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Rated: 18+ · Book · Emotional · #1926559

A new book to house this year's (and future years) NationalPoetryMonth's daily poems.

I'm writing once again this year. This book is my special event place for thirty special poems.

Here for National Poetry Month in 2018, I'm participating but life has not been kind in the last 15 months, so I'm not always in writing mode.





April 1, 2018 at 12:11pm
April 1, 2018 at 12:11pm
#931868
special doors open anywhere thoughts abide
chimney smoke perfumed with Havana tobacco

dusty double paned windows, no curtains or blinds
there is only an imaginary connection with the view

cold spring air seeps somehow across brick and mortar
barriers, wool refuses seasonal retirement

night lights dim totally as does the moon waning
or waxing away from any permanent state

you refuse to talk about love and commitment
hiding all the cliché surrounding Valentine’s day
I thought we would lose singularity, become paired
somehow, these dreams bother someone else’s sleep

in my dreams, our dead child has nightmares of transparent
caskets each bearing one of his school chums, suffering horribly

the firemen were too late, helmets and ladders
both red, bloodshot eyes, bloodshed happened anyway

we draw lines where circles are appropriate
oddly shaped pegs that fit in dull, surprising places

it would be more appropriate to live through views
of desolation, wreaked havoc from a war zone

maybe in our collective consciousness weeping willows
are the most prevalent tree, sturdy oak limbs break

sunlight, even veiled with thick unhappy clouds
always returns and brings something called balance



after life reduces our numbers
[2018.1.4..a]


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