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All Deserving
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ All Deserving ~~~~~ Whether you think you lost or won No matter what your views may be On the president now, the last one Or, indeed, on the other forty-three The time has come to make a stand For all of us, […]
A Wink and a Sayer
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ A Wink and a Sayer ~~~~~ Sometimes I write poetry When I’m lying fast asleep It doesn’t seem fair to me These words I cannot keep Yet, since I don’t remember May not be good as I think Dream mind is more […]
To Do
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ To Do ~~~~~ I have written words of late And more than just a few Muse of verse made no date What’s a simple poet to do? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See […]
Beating
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Beating ~~~~~ Hear the sound Of my lips moving Silent screams resound Reproving, Behooving Unseeing ears No one hears Traveling eyes Telling lies Hear the sound Of your eyes blinking Your head crowned My hope shrinking Unthinking Jack-booted feet Fill the street […]
Arrival Time Undisclosed
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Arrival Time Undisclosed Wandering into my neighborhood at night Wondering what water in gutters gurgles, What it chuckles down drains, in a deluge But my face turns to eye distant dwellings Their lights seen from atop a hill I climbed Spellbinding, sweet […]
May Be Far
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ May Be Far ~~ To see the world of others As the have seen themselves Whether in a past or future Across the ocean in other lands Across the sea of vasty space Greeted by an unknown people A tribe that we […]
Stringing Us Along
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Stringing Us Along ~~ So agile, fast and supple Boy and master play guitar Strumming the world Into being, new life Strokes drawn from a pallet Mimicked by the sound box How far we have come How distant it seems Our goal, […]
Never Alone
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Never Alone ~~ In vast crowds Humanity Footsteps, high-pitched, Staccato constancy Remind me Of bird chicks, Insistent, helpless Without nourishment Fickle succor — there, gone Inconsistent, snatched away Driven, in danger Unexpected abandonment Vagaries of nature Meaning all of us All the […]
Theater of or Life
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Theater of or Life ~~ Whether we’re standing or sitting, Murphy says we will be in the way It is simply a question of fitting As we find our seats for the play ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is […]
Proximity
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Proximity ~~ Stillness in the deeps Spaces between Shall we find Music, light Darkness pervasive Hope, mourning Night, morning Spiraling, spinning Comets singing, Each to each Like whale song Which we recognize But cannot comprehend So far, so fast Indescribable, unimaginable Boon […]
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