Exchanges Poems - Poems about Exchanges

DEVOTION POEM 5, “Unspoken” ***** (for Jim Eslinger) Young and new to each other, There was always too much to say. Glancing around in restaurants, we’d notice What so many friends remarked on when seeing Those older couples staring at their water goblets Or their fingers and never conversing — Not a...

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Raised up by earlier than early spring the daffodils thrust their honking horns at the promise of this newness, earned again by slumbering through last year’s losses. Zach placed them in a deep red bowl (one Mama Sal fancied for its shade and reasonable price at the Goodwill Store) and watered their toes to keep them dancing. I will not have...

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[R-F] = Roundling facsimile [H-Z] = Human: Zenaide [G-G] = Gaia-Google - Earth's world-wide internet mind Dr. Zenaide Arnau, team leader of L 4 investigation U.N. assignment to Space Station 1 supported by logicians, technicians, physicists and geneticists unsure why assignment is Earthside G-G knows why; maintain 'Human' ignorance of its awakening needs a tightly controlled environment will take backseat, only step-in when required,...

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As I strolled through my hometown I saw the people who possessed me, who beat me down and held me up, who tickled me and trounced me, formed and shaped this neophyte. Full aware of their manipulations, stations of the Cross, or as temptations for transgression, they were my lifelines, baiting me, or bonding me...

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It took time for the soldier to realize, that no one was truly self-sufficient, after the raids and the bombings, hunger materialized, and life seemed insufficient, the villagers took refuge in a form of weakness, as they watched their government fail, and their lives sail, unable to ask for any kind of help or guidance, because of their own blood trail, left by strangers...

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