Short Partnering Poems

Wafting on the summer breezes,
Intoxicating scent of rose.
Stills me just to breathe the fragrance,
Admiring how my garden grows.

In my many years of living
I have watched the ebb and flow
Of variety of passions,
Flirting briefly, letting go.

I found a love to last forever
When first I stirred the fertile sod.
This loved labor brings such splendor
I know I'm partnering with God.

Won 2nd in Brian's contest...

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Partnering with death, poverty
Of hunger and homelessness
Seek the equality of all—Vowing 
Never to discriminate;

But their perpetrators
Continue to control the odds
Favoring a hued majority;

A hued majority remaining
A minority concern as their opioid
Conditions are not prescribed—
Just over the counter cash addictions;

So odd be the ways of mercy and equanimity
When it comes to the hued like you and me;
How odd....

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