Peace Retreat Poems

Not a house
Not a garage
Not a place for tools
I shouldn't be prescriptive 
Yet these have to be the rules

A chair, a lamp 
A heater
A kettle...

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Midnight lavender echoes whisper,
As the song of the rooster fades.
Mauve tackles the sky with a blush,
Curly coral clouds are dressed in buffed bronze shades.

Ebony snoozes...

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then i set out to escape
i retreat to my fantasy world
i hover over a sea of waterlilies
dreamy magical and surreal



AP: 2nd place 2023

Posted on January...

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The battle is over
It has been lost and won
As the Victor bask in adulation 
The vanquished lick their wound 
Some give up and surrender 
Others...

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A world gone mad
where up is down
and logic flees

A child discerns
but not the fool
enchanted by
his party’s stripe

The lady, blind
a thumb weighs heavy
on her scales

High, hubris...

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callously the world had split
two hemispheres disconnected
scalps and war chests decorated
glamorous uniforms 
heaving with medals
speechless arithmetic 
spacious troops on the map

her mind severed in pain
corporeal...

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HURRICANE SALLY, 9/16/20


With an unprecedented surge
She has taken my name
And is raging her way across the Gulf,
In all manner of alarming the population:
To stir, to...

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i come to clear my mind
see what i can find
meander down a path sublime
running fingers through sands of time

i come to seek the universal truth
while...

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When troubles and turmoil lay their grip on me,
Solace is found in a simpler time and place.  
In my mind or person, it is...

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all at once
        a point of repose,
without end
        my journey 
unresolved-
ambivalence
blooms...

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Enough is enough -no more of the heat
We have been hit by the climate with
(Or it is we who have made the nature
Behave so wildly?...

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A canopy of grandfather oak branches and green leaves
sways between your brilliant Sun and I, 
It’s tattered, blanket of shade moving on your grass,
so inviting...

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I stood beneath the Banyan
Feeling its Mighty power
it spread its boughs
over the forest
A mighty king
Ruling its domain.

I picked up a leaf
Touched my cheek to it
The...

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Remember it not.
Oblivion,
Let it slide into cave.
The annual rings of old wood are
hurting.
Tree of life burning inside.

It cannot happen
it can happen.
There is no certainty.
this is...

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Ardent passion of going high,
Desire to touch the illusion of sky,
Tempted to earn fame and name ,
Restless effort to reach the aim, 

All led to...

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