tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34076242646272081282024-03-05T16:35:16.415-08:00Duane's PoeTreeToday's poets, today's poems. Share yours, send to duanev@hotmail.com
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger6500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-53619702762924862552020-07-26T09:22:00.001-07:002020-07-26T09:22:35.526-07:00John Zedolik writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so snouts to the grass and straight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and will masses with much greater press. </span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-77000343168667669592020-07-26T09:11:00.003-07:002020-07-26T09:11:29.308-07:00John Zedolik writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ars Vbique Est</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and dread whenever I need a shot,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">a taut perspective, of immortal gloom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">[Ars vbique est = Art is everywhere] </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><img alt="Figure on cliffside walkway holding head with hands" data-file-height="4000" data-file-width="3223" height="640" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Edvard_Munch%2C_1893%2C_The_Scream%2C_oil%2C_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard%2C_91_x_73_cm%2C_National_Gallery_of_Norway.jpg/220px-Edvard_Munch%2C_1893%2C_The_Scream%2C_oil%2C_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard%2C_91_x_73_cm%2C_National_Gallery_of_Norway.jpg" width="515" /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The Scream -- Edvard Munch</span></span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-42608004737999857292020-07-26T09:01:00.001-07:002020-07-26T09:01:32.629-07:00John Zedolik writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">minor mayhem and mischief</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">which yarn elicited laughter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so what better than a story</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">of neutral to unattractive temper</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">noggins and proportionate brains encased</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to boot though without the plating</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and other unthinkers bring.</span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-14419385139152771902020-07-25T18:02:00.000-07:002020-07-25T18:02:19.612-07:00John Doyle writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lesser-Known Presidential Assassinations</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The blood I took, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I added it to the bones from lesser-read pages in the Holy Book,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adam had sisters, brothers, no-one spoke of, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from tributaries of the Rio Grande,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of New England make generous donations</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to rebuild our church-hall blown down </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the winds and rains of 1908.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was born with lots of things across my hands,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the word of someone's Lord;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carl plays Heartland Rock, Carl plays Afrobeat,</span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-8247045066700475192020-07-25T15:44:00.002-07:002020-07-25T15:44:52.247-07:00John Doyle writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fade from my shins</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as I dissolve into my myself,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">appearing moments later</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as an acrobat in Rush and Lusk Station</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">haunted by the puppeteer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who pulled the children</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like seaweed from the waters -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it makes a believable alibi</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">explaining myself </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to a man checking tickets</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who spent last night sleeping</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in a wooden hotel from the late 19th Century</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">while his wife, son and daughter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">trotted off to Sunday School</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unaccompanied</span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-20959802342464328772020-07-25T15:41:00.003-07:002020-07-25T15:41:40.319-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class=""> Two Looks At The First Reality </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""> (or What or Who creates it all)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Depending on one’s leanings,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">And assuming one is interested,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">I, myself am all-enthralled </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">By themes self-vested in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">One view is that Reality, the Primary</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Is really One, without a sun - just one Entirety.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The second is the same Supreme</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">With arms, legs, body, plus an aim;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">One which we address by name.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Who often spotlights sin and blame</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">But calls on us to love our neighbour -</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Finely tuned through daily labor.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">I find I prefer the former:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">One which says that causes good in motive, act</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Result in good-ness as a fact;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">And causes whose intents are wrong</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Though mind is rational and sharp </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Will end in ends that taint and warp. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Each theory is complementary.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Depending on how you are born</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">(with preferences pre-natally ‘learned’)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">You can arrive one early morn</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">At one with It-The-Energy,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Free from all impurity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">These little stanzas simplify</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">A lifelong try</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">At transformation.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Drawing on our screwed-up best</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">At wrestling with the gifts and mess </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">We’re born to guest.</span></span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-83303124519761672722020-07-25T15:40:00.000-07:002020-07-25T15:40:06.007-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Words That Changed Our Lives: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class=""><span class="">Pandemic, Pandemonium, Endemic</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""></span><br class="" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Words that show lives but a tribe:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">There to scribe, describe our lives. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Words that come from health or sickness: mind and body:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Words from which no-one escapes:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Fearlessness, speechlessness, endlessness;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Dangerousness, selfishness;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Sowing seeds of mental shapes </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">That come from mind-to-mouth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Now’s come the time to learn some new:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class=""><i class="">Epidemic </i>and <i class="">Pandemic, </i></span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Plus another word to view: <i class="">Endemic.