Tag: Poetry
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Freedom
Freedom Fight for freedom – you sayWhat freedom – I sayPolitical, social, religiousIntellectual, sexual – you say Or freedom fromLaw – civil, physical, spiritualFrom intellect, emotion, sensationDeath – say you There is no freedom – say IOnly exchange ofOne tyranny for another Political – tax collectors and tyrantsSocial – cliques and classesReligeious – saviors and…
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Winter Haiku
More Winter Haiku Sparrows swarm in trees;dim light, cold windy morning —a lone bluejay calls. Cold windy shoreline —Blue heron stands on one leg,head hunched in shoulders. Sliding down the road,antilock brakes’s staccato —black ice beckoning. Slaming the car door,snow-dust covers my face —Jack Frost mocking me! –LE
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Life Like Winter Snow
Life Like Winter Snow Life like winter snowIt comes and goesStays its day or twoThen gone, it disappearsIt changes form – evaporatesTurns to vaporRises to the skyAnd waits its turnTo fall againAnd who can sayThe form it takesWhen it returnsRain or snow or sleet or hailSo life’s vaporComes and goesLike spring showersOr summer rainsAutum stormsOr…
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Return Of The Snow
This is another one I wrote several years ago, but seems appropriate in the season for reasons untold…; -) Return of the Snow snow is comingin flurries and squallsin storms and gently fallingclouds of snow-dust swirls, where each flake, an ice crystal,glimmers in moonshine,and under street lights,headlights, and lighted windows, casting long shadows,creates snowscapes —…
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We Don’t Need Another Hero
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)by Tina Turner Out of the ruinsOut from the wreckageCan’t make the same mistake this timeWe are the childrenThe last generationWe are the ones they left behind And I wonder when we are ever gonna changeLiving under the fear ’til nothing else remains We don’t need another heroWe don’t need…
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Collective Consciousness
Collective Consciousness according to early psychologistswe are all attached in auniversal unconsciousness but what if it’s not unconsciousbut perspectives of the sameconsciousness pervading all the entire universe a universe of layers and perspectivesfrom so-called ‘matter’consciousness limited and basic to so-called sentientswith more complicated perspectivesmore self-aware perspectives of the conscious universemorality but a means of controlone…
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Two – Dimensional Me
Two – Dimensional Me the lamp cast meon the wallin two dimensionsa perfect silhouette as I turned tolook at meI turned and gazedback at myself I wondered whatmy other self seesimitating my every moveperfectly though sometimesin distorted perspectivesdependant on light sourceand surface juxtapositions my 3-d self a divinityto 2-d me?moral and just ordark and evil?…
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Cool December Morning
Cool December Morning cool and clearmorning in Decemberpristine skyreflects the deepblue sea as luminousBrittlebush blossomsseem to float onthe desert’s parched andcaliche-strewn lees no wild animalsout todaynone want to be‘the preyof the day’ and neither do I –LE – 12/7/25
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Morpheus and His Sisters, Fate and Death
Morpheus and His Sisters, Fate and Death in my youthMorpheus wasmy companion and friendjustice, my main complaintthat is, whatever didn’tgo my way later, Fate and Deathbecame playerssitting opposite meat life’s game-boardchallenging, complicatingmy every move now, Fate and Deathhave become beautiful sirensgently smiling facesbeckon me to lie downin their sweetlanguid embraces I’m old enough nowlived more…
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Dream Within A Dream
Dream Within A Dream Hubris aboundsWe understand the universeThe gibberish of clownsGlaring through theirTopsy-tervy frowns Life slaps my unsuspecting faceAs each and every morningIts complexity is unfolding Perceptions ephemeralAs each day makes it plainConceit of understandingIs fundamentally insane Have to question what’s real Is anything, or All just a dreamWithin a dreamWithin a dream The…
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