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From The Workshop Collection: Canary And Her Gold Mind

...I am still  

Sitting here like an expendable bill  

With no Jill  

Wanting to climb the hill  

Where I will  

Be able to fill  

My bucket from the mill  

Spiked barley for me  
...

A Great Friend

...A Great Friend 
Walk with me in the shadows 
Raise me up when I’m down 
Everybody hurts 
Hard times here and there 
Soul drowning 
Sometimes 
Find me in the dark 
A true friend at heart 
Man...

Poetry Soupris

...
Poetry soupris
Soupris being French for sighs
And we all breathe them
At different times in our lives

We breathe them in relief
And maybe in our sleep
Exhaled after we've railed
Against th...

Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004

...Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz ...

Forget About It

...Reciting, of the alphabet, not a waste.
I may get an A plus for trying.

I whistled for it, foraging
through its branches. Collaborating
with the Alpha and Omega, searching
for gold - that Atla...

but a shell

...
ghosts …

peek every corner
these walls were the vessel of a family -
the body of a progenic spirit that
inhabited these bones of wood and
plaster and glass … and hope
for nearly four tens o...

Jesus Is Everyone

...Jesus is everyone who hangs on a tree
Jesus is everyone who sets us free
Jesus our everyone died in the place of me
Jesus our everyone fulfilled the law righteously
Jesus is everyone Who fulfille...

They've Betrayed Us - II

...II.
Do you know of lovely Janice,
freshman in university,
Dad sent her to expand her mind,
to reason and think critically,
hoping that it would prepare her
for a world that often is harsh,
ins...

Year One

...In Loving Memory of David Padilla Jr.

Taken by the unforeseen.
I share my birth month with
(K)Crystal. 
My Cousin must be
feeling phantom parameters and
missing links. 
Zoom.
Thumbing throu...

When Democracy Almost Died

...The faith in our Democracy
Was almost lost most shamefully,
When losers made their foolish claims
And railed against imagined blames.

The lap dog trogs obeyed the call
To challenge what was cl...

Moscow II

...As swift assaults endeavored to prevail,
the magnitude of death was asinine.
‘Twas such a toll above a measured scale
that no explicit value could define.
As battles raged, no exploit could surmo...

Moscow III

...And all the world would change forevermore,
for solitude’s content has come undone.
Its island bliss could harbor it no more  
as destiny unleased the rising Sun.
The sleeping giant woke to see i...

ANOTHER TIME

...ANOTHER TIME

It was another time, not at all like now
None thought history was in the making
Hard labouring with sweat on the brow

A full day’s work and limbs were aching
Some were still wai...

Maria Tallchief

...Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief
bigotry gave her grief
failing health, unsteady,
she railed, “Get my swan costume ready!”...

George Washington Set Potus Precedent No Lie

...George Washington Set Potus Precedent...no lie

trumped hill re: by a bill yon votes
and bridged tradition (Abe Lee) linkedin 
to present president; biden his time
trying to build back better
s...

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