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Just a few, but whew! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Let me put you in the picture,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Hoping that it’s not titanic - the Titanic!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">First come epidemics:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Measles, smallpox, influenzas…</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">How to conquer, name and aim,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">How could and could we cure the sum? </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">We do sometimes rule over some -</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">But vanquished? Germs and virus are not dumb,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Survive anti-biotically, the foe of symbiotically.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">It is the year two thousand twenty:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Epidemic now pandemic,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Plentiful and more than plenty;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Too, too many - far too many.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Struck by the invisible;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">We, vaccine-less, susceptible, </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Daring not to breathe or touch,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Wondering, asking when will it become too much?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Thus we leave the first word, </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Come to the last, worst word:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Endemic: </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Some background forever found somewhere;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Will not be killed, wiped out or cleared;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">And underground a countlesss year</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Alive and well and waiting for…</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class=""><span class="">pandemonium:wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar: there was complete pandemonium—everyone just panicked. ORIGIN
mid 17th century: modern Latin (denoting the place of all demons, in
Milton's Paradise Lost), from pan- ‘all’ + Greek daimōn ‘demon’.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class=""><span class=""> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class=""><span class="">pandemic: (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world; an outbreak of a pandemic disease: the results may have been skewed by an influenza pandemic.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class=""><span class=""> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class=""><span class="">endemic (adjective): (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or
in a certain area: complacency is endemic in industry today.•
[attributive] (of an area) in which a particular disease is regularly
found: the persistence of infection on pastures in endemic areas.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class=""></span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class=""> </span></span></span></div>
</div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-36483528612000248082020-07-25T15:35:00.004-07:002020-07-25T15:35:30.469-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Examining ‘My’</span></span></span><br />
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""><i class="">My,</i> means belonging to…</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Does anything belong to you?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">I don’t think so.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""><i class="">My</i> face, body, cat or house.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Worse,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""><i class="">My</i> child, <i class="">my</i> wife and coin possessed?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Preposterous and pointless.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Mine to own?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Fallacious and illusion;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">All’s a loan.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Each object, person, situation</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Not the tiniest bit mine.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">It is better that you say: </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">“I go, you go, he goes, she goes”.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Goodness knows, each object goes:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Nothing’s mine and nothing’s yours;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Each thing seen, touched, held; a guise..</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The range of verbs you choose to use</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Should be reviewed to understand reality.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Everyone and everything but temporary.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Try to take a day or two</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Getting used to finding out what, how and who </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Relates to you.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Rotation, alternation, staying in our lives a day</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">But never staying always.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">We use ‘my’ without a thought. <i class="">My</i> goodness! Oh <i class="">my</i>! We use it affectionately, sympathetically<i class="">; my</i> dear boy; <i class="">my </i>poor baby! Also belonging to or associated with the speaker: my name is Arlene; my friend.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> And yet, and yet…</span><i class=""><span style="font-size: small;">my is possessive. </span></i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""> </span></span></span></div>
</div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-13770288685711612182020-07-25T14:54:00.000-07:002020-07-25T14:54:05.866-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""> July 4th, 2020</span></span></div>
<br /><div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">It is the fourth of July.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">A day we usually</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Fill with joy:</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Fireworks, parades and games</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Its names:</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Fourth of July:</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Independence Day.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">United, free;</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">No more a colony;</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">A formal declaration</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Made of five brave men</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">And Thomas Jefferson,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Making history, and</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">The beginnings of a USA.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">So, Americans,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">My dear, dear Swedish friends</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">And any there may be elsewhere,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Let us wear the day</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">In camaraderie and play.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif, EmojiFont; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Most all in harmony.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="">Happy, Happy 4th July! </span></span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-876246235337965892020-07-25T14:52:00.001-07:002020-07-25T19:05:23.195-07:00Duane L. Herrmann writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">FLY WITH ME<br />
<br />
I want to fly </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">like butterflies – <br />
wings <br />
colorful <br />
