Long Aeries Poems

Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top to shifting shore,
when, soon, bald eagles cease to soar
and build...

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I know I’ve made a thousand journeys,
withstood the tests of time and foe
shed the dust and shouldered worries
struggled onward against the flow.

Unconforming, seldom bending
straight the path I ever took.
Challenge was my unending passion
contradiction I forsook.

I’ve...

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When growing up on the farm in Indiana even at 'round the age of three,
I began to notice simple yet beautiful things that surrounded me.
Strange though it seems, I found beauty in grumpy bumble bees,
And...

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There they rested on rusting rails so regal yet so stark.
An old steam engine and its caboose now sit silent in the park.
Since I was on a casual stroll and had some time to squander,
I...

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I was born
Under a bad sign
The sign of the scorpion
In late October
In the year of the Goat

I did my chart once
I had five stars
In Scorpio

Sun, Rising Star, Mars, 
Jupiter and Pluto
Moon in Aeries 

A very...

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We ask the sky, how brave is night,
whose shining moon and stars set right
earth's course through darkness  shadowed maze
until the dawn greets, sun ablaze.

Night holds, yet many fear and dread.
Starlight shares quiet peace instead,
and...

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November 29, 2023
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The footfalls are audible in the hall.
I can hear scraping against the wall.
During that time, I was lying...

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