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My Craft Ale in this Pub
With water, malt, and yeast, and hops I dare / to craft an odd new ale with full due care / I've aged in hickory and old oak jugs,
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Jan 28, 2021
The clay *** on the shelf that one day fell
The clay *** on the shelf that one day fell, / And broke to shards and splinters of itself, / Bemoaned its fate, bewailed its shards to tell
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Dec 1, 2020
Inquire not of me, nor of my life!
Inquire not of me, nor of my life! / All knowledge, by instruction, is withheld. / Our blood line cut, your kin no more my wife,
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Dec 1, 2020
My Moon
I travel nightly to and fro on windswept sandy dunes, / and watch the far side of the moon, for it won't face me here. / I hear the Mourning Dove start sighing meloncholy tunes
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Jul 13, 2020
Is a Foetus Not Human?
The seed is in the fruit, indeed, / the fruit is in the seed. / For what is it that grows from it,
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Jul 11, 2020
Corona's Lesson
One's lofty dreams, ambitious goals, what not; / One's self-esteem, self-worth, self-praise and such: / Delusions of a stumbling drunken sot!
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Apr 7, 2020
Love in the Time of Corona
An unseen force has plagued the Earth at last, / And shuttered man, and cleared his busy streets, / Unlike those unseen forces of the past,
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Apr 3, 2020
All who have come into our lives and left
All who have come into our lives and left, / have taken us with them and we of them. / Though these are parts of which we are bereft,
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Dec 8, 2019
her ***** turned an arid grave
her ***** turned an arid grave / when she removed her heart / into her lover's hand to save
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Dec 3, 2019
Whither thou goest, hither or thither?
Whither thou goest, hither or thither? / Goest thou thither or nay? / Thou claimest thou goest far thither most farthest,
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Dec 3, 2019
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