bits of beauty.<br />
Oh, that I <br />
could also fly.<br />
I stretch and stretch <br />
and WINGS appear!!<br />
Slowly dry them <br />
in warm sun <br />
and off <br />
into clouds.<br />
Finding food <br />
I drink deep <br />
and merge <br />
into flower colors.<br />
Come!<br />
Fly with me!</span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-9224216958272060482020-07-25T14:51:00.002-07:002020-07-25T19:05:42.425-07:00Duane L. Herrmann writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">LITTLE BODIES<br />
<br />
Tiny corpses:<br />
skunks, possums,<br />
rats and coons,<br />
trapped for bait<br />
and left to rot<br />
to draw<br />
their predators:<br />
for them<br />
an alluring stink!</span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-50084986356425270862020-07-25T14:50:00.002-07:002020-07-25T19:06:00.371-07:00Duane L. Herrmann writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">FROZEN TAN<br />
<br />
Northern sky <br />
of pale orange sun <br />
filled with streaks <br />
of pinks, blues, and whites <br />
contrasting above <br />
skeletons of trees, <br />
frozen tans of grass, <br />
fields of snow and stubble: <br />
final colors <br />
of a dying day.<br />
One day and time, <br />
one civilization, <br />
passes for another <br />
cycling through time <br />
we see only <br />
when looking far enough <br />
across time and space <br />
and experience.</span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-8813016647039335302020-07-25T14:49:00.004-07:002020-07-25T19:06:19.632-07:00Duane L. Herrmann writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">BABY BONDING<br />
<br />
I talked to her – <br />
wide eyed <br />
she listened, <br />
our mother couldn’t bother, <br />
while I held her bottle: <br />
my first job, at two.<br />
Later, she was the one <br />
to play with: <br />
a companion <br />
at last.<br />
When brothers came <br />
we both worked –<br />
a team. <br />
I was taller <br />
to reach stove knobs <br />
we had to cook, <br />
mother <br />
was “too busy.”<br />
Competition too: <br />
washing dishes alternating weeks:<br />
I would NOT wash hers, <br />
she would NOT wash mine: <br />
we understood being fair –<br />
Our mother didn’t.<br />
Submissive, we survived <br />
but in the world – <br />
lacked defenses.</span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-47775469809443996412020-07-25T14:48:00.005-07:002020-07-25T19:06:38.421-07:00Duane L. Herrmann writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">GRIEVING FOR…<br />
<br />
Have you ever grieved, <br />
or even thought, <br />
of the deaths <br />
of uncounted millions <br />
of creatures <br />
and beings, <br />
some sentient, <br />
some not, <br />
on countless planets <br />
orbiting<br />
how many suns <br />
that go nova?<br />
Painful, <br />
fiery deaths, <br />
agony instant, <br />
then ending – <br />
and no one else <br />
will ever know!</span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-74845573736126273252020-07-25T14:47:00.003-07:002020-07-25T14:47:28.311-07:00Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Insight Out of Sight <br />
<br />
Whom have I pleased the most?<br />
Those farthest from me except for those who know me not at all though I
have made many such happy too, despite their not knowing me<br />
<br />
Whom have I annoyed even hurt the most? Those closest to me. Why would
others bother? Yet I may have hurt many I don’t know, them unknowing
me personally, me unknowing or knowing only dimly in exactly how my
being what I am doing what I do eating what I eat consuming what I
consume by my class function for instance or my way of life.<br />
<br />
Which is the real me?<br />
Which the unreal?<br />
Is there a real me?<br />
Is there really a me at all, real or unreal?<br />
Or am I just my own perception of a tiny node of the Great Universe?<br />
<br />
Who’s to judge? I myself? Or other self appointed judges? Or Church
or State? Or this uncertain entity called God or Soul or whatever? And
what is to be the consequence of such judging? More of the same, or
the opposite? <br />
<br />
Whom do I love that I hate so much?<br />
Whom do I hate that I love so much?<br />
And they, me ?<br />
<br />
One may pause to reflect<br />
But will it change things?<br />
Can these things qua things actually be changed at all ever by one person?<br />
By one person’s thoughts?<br />
By a thought? <br />
Some think so<br />
Others disagree <br />
<br />
For life must go on <br />
Or at least time will pass<br />
The world will go by<br />
Or come to an end<br />
Inexorably <br />
<br />
Exactly what is it that we really can control, if not our own thoughts?<br />
Not even emotions<br />
Not even action<br />
Perhaps not even thoughts<br />
For <br />
From where do thoughts arise?<br />
<br />
Think about it <br />
Or not<br />
It’s up to you<br />
It’s up to me<br />
Or is it?</span></span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-73520749003807555012020-07-25T14:43:00.005-07:002020-07-25T14:43:52.303-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Sin Of Pride</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I heard the phrase: it froze, was glued.<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />First thought: What’s sin?<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The second: what is pride?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A sin is when you miss the mark,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />(Connected to self- condemnation –<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sadly, to iniquity )<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Pride is when you’ve chosen wrongly,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Guided by a mostly falsely high opinion<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Of oneself and one’s importance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Yet we use it as a virtue,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Nurture as if it were good;<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Pride in country, children, kin..<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Fact: exclusion and restriction;<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Leaving out, elimination;,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Failing to include oneself as sinful,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Ignorant and rude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Reality contains the certitude<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That we are all a family<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />With variations in the tree:<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Tendency and quality, person, personality.<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />None is better or more worthy –<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />(one more fancy theory).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We’ve all filled with invasive traits:<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“All-inclusive” like the place.<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Different nose, different face,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Different color, difference race;<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Talents more or less intense;<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />On the fence;<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Misrepresented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Pride: to swap for modesty,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A lack of vanity,<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The ever growing insight that we<br class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />All are everyone and nobody.</span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-6412983338846846792020-07-25T14:40:00.001-07:002020-07-25T14:40:09.760-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Words & Marriage II</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Word Paralysis: Stunted Growth</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Couples do it all the time:</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Talk in phrases long cliched by platitude,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Stalled and staled attitude.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">They don’t communicate</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">(except perhaps when fornicating).</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Do not learn, the phrases all the same,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Repeated at each meal, each film.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Reprised like some old pale rhythm.