The Locust and the Tree
...I wish I could tell you
And have you understand
That you are you,
And I am me.
We put so many years between us
And in all that time you’ve changed nothing
While I’ve had to change everything ab...
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Categories:
locust tree, analogy, best friend, change,
Form: Free verse
Flesh and Bone
...Was I a bit too real for you
too raw, like meat bleeding on the butcher’s block
too honest like an angel
as I stripped the skin from my flesh
flesh from my bones
put every prickling nerve on dis...
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Categories:
locust tree, abuse, anger, angst, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Evil Tree
...Amid the dark and gloomy glen
you tower where you've always been
a spectral shape, foreboding, fierce
with witchy wands to prod and pierce
Evil, evil locust tree
how you haunt and worry me
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Categories:
locust tree, evil, imagination, nature, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Old Foundation
...amidst the tangle of trumpet vines
young saplings and half rotted stumps
where buffalo grass is near head high
an old stone foundation silently rests
it bore the full weight for many years
an ...
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Categories:
locust tree, farm, growth, inspiration, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
I Awake To Darkness (Part 7)
...I awake to the girl sleeping by my side
The clouds are everywhere within the blue sky
I wake the girl and her eyes open slow
As we stand her and I have no place to go
We start to walk and I begin...
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Categories:
locust tree, adventure, visionarygirl, bird, bird,
Form: Epic
The Locust Tree
...Alone
in ancient
plantation and forest-
a false accacia the best
survives...
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Categories:
locust tree, nature,
Form: Cinqku