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Replacement

REPLACEMENT I champion a different philosophy of life On a scale line of dramatic and emotional Thought Ranging from hate to love – Weight dishes filled balanced evenly – Replacement overpowers the right extreme The love dish clatters noisily on the table Hate is left hanging high and dry Replaced by love Whose presence is monumentally ponderous The ideology remarkably simple – Any thought residing in the suspended hate dish Is blessedly replaced by love. Dave Austin

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Kelly Deschler

Date: 9/8/2016 7:11:00 PM

Such powerful imagery in this poem, which only helps the reader to see how much value that love really holds... Beautifully penned, Daver!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 8/23/2016 3:48:00 PM

this is a very cool way to symbolize love and hate. A clever and enjoyable poem, my friend.

Joe Maverick

Date: 8/17/2016 1:05:00 PM

Hello Daver, I was just thinking of your page only to find nobody visits... Well I am not much on the 'nobody guy' I mean for 1 thing how would I recognise him?? so I think its all relative, I really get the love angle here old friend, I realise at times I am committed to that same ethos, I get a lot of knocks because of it, but who am I to complain?

Daver Austin
Date: 8/18/2016 11:48:00 AM

Thanks, Joe. Another non-conformist.

Michelle Mac Donald

Date: 8/13/2016 2:56:00 PM

Beautiful write, Dave. Love, so simple and as weightless as an iridescent bubble. Having no thought nor desire to own, control, or manipulate, love can empty or replace the 'hate dish'. Best wishes, hugs, Mikki :)

Daver Austin
Date: 8/14/2016 11:05:00 AM

Thanks for the visit. Nobody reads my stuff, except you and Andrea. I simply don't write what others want to read. Well, I'm too much of an individualist to change. Hug a boos daver