Summer Society Poems

Allow the rain 
Hunt for berries
Echoes cast our shadows
Accept the start
Deduce the summer nights

Lemon scented mead
Initiate the Eclipse
Escape the Bunker
Silver snow storms with warm shelter

Protect...

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As I hold back tears confronting fear I wonder if people ponder,
The image of those who plunder the innocent old and younger,
Cities becoming jungles I'm...

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("Turning of the Tide", 2019, original encaustic)

The End of Freedom

In the long winter nights
As everyone sleeps
Or long summer days
As everyone plays
The force of habits
Long ingrained
By...

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took a walk
sunny day
car alarm...

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October is one of those months that begin to transition and change to prepare for winter.

As our days begin to shorten, this tenth month brings...

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the scalding smoke
smothers
raging wildfires burn with bestial fury
toxic smoke saturates the Lower 48
smoky air sears through lethargic lungs

AIR QUALITY ALERTS!
AQI 80>100>300>400+
Codes Orange>Red>Purple>Maroon

purple dots proliferate on...

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Oxygen saturates the skies breathing fresh air in my lungs and helium resting on my shoulders beckoning the universe to come. You can see hydrogen...

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A private club was run by old Tom the cat,               ...

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The streets by the beach keep moving you toward the sunny side of the sea. 
Where people in hordes strut on the boards sniffing at...

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Those were the days my friend, how blessed we were
Although, in past quandam days, knew it not.
Home to us was warm and dry, sound and...

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Sailing in the air as a worker with no name 
Trailing the air to find liquid gold that sun and earth did birth 
Prevailing and...

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Pleasantly radiant, tranquil weather
blue skies & gently benevolent wind
a shimmering gift from Mother Nature
(a smoldering summer lurking in the distance)

Compulsively tracking an unquantifiable self:
steps, exercise...

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(Cinderella is the protagonist of the 1697 fairytale by Charles Perrault. The whimsical tale is later told in 1812 by the Grimm brothers.)

“Why, if it...

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She’s a lyrical dame with a sexy refrain
Creeping cat-like out of the dark,
Crossing the high bridge, the wind at her back,
On the hunt like a...

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Just when life was getting back to normal. 
We get smacked with another load of bull. 
It dragged us in with strong magnetic pull. 
Removing...

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