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- Our future for a dollar and our nature for a holler.
- Just step in time and fall in line, bow to the tarry hauler.
- Steal it from the blue, paint it shiny, red, and new.
- Protect the sea, but build line three, and twin the mountain queue.
- Jumped on the wave inspired, but that voting plan backfired
- Forget the trees, hug pipes now, please, and light your drinks on fire
- Banners in the air, orange pom poms shake with flair.
- No one’s keen for fallen green, and stand up no one dares.
- I watched one day two scenes unfold before my very eyes,
- Contrasting views of the same dream—one truth, one soothing lies.
- The first saw hordes of people stroll along a narrow path.
- Within their cliques, they held the rail, engaged in lovely chat.
- They reached the end and ate some fruit, and licked their lips right clean.
- Their bottled hair, their plastic lips, all effort left unseen.
- The other showed a harsher view that one would never choose,
- For it was dark, and tough, and hard, with scar, and sprain, and bruise.
- There was no garden stroll this time, replaced by mountain crag.
- Each step unsound, each grasp unsure, so many slips and snags.
- Each climber clung fast to the rail, afraid of death below,
- And pulled with all exhausted might—the journey wrought and slow.
- With sweated brow, and knuckles raw, and shoulders drooped in pain,
- The climber inches forward more and up each day again.
- The burdened sigh, the trickling tear, the hopeful glance above.
- The couraged step, the trembled voice, the awkward embraced love.
- The desperate heart, the longing soul, the lingering desire.
- The tightened chest, the grieving breast, the eager want for higher.
- The drooping frown, the trying smile, the piercing hunger pangs.
- The drowning self, the tired feet, the mem’ries of hymns sang.
- Th’unsteady hand, the unsure stand, the anxious cluttered mind.
- The wearied yoke, the wroughted core; a prayer in these I find.
- I once looked up from where I sat and saw my shelf seemed odd.
- I cocked me head and looked perplexed, quite sure somehow it’s flawed.
- I stood, stepped close, inspected it, noticed the smallest crack.
- Got my duct tape, tore off a piece, and fixed it like a hack.
- I went to sail the ocean blue upon the zion ship.
- I packed my bags and bought my pass, excited for the trip.
- The gangplank down, about to board, I noticed rust astern.
- I got some paint, and patched it up, and settled all concern.
- Hiding in plain sunlight while sifting through the sky,
- Looking for the rainbows as heaven has a cry.
- Snagging them with morals, ignoring all the pain;
- Pushing them through prisms to make them white again.
- There’s no coloured sunshine; we’re all offspring of God.
- Hospital for sinners, but you’re the one who’s flawed.
- Wash your clothes of crimson with mission and a ring
- Frying eggs while naked and pick a hymn to sing.
- Casting out your children and use them as a goat;
- It’s because we love them we overlook our mote.
- Prayer and scripture study will wash away your sins
- Off your flags and banners and shiny rainbow pins.
- We crawled out of a golden book and spread across the land
- And whispered from the dust, they said, secured by angels’s hand.
- Were sent to a choice hemisphere, yet from God’s presence banned.
- We prospered, fruitful, multiplied, as if like grains of sand.
- And then they came to us in pairs to tell us we were lost.
- They took our culture, stripped it bare, and nailed it to a cross.
- Straightened our souls, split them in two; the rest they burned as dross.
- Clothed us in white, arm to the square, into the water tossed.
- But we weren’t fast enough for them to leave our savage ways;
- They scooped our children from our homes, so they instead could raise,
- To fold their arms, and break their bread, baptize them with a blaze,
- And bleach their skin to make them fair—delightsome was the phrase.
- Let freedom ring, liberty sing,
- Democracy to nations bring.
- Your child’s soul and your black gold
- From jawbreaker to Aleppo.
- We’ll take your coat so you can vote,
- Replace your home with rubber boat.
- Sending our pawns at crack of dawn
- Quarter million forever gone.
- When we’re done, well shoot our guns
- Buy plastic flow’rs and pin them on.
- Ignore the legless and the breathless.
- November glorify the deadness.
- Where will you go? I do not know.
- Where rivers flow or breezes blow
- Where flies the crow or sunsets glow
- Search high and low, look to and fro
- My garden hoe, My front yard mow
- Drink cups of joe, and sweet cocoa.
- Eat lots of pho, and risotto,
- And sweet gateaux, and cookie dough,
- Pistachios, and sloppy joes.
- Pay debts I owe, crush status quo
- A blanket sew, make forts of snow
- Go watch a show, a baseball throw
- Get painted toes and toss yo-yos
- Dive deep below and bang bongos
- Wear cheap chapeaux, stay in chateaux
- Eat sweet cocoa, invent gizmos
- Take up judo or tae kwon do.
- Shoot a crossbow, chase tornadoes
- Run in meadows or write memos
- Ride the Metro, visit Moscow
- Buy a Pinto, follow rainbows
- Sort my photos, help the rhinos
- Embrace shadows, climb up willows
- Read some Thoreau, master tiptoe
- Replace my “oh…’ with lots of “woah!”
- Watch puppet shows from long ago.
- Grow potatoes and tomatoes
- Just take it slow. That’s where I’ll go.
- Extinguished fire, now cold and dark, that blazed once bright and sure,
- That warmed my self, my heart, my soul and made my spirit pure,
- I watched you die as rain poured down and choked your fighting flames.
- I frantically worked day and night to save you; ’twas in vain.
- I tried to feed you splintered wood from off my broken shelf,
- But you returned just smoke to me—no heat, no light, no health.
- I sat there staring at the ash for days and weeks and months,
- Waiting, hoping, wishing, too, that flames to me would come.
- But nothing came. ’Twas all in vain. My efforts fruitless now.
- I needed faith, and courage, too, to stand and leave somehow.
- And so I planted feet down firm, clung to the frigid hearth,
- Stood up, breathed deep, hung down my head, and stepped with heavy heart.
- But then, just then, something had gleamed deep in the snowy ash:
- An ember, lone and minuscule, beckoned to me, “Come back”.
- A spark exists! A hope of flame, something there inside,
- But still no fuel, and rain still falls. All I can do is sigh.
- Ruby red, no, scarlet red, the blood stains on their hands.
- Innocence delayed ten years, now teach them how to dance
- Orange like the glowing coals of fire dying out;
- Bellows, worn and tired now, have fin’lly shut their spout.
- Yellow sun has dimmed its light, its service drawn to close
- Tried so hard to shine so bright, but succumbed to the blows
- Trees so green have withered dry, poor shelter from the rain;
- Stinging drops come pelting down, unleashing bruise and pain.
- Bluest skies are just a trick, a clever sleight of hand.
- We think it’s true, but when in space, it’s then we understand.
- Purple robes and aprons tell us, “All of it is love.
- Come to us from down the street, descended like a dove.”
- Rainbows come after the storms, or so I’ve heard them say,
- But first, I guess, we have to wait for storms to go away.After the Storm