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Best Poems Written by Terry Angelo

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Rocky Point

We laughed out loud
and kept walking along the beach
My cousins and I
stopping every few feet
to pick up shells 
and hold them to our ears
wondering which would be louder
the world inside or 
the one outside

Paul would scare us with horseshoe crabs
and Joan and I would screech
weak and feminine
gladly bowing to his fearless boyishness
before jumping into the waves
hoping we had forever
until our mothers would call us to dinner
and we had to grow up 
just a little more

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Viet Nam

The child has grown to woman
Scorching burns
turned to hideous scars
She looks into the
mists of the bamboo forest
and still sees
phantoms
running into the village
at dawn
killing families
setting houses on fire
still sees herself
running from the
pain and horror
into the nothingness
of being alone

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Would You...

If I died, would you die with me?
our ashes mingling into forever
or would you shed just one tear
as you remembered my sharp wit
at the next cocktail party
and how it would have
made you shine
until eventually even that 
would be a vague memory
like a face glimpsed quickly
through a veil of white gauze
and then forgotten 
in a fog of time

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The Weight of Illusion

Shoulders heavy
with the weight
of Buddha’s illusion,
Atlas staggers
to his grave

Silently he screams
of his elegant despair
and pictures his howls
traveling across the
emptiness
of his small space
until they reach the end
and come hurtling back
adding to the weight
of his burden
and making it heavy enough
so he can fall into the abyss
which he has so carefully dug

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The Importance of Tea Parties

you tell me about
the ghosts
you talk to at night
how they keep you company
in the eye of the hurricane
you call your life

you serve them tea
and ask if they would
prefer milk or lemon
one lump or two
laughing at all the appropriate
places in your eerie conversation
as the maelstrom of madness
swirls around you

so ethereal…
you escort your guests
to the door
asking if they had a good time
you tell me about
the importance of tea parties
and how you would go crazy
if you couldn’t have one
every night

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She Stares

She stares at the lifeless form
in her arms
its limbs splayed
like an offering to the hot sun
small eyes covered
with a veil of flies
skin stretched taut

Tiny skeleton

She stares at her useless breasts
and wants to cut them off
she screams
what good are they?
did they feed my daughter?
where was the milk?

Empty sacs

She stares at the harsh land
no grass or crops
no clouds in the sky
soldiers chase the people
burn their shacks
steal their food

Scorching hatred

She stares at the place
where she must bury the child
hoping the animals
won’t find her 
that is the way of this world
hunger-drought-soldiers-hate
and always death
til the cycle begins again
and the next child is born

Eternal Life