks
"until the cosmos speaks"
A shimmering constellation behind the Eyes
throbs in the temples, a slow and heavy rhythm
—not an ailment, but a cosmos waking up.
Headache: that’s what they call
the pressure of existence,
that insistent sense of language
pushing through the skull.
It is the poetic inevitability of the word,
a solar system burning in grey matter,
each pulse an asteroid, a path
for letters that have nowhere else to go.
Star‑patterns of pure pressure tighten,
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a milky way of unspoken lines behind the eye.
The brain is too small for the infinity of being,
so the universe cracks open in glorious pain.
You seek the dark,
the quiet, the empty,
but inside, the constellation
keeps shining: existence insisting,
star after star, until the cosmos speaks
and silence breaks.
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Frederick Kesner’s timeline
- July 2026
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on voices we allow/disallow from @Geezer
"but I wondered what the A.I. was talking about and then it occurred to me that the thread was needed to mend the seam. ~ Geez." -
18 SatReceived a critique
on mirrored glass from @Geezer
"was the pivot of understanding for me. Truth be told, I had to read what you and the others had said, before it clicked. ~ Geez." -
18 SatReceived a critique
on voices we allow/disallow from @Geezer
"what the A.I. sees here; that the gentle-spun tone is never developed into a thread to sew/mend the seam; it was just vaguely alluded to. ~ Geez." -
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- May 2026
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31 Sun
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15 FriHighest posting month
May 2026 — 26 poems
- April 2026
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- July 2025
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- August 2022
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15 MonAnniversary
15 years of membership
- August 2017
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15 TueAnniversary
10 years of membership
- August 2012
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15 WedAnniversary
5 years of membership
- March 2011
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06 SunPosting milestone
100 poems posted
- November 2010
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23 Tue
- August 2008
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15 FriAnniversary
One year of membership
- January 2008
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26 SatFirst critique offered
on "Revolving Echoes" by @purplemoondoll
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23 WedFirst publication
From Swords to Plowshares
- August 2007
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15 WedJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 160 days later.
Bookshelf
| Book | Where to find it | Files | Added |
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| Wind Chimes Frederick Kesner (crypticbard) (2009) Experimenting with sound recordings with the help of friends. I am finding that this adds an extra dimension to creating new writing - verse spoken aloud makes a… | View → | — | Mar 22, 2009 |
| Castles in the Wind Frederick Kesner (1998) Wattle Grove Books | View → | — | Jan 26, 2008 |
| Eye Soar Frederick Kesner (2007) Wattle Grove Books http://www.lulu.com/content/328767 | View → | — | Jan 26, 2008 |
| Waking Up to Self Frederick Kesner (2006) Wattle Grove Books http://www.lulu.com/content/278695 | View → | — | Jan 26, 2008 |
| Poetical Works of Frederick Kesner Frederick Kesner (2000) http://www.poemsabout.com/poet/frederick-kesner | View → | — | Jan 26, 2008 |
About Me
About me
…a writer who started on the quiet side of things.
Early on, speaking felt harder than shaping a line, so the page became the place where thoughts could land cleanly. That history still lingers, but it doesn’t define the work.
What I write now comes from paying attention to the small moments that pass too quickly unless someone pauses. If you read along, thank you for meeting the work with patience and curiosity.
Location: West Moreton, AUS
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Contest Wins
| Winning Submission | Contest | Contest Date |
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| a small dismissal | 05/26 My First Time | – |
| bemusedly ruminating | 04/26 April Fooled | – |
| morning psalm | 07/25 Renovated Quill | – |