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Category Archives: Poesie
Death On The Day of Remembrance
11 November 2015 Death shall have its dominion After all is said and done Year on year we remember more Clearly as the leaves fall Between the headstones Drifting down centuries Of endless war, as babies drown On Mediterranean shores … Continue reading
Poem in Autumn: NeverLand of Now
17 October 2015 For Frank Bowman Decline of civilization imaged in fall of fig leaves Perchance its endgame in my garden of delights The fruit too small to eat, but no biblical intent And beauty yes, in annual riot … Continue reading
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How My Garden Grows
4 June 2015, Cambridgeshire, UK Well, to start with We must rescue speaking plants From dumb nurseries Then they take charge Overmuch, methinks, maybe But follow the clues The new russet Japanese maple The pink-blue hydrangea … Continue reading
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Running As One: for Jere, Master Runner
from AT HOME IN BELL BUCKLE, Poems by Leona Elen (1996) (published in Bell Buckle, TN, USA 1996 by The Brideswell Press) Reprinted here In Memoriam to Jere Hall (d. 2015) Do you remember, brother, how we knew this … Continue reading
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Charlie
14 January 2015 Back and forth The sound of racisms exchanged Hopes and fears Mixed messages Stupidity Crossed With some eloquence Hypocrisy Dirty linen flying in the breeze Of consumerist streets Flags and signs and pens aloft Crowds and … Continue reading
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Season’s Greetings
Our Christmas e-card this year. We wish you a great holiday season and a peaceful and happy 2015! Continue reading
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In November: Death and Anniversary
In between the 24th and the 27th A death and an anniversary A mother and a marriage A letting go, a remaking In the dark time, the fog deep, The air damp, visibility down, Smell of earth and decay … Continue reading
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After Dylan Thomas, from An English Garden on Beltane Eve, 2014
Mind clusters, garden roots green and glowing Thick in my throat, memories of times forward Fernhill potent, wordstruck, clambering tendrils Eyepools of happiness, yellow eyed feral beasts We sing in our chains, claws intact As animals go extinct, … Continue reading
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V Day 2014
Yesterday Transforming Hallmark Valentine Day into Victory for Vagina Day We sang, surfed, danced and digitalized To a tricky, troubled watery, snowy, icy world, full of rolling clouds and manifest bluster, the close edge of climate change upon us Today … Continue reading
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inspiration
Inspiration In this winter of discontent Fails Even the prospect Of Yellowstone erupting Fails Only inner life Is bright With promise Trolling through news Facebook and email No news is good news Only the angels Singing … Continue reading
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