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“Don’t wander too far,”
I heard my mother call.
But, my lungs were bellows,
My heart a red-hot furnace,
And the quickeni..
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Cups, like lovers, you’ll have a few,
And they alone may hold your hand
And touch your lips at the same time.
We live in crucible citi..
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Like the Peppered Moth that
Due to the pollution of the time
Turned darker and darker till
It was black and thus survived,
Here and now w..
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Slippered feet shuffle
from wall to wall
Resting on weathered
milestones
Left like breadcrumbs
around the house
A photograph, a book, abr..
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Tattered flags flap over
Shifting sand dunes
Once in a century
Rain falls over the desert
The ground turns
Red with the blood of
Y..
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Partly inspired by the film of the same title.
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"I have
always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
The intellect is
a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the s..
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Let the mourners mourn
Let the weepers weep, for
It’s the soul’s elemental need
That she muses and
ruminates
Gazing in the bl..
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On a boulder, as rugged and ancient
As life itself, she sits motionless.
Impassive like a statue, she waits for
A new day and the weak warmth..
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Cherry trees in full bloom
Should be a joyful sight
But their beauty brings no joy
To a world where your hands
Rest no more in mine
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