A Strange Love
...Walking main street in Autumnal sunshine
a donkey stops to look at a wolf.
After a mutual gaze they stroll together.
So far, not a word has been said between them.
Words are tricky, they are larg...
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Categories:
bookending, poetry,
Form: Free verse
And Then There Are Two
...So here we are.
Together again.
I won’t ask you how the years have treated you.
I know.
I remember that moment all those years ago,
how your breath caught at the sight of what
they had just ...
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Categories:
bookending, change, child, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To Rome
...Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself...
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Categories:
bookending, marriage,
Form: Prose
Omega Order Evolves Alpha Law
...Humane destiny erupts with Alpha Yang
and divinely reposes with Omega Yin,
a bookending closure pair
Waiting for each life system
and love sequence
to complete this co-identity pilgrimage,
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Categories:
bookending, analogy, culture, life, natural
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Bookending Part One:
...I feel that I have bared the darker moments of my life of late, and it is time to redress the balance
a little, I am in truth, like most, a complex creature capable of deep dark moments and thought...
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Categories:
bookending, dedication, devotion, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Bookending Part Two:
...To reach deep inside of you and feel your heart beating in my grasp
To hold your fragile heart in my hands and cradle it
With such tenderness and care like a newborn
To keep it safe from harm and...
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Categories:
bookending, caregiving, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse