The Legendary Kingdom of Florida
...You can almost swim across large parts of Florida, swim and
walk a few steps and then plunge again into the cool sexual
embrace of yet another blue swimming pool.
You can almost cross the peninsul...
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Categories:
holdouts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Time For a Revival
...‘tis Sunday! Time for a revival.
It’s a celebration. Several days of praise
and charismatic speakers.
It is time for the bells
to be heard.
If we still walked the dusty streets
would ex...
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Categories:
holdouts, christian,
Form: Free verse
Each Day of Our Lives
...Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minera...
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Categories:
holdouts, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
Rain
...It rained last night,
or rather it stormed
with thunder, lightning, downpours
too late for the garden
but welcomed by the earth
and the holdouts from summer.
The pond fish
love new water...
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Categories:
holdouts, life, nature, rain,
Form: Prose Poetry