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Poets
lie to tell the truth
Pounding
notes of love, sweet flavor of peace
putrid
odor of pain, soft skin of youth
blind
numbness waning..
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I
saw starving people in a forest green
where
a raven ate a dead snake
there
a vegan slaughtered a bean
soaring
eagles into slaves he d..
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A tribute to Jacob Collier
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We
cut roses
Beauty
must die
As
petals dry
in
a glass grave she reposes
Once
living, man made
Gloves
its leather
hat
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When
there is nothing to say and nothing to feel
to
the center of the compass fall directions
Winds
swirl into calm waves against the keel..
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Drips
of pain fall in a well,
dark,
midnight fathomless hole
Waters
of emotion build and swell,
deluge
beyond heart's control
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Became
a vulture when you wanted an eagle
Had
hunger for carrion not fresh meat
Turned
thief not regal
Rotten
tasted so sweet
..
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Toothless,
bald, wrinkled skin
uncouth,
unacceptable, decommissioned
sagging
gut, a double chin,
a
relic reconditioned
Eyes..
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A
ghost imprisoned in my chest
chained
to walls of memories
Guilt's
shackle's disturb my rest
garroted
haunting reveries
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Blind
breath drawn
poems
of smoke swirling in air
here
then gone
puffs
of love and despair
Winds
turned
Haze
drifts in br..
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