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">They’re missing out on IQ-raising inspiration,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Real communication</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Worn or lost in years or habit:</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Customary words inadequate.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">They learn to neither listen </span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Nor to pay attention,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Stopping up their listening ears</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Through years of word paralysis.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Sometimes deafness very real</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Strikes one or the other mate.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">There goes all conversation’s skill</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Communication standing still,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Or worse, traveling at speed downhill.</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">What to do?</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">What the solution?</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Marriage as a dance for two</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Goes falling through</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Through simple lack of word renewal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Who wants boredom,</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Wants to snore when loved one speaks?</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Love goes sneaking out the door</span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">When words no longer stir or spur.</span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-55649173442111213612020-07-25T14:38:00.003-07:002020-07-25T14:38:39.080-07:00Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>THUNDERSTORM PREDICTED <br />
<br />
I like thunderstorms <br />
I am like thunder itself these days<br />
Or like a thundercloud<br />
Shot through with electric impulses<br />
Split by rod lightning <br />
Dark yet luminous <br />
Dissolving<br />
Into tears of rain<br />
For no other reason<br />
Than the impulse<br />
Of the season <br />
I do not stop to ask <br />
The why’s and wherefore’s<br />
Of my actions<br />
Or my being<br />
I am what I am<br />
I do what I do<br />
Like a thunderstorm <br />
I gather, I burst<br />
I dissolve <br />
And then <br />
I am<br />
No more.<br />
<br />
O yes!<br />
You can see me<br />
But<br />
You cannot be me <br />
<br />
I am either I <br />
Or I am a Thunderstorm<br />
<br />
I prefer <br />
Thunderstorm </span></span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-83990368162117991002020-07-25T14:36:00.005-07:002020-07-25T14:36:58.878-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Bliss</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">What does <i class="">bliss</i> consist of,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Or, to put it properly,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Of what does bliss consist?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">One has been told</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The properties of godliness</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Are power, peace and purity,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Knowledge, love and bliss.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">An easily dismissed and hard-defined</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Form of continued happiness.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">One so refined</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">And sifted through a sieve so fine,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">There’s no impurity of sadness left,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The deftest hand designing it.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">We human beings never quit</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">In walking roads, bearing loads,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Experimenting with all sorts of modes</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">To get to, feel it.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">A unit with no parts,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Mind, heart dissolved and blended</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">In a homogeneous and splendid fire,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Sparkling in it’s colourless, see-through attire.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">He or she in whom it’s sired</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Has aspired eons.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Then, as if by accident</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">It’s sent! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">A burst, a still, a calm,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Perhaps the ultimate of balm.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Who knows of what this bliss consists?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Does he or she go on existing?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Or is this state out of which </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">One never is the same?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Is it the final aim?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">God knows.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""></span></span></span><div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class=""><span class="">Waking at 7am, my mind went to peace, power, purity, knowledge love and <i class="">bliss - </i>qualities I’ve been told make up the origin of origins, its machinery, innards and insides.<i class=""> </i>Having thought deeply about the first five qualities, writing about
them in sundry ways, finding numerous images to use, I have never been
able to understand and certainly write about the last.</span></span><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""> Somehow, I was and am inspired to give it a go.</span></span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-70081586517656296612020-07-25T14:33:00.003-07:002020-07-25T14:33:55.812-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class=""><span class="">Each Trick On Mac</span></span></span><br />
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">I wish I knew each trick on Mac</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">To send and track;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Each new technique</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">A winning streak in cyber-speak. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Trying hard to not be piqued</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">By an ineptitude </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">That lies within the DNA</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">(or am I justifying being lazy).</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Anyway, I’m way behind in keeping up.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">In sending through my things to do,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Like all the books I’ve left to publish,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Then when published, to divulge. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Indulge me:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Am I doomed to be unknown/ anon </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Until the kids of kids of kids have grown? </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Was it some centuries before Johan Sebastian Bach prevailed?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">What’s-his long-forgotten name unveiled? </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Lost for ages Raphael (or some same fellow)…</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">You know what I mean.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">And all because I never worked </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">To learn this darned Machine!</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">*
You’ll never believe it, but this sieve of a brain who tried for hours
to recall ‘what’s-his-name’, abandoning it entirely, suddenly came up
with, first, “Centuries of Meditations” then minutes later Traherne,
then minutes more Thomas. My God, this has never happened before! That
some figure I’d not referred to, given a thought to or even read since
university days, should 65 years later suddenly explode with it. I’m
