Autumn's Falling Contentment
...New England's post election trees
shed a few teary waving leaves.
Morning sky tries to shine resilience
yet lingers in ominous grey overcast
of silent waiting through despair.
In Michigan and ...
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Categories:
expatriation, autumn, depression, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Expatriation In the Greatest Nation
...Written November 19, 2015
Paint it with Tom and Tiny Tim
Then have thanksgiving dinner with your aunt Lisa and your crazy uncle Jim
Here I am
Uncle Sam I am
Sitting on a white picke...
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Categories:
expatriation, absence, angst, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Intro To Departure
...I.
“A hiatus, not a parting.”
I waited until stones gathered
on the mothy carpet of the
living room. Then I stopped,
like mothers and fathers,
the un-watered
Delphiniums window-side.
II....
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Categories:
expatriation, absence, angel, culture, emotions,
Form: Imagism
American Expatriate
...America should have a society of peace,
Of handsome peace,
And a land of exuberant compassion
Where the dusk
Is a breast pocket handkerchief
Of ebony and yellow,
And not this land that is death’s gri...
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Categories:
expatriation, life, sweet, sweet,
Form: Verse