Short Foulness Poems

Strange how weather can affect our moods
From foulness to upbeatness, you walk out in the nude
Perhaps a bit extreme
Well you know what I mean
Affects people differently, you may appear unglued...

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Memorial Day 2016
Written: by Tom Wright

Each Memorial Day is like a magnet
That holds captive, my thoughts,
Of those before me who didn’t return,

And to those who returned
That war has left un-erasable footprints on.

War has a way of accomplishing that,
For there is no reversal of things done, seen,
Or clearing your nostrils of the foulness of war;
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Memorial Day 2016
Written: by Tom Wright

Each Memorial Day is like a magnet
That holds captive, my thoughts,
Of those before me who didn’t return,

And to those who returned
That war has left un-erasable footprints on.

War has a way of accomplishing that,
For there is no reversal of things done, seen,
Or clearing your nostrils of the foulness of war;
...

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Music… Liquor…
Make you happy… 
I can see in your eyes
Laughing in the alcohol foulness
Enjoying in the dimness  

You can enjoy only in darkness
Cannot face the daylight
To cover up 
A fresh scar on your forehead  
That happened while you were working 
With your former fellow labors.
  
Music… Liquor…
Make you happy… 
In your new high society 
Believing is the true happiness
But you have to hide out the daylight: 
The real wisdom!...

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I witnessed a body lying 
On the dead earth while formless and dismal
A mire swollen and dying  
From this body arose a child so small
Out of the flesh stinking of gall 
A child whiter than a pearly lily 
Who flew into paradise tranquilly 
The foulness of flesh remained not
The child’s pureness left the world’s morbilli
For water and fire begot


Inspired by a passage from "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich, in the long text version....

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