Category: peace
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Simple augury
Nesting bird high upon wall doesn’t care which side it gathers food to feed its young It needs to live and farmers’ snare or hunter’s gun won’t force it to choose and neither will your politics A pretty flag north or south it doesn’t matter much it only wants to feed its young and build…
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brainspotting
homeostasis is process not revelation listen deeply to the quiet inside your head somatic cues brush empty canvas the universe paints your innocence 1-25-21
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Because I did not watch the inauguration on tv
Dry leaves rattled in grass at my feet. Beyond the speed of sound planes from the airbase roared in the west. No matter, how long I searched western skies, I could not see sunlight glint on wings until I turned to face the east. Tattered flag on pole unfurled in wind; colors worn and faded,…
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Senescence 2021
Stop waiting for change; it will happen. Squash some bugs, pull weeds Water your garden; flowers grow into tomatoes 1-17-21
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Chill
“Some feel the rain. Others just get wet” Bob Marley (and several others) no umbrella no rain coat long way to house hurrying won’t keep you dry no sense in rushing luxuriate in sensations of chill winter rain you will be home soon enough take shoes off at door remove wet clothes feet on the…
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Tuesday haiku
do you remember running in clover, no cares I don’t, but I try 8-18-20
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Inside out
our closet is a mess clothes in need of darning worn out clothes without hangers clothes no longer fit the body I’ve started wearing clothes inside out looking for a silver lining searching in seams for a gleam 7-27-20
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a binary life
Sitting on the porch she opens the door says, “It’s too hot” You use pen and paper to flesh a poem a computer to bone it Your computer complains slows down and threatens to abandon you You are a peacemaker in a binary world and tear out the page and go inside 7-23-20
My husband's poetry 