Season

The wind whispering through the threadbare trees The blossoms all fallen, the leaves long gone No bird sound to fill the air, all now far to the south A boundless desolate landscape, barren and awash The bright days of yesterday, now dimmed and demure Stark and almost silent, hard edged and cool Faint echoes of [...]

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Oily Tears

I stand and watch as the mother cries, As she hears the sad news that her son has died, And he didn’t die from sick or ill, Nor in a wreck in the dark of night, He died doing what they told him was right. I watch the father try to hold back his tears, [...]

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Earth Mother

Life pulsing through her caressing hands Lands covered by a richness of harvest, fertile with bounty For a time measured deep as the oceans, just as infinite Complexity, as to the single grain, adrift in the sands undulating through desert wind Plan simple, harmony and intricacy abound Duty, her life’s meaning, exists to provide The [...]

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