Shallow in Their Eyes
Seated on the throne of deceit, what possible truth could one see, and in that pretense and delusion of control,
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Year: 2017
Fading Star – Hope
Fading Star… Surging the night sky, where certain want is welcomed. Drifting eyes rake the velvet waves, in tumult,
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Ten Years After – The Conclusion of the Class Reunion Dilemma
She smiled, flirtatiously stalling while mentally calculating Again and again, running through the lists of faces and names Yet the
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Just a Little Kindness
Kindness is always a surprise, a colored rise of heart, a soul imbued with hopeful gaze, and I a smile
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You Dark Pretenders, Be Gone
Those who can, do, and those who can’t, talk about it incessantly, and from my point of view their game
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In Mind’s Light, They Be Gone
In the night, the darkest pregnant night, where shadows cast from windows stretch like claws upon the walls and heart
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That Tree Upon the Knoll
A mild wind rustles leaves, their random turning as if to honor the sky above, and their melody like a
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Taking the Kids Fishing at Verdi Pond On An Autumn Day
I. Through four seasons we remember the fish we caught, the first to cast on Verdi Pond our line between
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Love for the Creature
They told her not to go, along the hillside, past the cemetery, simply because you never know, what lurks in
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Inner Beauty Seen Through Love
Inner Beauty Seen Through Love … When self loathing kept them in seclusion there was no room for love: Look
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Dreaming in Color
Daffodil walls of yellow light, striking eyes of bloodshot morning plight, to tear away the infamy of sallow white below,
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Crossing that Line of Change
The line before me is as slender as a spider’s web, stronger than a steel peg and divided the two
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Learning Control in the Quietness of Mind
We may want, strive and work toward, but to push our will and thoughts creates such disharmony and obstruction, we
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Freedom’s Knell
We free ourselves, we tether ourselves, and no blame or deflection can remedy the choices we make, for limits are
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Grumpy’s Bear
Grumpy’s Bear – I use to live near Grand Lake, Colorado which is about 9,000 feet in altitude and the
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Haunted Candy Bars – Silver Back Gorilla at the Haunted Zoo Conclusion
Haunted Candy Bars Please see Silver Back Gorilla at the Haunted Zoo for the first part of this story. In
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Silver Back Gorilla at the Haunted Zoo
Silver Back Gorilla Maxim, the silver back gorilla, knew his buddy Carl was coming home. Home, for Maxim, was the
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The Answers Are Out There
Did you know that subatomic particles have sentience, and can change their behavior just because we are looking at them;
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The Purpose We Share as Writers
We poets have a platform, one to express all manner of thought. Often it may just be imagery, expressions of
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Stop Politicizing Tragedy
#StopPoliticizingTragedy Each life is precious; every soul important Whether man, woman, or child Every life has meaning;
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Looking for Love to Return
Looking toward Autumn … Looking toward the autumn, I wondered where you were, you had promised to return, before the
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Kansas Summer Wind
Growing up is never easy, most of the time we fumble through childhood without any direction. Some of us are
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