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A Lost Kind Returns

Krummes Holz gibt auch gerades Feuer    
Crooked logs make straight fires [Work with what you have.]
 
Downcast eyes scan; the larger fear’s in deeds.
Germany thrives on the allied dollar 
having culled the herd; they bank euro collared.
I, remnant of the tribe of David, take heed. 
 
Full, again, of pride, the German strides
bold as brass across the pristine Alpine
scene, offering migrant shelter in line
with its own future needs as need coincides.
 
Who will be the tinder, the next confined
and the fly to the spider’s gruesome tale.
Prominence ignites dominance, the grail
 
binds with the golden eagle enshrined; it blinds,
yet, how few the choices, the wretched wail;
the tempted homeless yearn within the gale.


Published by Page & Spine 2016
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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Evans Avatar
February 17, 2018 at 3:07 PM
So much in so few words are the line "tempted homeless yearn within the gale."
De Beaulieu Avatar
April 29, 2017 at 2:55 PM
Debbie Well done A 7
Guzzi Avatar
April 29, 2017 at 3:33 PM
Thanks Darlene!
Sullivan Avatar
April 24, 2017 at 12:40 PM
EXCELLENT!!!
Guzzi Avatar
April 24, 2017 at 3:24 PM
Thank you Amy!!
Yvonne Avatar
April 21, 2017 at 9:31 PM
Oh yeah also, WOW!
Guzzi Avatar
April 24, 2017 at 3:25 PM
Maurice how wonderful to hear from you! HOW ARE YOU?
Yvonne Avatar
April 21, 2017 at 9:30 PM
Debbie this is so far beyond the best of poetry I am speechless. Brilliant. Writing at its best. A Huge fav. Lots Of Love, always, armand.
Vinson Avatar
April 21, 2017 at 1:07 PM
Excellent, Debbie, full of the history of humanity. Questions of how much are we our brother's and sister's keepers, or should we be their masters? I'm reminded, also, of the fundamentalism that arises from defeat - the Christian type in the American south after the Civil War, radical Islam in several beaten-down areas of the world, lacking in hope, Naziism in post World War I Germany....
Guzzi Avatar
April 24, 2017 at 3:25 PM
Thanks Doug!
Lindley Avatar
April 20, 2017 at 10:30 AM
My friend, congrats on this deep and fine sonnet being published!! Always in awe of the depth, scope and majestic language you use in your poetry.. Thanks for you consistent, generous and great support of this old , tired and very forgetful poet.. A FAV....
Guzzi Avatar
April 11, 2017 at 3:14 PM
Thank you taai, I think we are afraid of the homeless because WE are afraid of being in their shoes. Light & Love
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