April Future Poems

Written: April 25, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest

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After the floods have washed away life
hopes and dreams gone with each wave
sitting now by a once-small creek, rife
with catfish we never thought to save
which,...

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Dear Love,
Just a quick note:
You caught me unawares
I thought I lived in circles
You taught me to accept squares
I write to ask for guidance
As straight lines...

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Unseasonal

Leaves shuffle on their stems
fall onto ones which fell before
not yet a storm of Autumn tints 
those will blaze in a month

these are an early...

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My stomach is growling from the coconut trash bubbling in my system, my stomach is growling from toxic energy circulating in the street. My stomach...

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And I would be twenty in a month
with the confidence that I had the world to explore.
I could see the horizon out in the beyond
and...

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thoughts, willy-nilly, drift out of mind
restless in the muddle of entanglements 

things
twisted
like my garden watering hose that weeps the earth to life
a bold green pushed...

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The sound of nature surrounds me, filling the void of silence as I sit at the top of this hill. The sun is shining and...

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I’d give away my freedom just for thee 
And gladly be thy servant all my life,
For where thou art is where I want to be

In...

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Every moment is fleeting fast 
The present will soon become past 
God has gifted this time to man 
To live and use for a short...

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Our mistakes are paid
in generations of denial
Old footsteps defaulting,
new judgments on file

The future in debt
to invoices past
tomorrow debentured
—arrears mounting fast

(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)...

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If, by chance, the world should end tomorrow
How would you spend the last day of your life ~~
Either in revelry or regret?  in jubilation...

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Here we are already in April
        it’s time for new predictions
      A word...

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Some people like to say that I am crazy
to think our sovereignty we’ll one day lose;
to think all countries under one umbrella
would ever be discussed...

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I revised a poem written 
January twenty second
last year – two thousand twenty one
regarding gratitude for Medicare 
Insurance to foot the bill
concerning ability to heal
courtesy...

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