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Fireflies
glowing green
beneath
a blizzard of stars
smell
the night jasmine
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I'm
an old man, the poor, a small child
an
addict, governor, a prisoner chained
the
unemployed, a refugee exiled
a
soldier, coward, th..
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I
have sewn a golden field of illusions
in
the fertile black soil of ignorance.
Under
a warm sun of desire,
watered
by rains of false p..
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Some
things are more important than the body
But
what is more important than the soul?
A
question even for moralists, tangled and knotty
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A
poem like an embryo begins in the mind,
more
than often conceived in the blind.
Created
and born of a kind.
Its
nature set and define..
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A
caterpillar
spins
a chrysalis to be
a
new butterfly
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From
time to time, I take a walk back through the years.
I
amble through shadows of an old growth forest,
down
once familiar pathways whe..
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A
blossom forms
fruit
it grows
swells
and sweetens
softens
and mellows
until
it falls
spreads
its seeds
out
of rot
new
..
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I
watch you breathing in the night
I
know that tomorrow I will not be here
Now
it's time to turn out the light
I'll
miss the warm..
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You
see how
did
our cow
low
and bow
Ask
the rat
and
the cat
how
she sat
Can
you see
it's
the..
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