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 the past bringing pain to my [...]

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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,
His son had lived a scarce [...]

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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 soul of her, her life and [...]

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