People Nature Poems

April 3—Look at the sky!

One day the world woke up
To the impending end 
As a new asteroid. 

Quickly dubbed 
The doomsday asteroid
Headed to Earth.

Everyone looked...

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I was a celebrated, professional psychic, offering glimpses of rosy future;
And helping people work through problems, like pink moon, come sooner.

I had learnt to talk...

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More important than any conference
In the world 
Is the conference of the crows.
Which took place 
Just outside my balcony at four.
The President of the crows...

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Clean air has now become a pipe dream. 
The bleak energy speaks loudly,
With a lot of stale and toxic air.
Like Jonah in the belly of...

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Spring is the best time of the year for this old crabapple tree. Winters are too lonely and summers too hot. Autumn is nice but...

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Happy Earth Day 

            Nature is always in her beauty from sunrise to sunset,...

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The happy drops of the rain 
that irrigates the thirsty ground 
Carrying the memory of every soul 
In love with the rain they all sing...

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I was a marvelous ophthalmologist, impacting how others saw this world,
As tomorrow one day sees yesterday, on lanes where hued leaves swirled.

I corrected hazy, crazy...

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A Test from Nature

Months passed since the last rains 
came,
The land was parched, with plants, 
birds and animals dying from thirst,
Some creatures were braying, 
chirping,...

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("Exploded View", 2011, original oil and acrylic)

Asymmetrical Cultural Warfare

Both people and traditional cultures value symmetry;
In humans it indicates healthy genes,
In Cultures it’s probably the same,
Indicating...

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ECLIPSE


Hour by hour
Minute by minute
People come to visit
From the early morning sun
It seems so far the clouds have won
From sunshine to darkness
The eclipse is upon...

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Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. By John Burroughs


Life has many ups...

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We are going to dig to bury our dead:
Mother, father, sisters and brothers,
Uncles, aunts, friends and strangers.
We are going to inter our dead:
Archbishop, pastors, Houngans...

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Internally unconventional, externally conform,
In the game of life, it's the norm.
Always watch yourself, like you're on a stage,
Avoid regrets, don't let your actions rage.

Bullies on...

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Late in the morning, we had a surprise -
An earthquake decided to hit.
Our son’s house, for maybe 10 seconds or so,
Was shaking and more than...

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