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Best Straighter Poems


Stand Straighter
Stand stranger, O Love, stand stranger,
Stand straighter, and lift up thine eyes;
The wings of the sun sweep about us---
We, the gift of the earth to the skies.

We have done what the god has forbidden,
We have leapt to the boughs of our tree.
Yea, now the danger...

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Categories: straighter, adventure, philosophyearth, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Straighter Lines
The shorter the distance
between concept and words
The deeper the impact
—of what’s to be heard

(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)...

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Categories: straighter, voice,
Form: Free verse

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