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The Object Lesson
Written: By Miracle Man
3/15/2019

In minutes the tornado had abandoned the scene,
Undisturbed, was a borrowed, glass Butter churn.
Still sitting on the treadle of her old sewing machine,
Placed there awaiting an opportune time for return.

In the yard, what remained, of the trunk of a tree,
Bed...

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Categories: object lesson, god, nature, weather,
Form: Lyric
Object Lesson
This room is filled with objects
Many more than I need
All of them inanimate
Or so it's been decreed 

Longing for my fingers
Piano sits untouched
Hoping that I will deign
To disturb the lingering dust 

My heart is tempestuous 
The Walls wail their indignation
As I button my Coat of...

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Categories: object lesson, imagination, philosophy
Form: Rhyme

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