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Transient Impermanent

...Transient Impermanent

cherry blossoms burst
a breeze scatters petals down
denuded branches alight

echoes of bells shrill
in quiet quelled silent shrine
no one ever came

empty teac...

WHY WE LOVE BEDTIME STORIES

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Have you ever wondered why we love reading bedtime stories to our children
once they pray to God their soul to keep?
It’s more than, as parents, we are tired and we’d like to get some sleep.

I...

What To Do About the State of the Climate

...Once upon a time in land far far away,
The citizens were demanding their president find a way,
While he still held sway,
For climate to have less say,
In how they should plan their day.

With b...

Love Language

...Swahili sighs on blue baited breath
Soothing solitary soul of black
You hold my hand and play with my hair
Keeping kente anxiety back

Your caress and kiss curl my toes
Make me dream of being y...

Dear Sister

...Dear Sister,
On this day, 
in a world that doesn't love us,
Doesn't appreciate us,
But always seems to need us,
To pick up the slack, 
To carry their burdens, 
on our already burdened backs,
...

Tales of the Bone

...Skull where is your brain,
where inside this abandoned cave is your mind?
Did God leave you like this
your jaw open in that crazy grin
the wind echoing under your cracked dome?

There are field...

Roses No Longer In Bloom

...Roses 
Once fully bloomed,  
Now adorning my room. 
I sit and wait for spring's return 
On baited breath I wait and dote   
Poetics of a rose, 
I must compose. 
Roses...

Growth Process

...She stood on the playground
Watching her children run free
Her heart filled with wonder
Trying to see how they see

Innocence ran a muck
Falling into fits of laughter
Presence fully in the mom...

An Oyster's Revenge

...The Sun was acting rather strange
With the Moon and Stars concerned.
As it was not content to share the sky...
And not prepared to wait its turn.
So the sea was simmering and boiling hot
Without...

Immortality

...Mortal are us human kind
seeking peace with baited breath.
Immortality imparts the mind
to believe there is no death.
Immortality is really history …
writings from the then times wealth.
Replay...

The Best Meal of My Life

...Writing.com daily dew drop prompt write a food poem

the best meals of my life
has always been what my wife
cooks up for me every night

she is a genius in the kitchen
always making something ...

To My Soul

...Where the heart and soul compress
Is a secret garden of helpless bliss
Foreshadowed by any distorted pain
Unrelinquished freedom yet never vain
And I shall await your baited breath 
Today tomorr...

The Sun's Face

...The Sun selects her cheeriest face
   when heaviest rains abate

There's nothing worse
   than daylight gray

as with baited breath
   here on Earth
      the Sun's face
         ~ we do awa...

'we Did It'

...No one lied, get it out of your mind
Don't start badmouthing again, putting your foot in your mouth
knocking your teeth around 
You saw the warning signs, you are not a rodeo clown
This isn't new...

First Crush

...She had only a name from the past,
And fading memories of a boy,
All those unsaid words of trust, 
In a life of sorrow, a flash of joy.

That the little girl in early teen,
Trepidly approached ...

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