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Subsistence
Devour bliss of life
emblazing the bare soul in
the honour of subsistence....

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Categories: subsistence, life, philosophy, poetry, truth,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Mid Summers Subsistence Farm
A Mid Summers Subsistence Farm
David J Walker

The scent of the fast-coming dawns summer heat
A rush to meet the morning in a straw strewn barn

Morning chores on a subsistence farm 
of scant moisture the dry air awaits

The mid-days unbearable blaze 
Indiscriminately burning girls and boys bare...

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Categories: subsistence, allegory, summer, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sifting Time
always questions always apprehensions
in the process of getting through this life
begins with stunning realization
there is more to this universe than I
flows through doubt and self-examination
into a struggle to simply get by

following rules truly all that there is
why not search for something much more than this
try...

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Categories: subsistence, future, life, philosophy, time,
Form: Sonnet

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Premium Member Nomads of the Desert
Wander lust their families’ motivation
Nomads fluctuating in flowing migration,
Seasonal uprooting to discover new ways
Looking in new directions in anticipation.

Restless as the cirrus streaking the sky
Wander lust their families’ motivation,
They gather not, and with time dissipate
Having done so since primordial creation.

The land they claim their sovereign...

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Categories: subsistence, family, perspective, society,
Form: Quatern

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