Category: freedom
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Freedom
What city landscape architect had money left over in their budget To throw away on a fence for only one side of a pond; Any child or old man can walk around? On the water side of the fence, a Fall flurry of flowers grows white and wild. On my side of the wire, two…
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Autumn beauty
I admire your curves The smooth texture of your skin It is not necessary to hold you You are doing fine without me Possession would be A death sentence I admire your curves The smooth texture of your skin And walk on 9-22-21
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60 years on
Sixty years on I wonder what white Cubans And black Cubans think of Batista What stories grandfathers and grandmothers Washed and served with salad greens At dinner tables in Cuba and America What did parents teach their children And what do children know of truth? Sixty years on I wonder what white Cubans And black…
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window rattling
fighter jets race low crack sky shake house gone before sound freedom is not quiet 5-2-21
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haiku while sweeping pollen from the porch
on a screened porch silllooking out, a dead wasp lieslonging for freedom 4-10-21
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a wall
a wall never kept a hungry animal or a fleeing deer on the other side they always find a way to go around or over or burrow underground 4-4-21
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We the people
Whether You Me Us Like It Or Not A Victory Is Not A Mandate And You Me Us Must Move Forward Together 11-6-20
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Poem before dying
Lorca wrote of roosters, of eating cemetery grass, of weeping little boys, of snow, of guitars, of murder, of women dropping off to sleep, of a resurrection that will never come, and he makes me weep. I write of barking dogs and feral cats, of trash on asphalt courts, of weeping little boys, of warm…
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Questions for a podophiliac
Tell me, what’s so cool about glass slippers you only wear at royal balls? Calves are sexier in high heels and the butt angle is more inviting. When I think of slippers I think of fuzzy comfort to keep your feet warm not something that may shatter, if a Prince Charming steps on your foot.…
My husband's poetry 