Nostalgia Power Poems

When you hit bliss, what does your mind revert to? 
A song, the lyrics may I be so bold in asking why? 
Do the words...

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Black lives matter. Me too.
Not my president. Give peace a chance.
Luck runs out. I like immigrants. 
Power must be challenged by power. 

Equal and opposite...

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Ecstatic, electrifying, exhilaration ignites inside,
Inspiring my soul to capture the hope,
Songs echoing on the coast where there is light,
Silent light tossing, trembling, tempting my thoughts,
Into...

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My flag is not black n white with a blue streak 
My flag is not a field of white stars n scars of machine guns
My...

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II
I was thinking ... Absences
Used to make hearts grow fonder
Or so the proverb said, in my youth
True in some ways ... Untrue in another 
Some...

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Social distancing,
including global apartheid,
brings us to Zoom
into each Other, virtually,

More virtuously win/win
or uncivilly win/lose?

For remote educational,
advocacy,
organizing and planning
social communication
reading
and exercise
and meditation
prayer
and therapeutic circles,

Religious
and secular humanitarian
win/win...

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I wonder if she thinks of me
Does she see my body in her mind
Like I see hers wrapped around me
Does she taste me on her...

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With the sanctity of ignorance
Flocks follow the wolf 
With truth caged 
The masses flow 
With allegiance to whims
People praise their foes

One day it will be...

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We were halfway back to school after
Our hot lunch with our mom
of warm grilled cheese sandwiches
dunked in tomato soup

I turned to my twin and said...

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It was celebration of the Panguni Pongal for the sixth day
People assemble before the Goddess Kaali, to pray

Big sand pot is full of water
Below is...

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Because I dared, I have tonight
This is my flight into soft light
Where flowers drenched with dew,
delight, as canopy of sky turns heavenly blue.

Because I dared,...

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I was not thinking about you
	Wondering mind lost its way
It caught the sun’s blaze.
	Elevated the hidden misery,
Sun’s blaze was a pure reflection,
	A pure reflection of...

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Let my soul rise free,
Let my body be.
No one shall ever know,
No one shall ever care,
Buried under the snow,
In the middle of nowhere.

Let me ride,...

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Dedicated to every young man bestowed the honor of wearing 
the glorious Oklahoma Sooners' Crimson & Cream 

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Over sixty years, boy and man, I have...

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Motherland (Eclogue) 

In the country of my forefathers, 
Economy is friendless and upset, 
Politics are sleeping with labour, 
Justice is seducing foreign crime, 
Poetry is...

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