in shock! I have some re-writing to do, for sure. If not here, elsewhere. But first I ought to do a little reading.</span></span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-25810360589275540912020-07-25T14:29:00.003-07:002020-07-25T14:29:40.899-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">A Reader Commented</span></span></span><br />
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class=""> “it can get repetitious</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">When you write about the brain.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The same refrain again, again.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">I answered: </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">“Variations on a theme, that’s all it is.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Not repetitious, but delicious."</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">With so many things that need attention.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Variations in an endless fund,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The emphasis on fun and essence…</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">But just now I am in body mode,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Brain unfolding</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Undercurrents sensed and flowing</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">In a stream of consciousness</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">That feel almost blessed</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Because I don’t know where they're coming from, </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Not really.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">What I do know is, there is a train:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Ideas starting in the brain</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">And through the hand,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Their end a piece of paper,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">As if life was cutting some sweet caper,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">In the art of understanding.</span></span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-86941423018569048952020-07-25T14:28:00.001-07:002020-07-25T14:28:38.997-07:00Arlene Corwin writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Circling Round Experience </span></span></span><br />
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">What a charming happenstance!</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Happy chance!</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Twenty eighteen, book eighteen.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Twenty twenty, book still sketchy</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">But there’s poetry a-plenty…</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Wondrous!. In the several hundreds!</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Now to get this out,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">To clout the living world with it.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">I’ve been crowing like a maniac, a lunatic;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Known in better circles as enthusiastic:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Crazy about poetry - a devotee</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Or let us say, creating it.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The whole year long, as good as daily:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Unpretentious, chatty, gayly, </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Full of idiom and slang,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Language common, language spoken,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Token jargon,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Arlene Corwin’s origin.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Yet like Dante Alighieri,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Layered: yin and yang,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Detached, intense and prescient</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Simple, perspicacious, riotous </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Funny and absurd;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">At times, confessionally worried.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 8px;">
<span class="" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class="" /></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">All year long, I’ve pierced balloons </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">In order to expel delusions,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Illusions duping us.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Thus,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Book eighteen </span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Circles around everything;</span></span></span></div>
<div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Experience that’s One at bottom. </span></span></span></div>
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DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-63946192698449141182020-07-25T14:16:00.000-07:002020-07-25T14:16:00.679-07:00John Zedolik writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Relative Convenience </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">We have not been reduced </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to harvesting spent lemon disks</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and fatty skins of cooked </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and consumed trout, </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">so let us be happy in our level </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of consumption and not worry </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">about the occasional lack </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of perfect choice in our sustenance.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Any fish or fruit will do </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">in this particular pinch </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">any rind or remains signals crisis </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">—for now let’s just call our life a cinch.</span></div>
DuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-1568231082507170792020-07-25T14:14:00.003-07:002020-07-25T14:14:33.702-07:00John Zedolik writes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Private Service </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyone could be back here </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">on the dubious trail beside </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">the tracks and under the blind </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">grip of clasping branches </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that yield a private cathedral </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of considerable length to any</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">worshipping in these bottom </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">lands in their own schismatic </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">way, river and rail gods girding </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the trace, but, one hopes, not </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">answering shady prayers for plunder, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">pain to travelers, or blood, a stray-lamb </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">sacrifice to private demons <i>sans merci </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">in this tenebrous track leading </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to scarred concrete and links </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">barring entrance to the mill’s hulking </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">bones where hellish fires once </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">threatened without respite even </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the hardened worker, now dead, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">or safer than the one on the mud-ruts </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and crab grass during a Sunday morning </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">under discarded leaves and shadows, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">accompanied by only industry’s ghosts, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">benign, unlike some current walkers, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">encased in calloused flesh, waiting with steel.</span></div>
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