Short Autre Poems

Reminiscence

          In reminiscence
Why am I now, and not then?
        C’est d’un autre sang...

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No never no calls
From daughter or son
No never it seems
Nobody no way. 
Daughter is plastic
And son is too old
No never, no calls,
Never, no way.
Industrial pimping
To arouse a eyebrow,
But to take a mere moment
No, never, no way....

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Silence!
Do you here them call
Their footsteps
Upon the floor
Hide!
For if they find
Us 
What calamity will they bring
Pray!
Fate has failed us

Remember! 
Dawn’s coming
Wait!
Patience leads
Look!
A secret opening
Smile,
Happiness is a reach
Away
Like destiny
There’s always un autre jour...

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Homo sapiens
|
Commune
|
Mega-family
|
Nuclear family
|
Sub-nuclear 
                   fa mily
                              |
                              Autre
                                  |         
                                  Oh! Endangered species?  
                 
                                           -- Ram, R. V....

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I feel like a poppy
in a field of hogweed
My sentences have run dry
I am rudderless in the wilderness
I lack a welter of  letters
unassigned to the wherewithal

I am lost in a cave
unfree to ply my words
The storm clouds jettison their foray
Speechless I gain no semblance
as the autre bards attack me
walking in no one's land 
slow to trust in myself
the world should awaken
with an uninhibited din...

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