Category: Poetry
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Watch Needs Winding
Watch Needs Winding need to water plantson this chilly fall dayneed socks and shoeskeep the chill away the pocket watch in my watchpacket needs winding — too analogsome would say getting ready tore-enter the fray, but first my watch needs winding –LE – 10/19/24
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Old People’s Wisdom
Old People’s Wisdom They say old people are wiseBut to me, we’re merely humanArtifacts, renderings of conditioningAnd non-stop, round-the-clockVitriol and propaganda In most casesWhat they call “the wisdom of old age”Is but a cunning for survival thatIs genetically encoded in our speciesOur racial memories back to the beginning If there’s any ‘wisdom’ in old ageIt’s…
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Survival Of The Fittest – Most Deserving?
Survival of the Fittest? There’s not enough to go around,so we’ve been constantly told, and thus solda bill of goods that profits theself-proclaimed, privileged few. Who, living in obscene opulence, stolenfrom wage slaves and the poor, subsidizedby governments, their cronies in power,enabled by want-to-be entitled elitists of all stripes. Mandarins of the status quo dismiss…
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‘O Mare E Tu
‘O Mare E Tuby Dulce Pontes and Andrea Bocelli Sentir em nósSentir em nósUma razãoPara nao ficarmos sósE nesse abraço forteSentir o marNa nossa vozChorar como quem sonhaSempre navegarNas velas rubras deste amorAo longe a barca louca perde o norte Amore mioSi nun ce stess’o mare e tuNun ce stesse manch’ioAmore mioL’amore esiste quanno nujeStamme…
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Fish-mobile
Fish-mobile fish shaped colors floating glinting and sparklingshimmering and swimmingin the languid currents from a large ceiling fan thin wires anchor themin the invisible stream keeps them flowingin place and quite serene –LE – 10/3/24
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This Is The Life
This Is The Lifeby Amy MacDonald Oh the wind whistles downThe cold dark street tonightAnd the people they wereDancing to the music vibeAnd the boys chase the girlsWith the curls in their hairWhile the shy tormented youth sit way over thereAnd the songs they get louderEach one better than before And you’re singing the songsThinking…
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Treadmill Welcome
Treadmill Welcome welcome to the tred … millsoul draining sale of skillsor just body-breaking labor nine to five, the best hoursof any day in service tothe master’s plans, not yours scratching for food and shelterin this dystopian caste systemintent on keeping you in your place hurry, scurry, time is moneybut little for you and yourson…
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Dust In The Wind
Dust In The Windby Kansas I close my eyesOnly for a moment, and the moment’s goneAll my dreamsPass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the windAll they are is dust in the wind Same old songJust a drop of water in an endless seaAll we doCrumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see…
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Wasting Time
Wasting Time no such thingan aspersion leveledby those with theirown agendas how is time ‘wasted’if one lives in the nowmoving and motivatedby present needs-desires often accused for notresponding to primary conditioningestablishment economic andsocial agendas, not mine ‘wasting time’an illusion of theneuroticly obsessed lemmingsled to their own ‘deaths’, inexorably –LE – 9/13/24 ‘Conventional Time’ – only…
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Lookout Finch
Lookout Finch scanning bushesfor any cattail twitchesbefore dining at the feederbreakfast buffetrecently toppled byferal cat’s paws finches routed byhalf a dozen pigeonbig-boys, the size ofbarred rock chickens, whilestealthy paws send themskittering skyward to roofs and into the treesseeking a safe perch andcomforting anonymitywhile feral pools of cats’ pawsripple and flow, primordial oozein the hedgerow –LE…
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