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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 27, 2018 at 3:55am
April 27, 2018 at 3:55am
#933505
their language is onomatopoeias
they are wind whisperers
all but one still listen

they embrace mountains
with boldness stronger than cement
their lessons maintain timelessness

their steadfast presence grounds
rivers and protects fertile plains
their summits reach towards prayer

man, complex and self-important
didn't try to listen or admire
or question their greater necessity
instead, his quest for comfort
ripped away bark, wood and pulp
man never looked at their peace
and like infertile mulch, he forgot their wisdom
after he weakened their numbers he forgot
to replant their strongholds, they became
ornaments, lost, no longer pillars for life

trees, unlike dreams veering to nightmare
cannot defend themselves and slowly lose
their godship to the animal kingdom

they continue to guard earth's ancestral soul
its pulse mutating like the cooling of lava
that will break only man's lifeline



their falling majesty
[2018.27.4...a]


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