Poems

A tear falls

One tear falls.   Trembling, it rolled across his cheek then down the bare downy shoulders of the babe Clutched close in his arms. As he passed the child back to the mother The tear slid onto her hands and she flung it away It flew And hit upon the shaggy coat of a passing […]

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He’s drunk again

He’s drunk again Bit wobbly. Eyes not quite focused On this plane of existence. 

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Missing

Missing   Where has he gone?  Where is he? Missing?   Parts of the same wind Separate the air into compartments This gust is lilac and pine That gust is hay and horse Another flurry brings a whiff of tobacco   Passing through crowds of particles that tickle our olfactory senses Everything re-mingling Recycled, replenished, renewed […]

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