Winter No Choice Poems

Oh, your long arms
and your hands..
could you know love
what they mean to me?

Try to be James Dean cool 
as if any man could ever be
I...

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Written: November 07, 2023
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Am I condoning a state of affluence?
In recent desultory decadence
Have...

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OUR CHOICE

this is the winter of our discontent
the four horsemen ride exultant
slaughter in churches
bombed nurseries
corrupt legislators
pollinators dying for lack of forage 
all the sun’s blessings...

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If there was no tomorrow you would
(a)come out of winter of discontent to walk in the 
    garden of spring to enjoy...

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Choices and decisions,                      ...

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Hours To Dream


I stepped out of my bed,

With clumsy hair atop my head,

The sun rose, bright yellow and scorching red,

The birds would sing and sing...

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When I was a child,                                         ...

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Juxtaposition

Living in the grey shadows of ambivalence–
Somewhere in between grace and sin –
Begging for light yet clinging to darkness
Longing to escape into the heavenly yet...

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WINTER
in
anger-
whips up the waves,
pounds the shingle
shore
SPRING
in
action-
brings to life
and feathers its
nest
SUMMER
so 
lazy-
rests the soul
and flowers the
land
AUTUMN
so
mellow-
scents and sounds
in the harvest
home....

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a thick
mist blankets
the winter dawn-
necklaced jewels bedeck
the hedge...

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Some have a will to suicide.
We do not want to live.
Crumpled dreams piled high in the dirt out back.
Ten thousand demons chide every and all...

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ARTIST’S CHOICE –
JOURNAL VIII

This old woman –
It’s always a woman
–
Looking out a window
Why not a man?
No      he’s on the
front porch...

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looking in the mirror,
emotions weaker than love and fear.
thats what they tell me.
and im staring into aryan eyes,
matching the paint of the walls.
pale cold fresh,
reflecting...

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