Loved The Stars

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“Though my soul

may set in darkness,

it will rise

in perfect light;

I have loved

the stars too fondly

to be fearful of the night.”

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― Sarah Williams

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Elfje:            (Cinquain)

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conventional

the usual

not that different

more of the same

traditional

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Tanka:             5-7-5, 7-7

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fearful of the night

things heard and felt but not seen

boogie man stories

 

big brother is watching us

facts that we will never see

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Poem:   win or lose

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oh God, why me
not now, I have to pee
I haven’t seen what I came to see
the home team scoring a victory

standing in the restroom listening to the stadium roar
I just knew that the hero made the winning score
my story will always be, I was there, I swore
on a stack of Bibles, no need for an encore

stadium seats thirty thou, a hundred said they were there
aren’t that many people out here in the middle of nowhere
the team couldn’t afford the hero so he was traded
the future looks bleak for a team so degraded

my loyalty remains true, I am a fanatic
we leave it to the sports writers to deliver the melodramatic
after all it is just entertainment, boys playing a game
win or lose, the world will remain the same

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ME and the Boss

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Spiritual Wellspring

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“Reclaiming the sacred

in our lives

naturally brings us

close once more to

the wellsprings of poetry.”

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― Robert Bly

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Elfje:

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indecision

teeter totter

on the fence

make up your mind

limbo

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Haiku:

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torrential downpour

more rain than the ground can hold

spring gully washer

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Poem:

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the table levitated at the seance
from this world to another by conveyance

how many souls are there in limbo
is there a special place for the hero

when the body dies is there a lingering spirit
while channeling must one be coherent

did parapsychology invent the poltergeist
such supernatural talk the bane of the theist

the backward collar a symbol of the clerical
a uniform designed by the monks chimerical

did Serling invent the twilight zone
do you know what they will put on your tombstone

can you differentiate between the nightmare and the dream
did Edvard Munch picture you when he painted the scream

the supernatural tale relies on the final twist
the question is:  do we really exist . . . ? ? ?

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ME and the Boss

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