Best Hastening Poems

In the time of hastening
all dread is loosed.
It is loosed upon the world
in torrents of salt.
Still, we be not seasoned
as the wood.
Too green, we shrink.

The oak must be polished,
the fine mahogany stained, 
the walnut drawn out
like a slow summer.
Inward the rafters
belie promises of strength.

The hearth...

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(A repost from 2019)

My favorite aunt is dying.. cancer, quiet and consuming as a flame..

Seven short weeks ago she was easily doing an hour of step aerobics, unaware of this intruder, this murderer within. Now she's lifted from bed like a rag doll.

She is my...

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Young kids think this is just a game,
Running down a court learning how to tame.
Jump up, shoot the ball!
You have to give it your all.
You hear the coach yell,
thinking to yourself, what is that smell?
The smell of sweaty socks,
after running like a fox. 
Next thing...

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Heart waves 
always hasten
and gets heated up..
Only for you to come 
sink inside and cool it up..!!

~DEEPA~...

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