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Morning Light
Now the Spring has returned to my life / I feel the earth begin to grow. / Soft and green the trees are leaning down
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May 19, 2021
The Covid Pilgrimage
SANTIAGO / The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding / then revealing the way you should take,
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Jan 27, 2021
Ceremonies of the Horsemen
Sitting here in Limbo, Waiting for the dice to roll / Sitting here in Limbo…… / 2020 seemed like another insane, poorly written reality show
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Jun 17, 2020
Night of the Darkmoon
On the night of the Darkmoon / High summer, stars like jewel fire in the skies / Cygnus spreading her wings over all
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Aug 6, 2019
A Vision Waiting
A Vision Waiting—1972-2018 key of C / I dreamed I was a Navajo / Riding on the plains
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Apr 24, 2018
Trump Enters, Leonard departs: A Memorial of Sorts
You want it darker / We **** the flame (L. Cohen) / For Leonard
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Dec 2, 2016
Pilgrims
By the rivers dark, / Where it all goes on / By the rivers dark
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Nov 27, 2015
The Mother of the Forest
Clothed in its blanket of birds / Great arms reaching impossibly high / Her leaves filtering the light between shadows
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May 22, 2015
Raven Dreams
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, / And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor…. / Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
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Jan 27, 2015
The Road to Qadisiyyah
*At Qadisiyyah, Khalid, the great Islamic leader, defeated the Sassanids or Persians in 636 AD leading to the conquest of Persia by Islam* Recently there was a battle between ISIS and the Iraqis in the same place. / Firing the Kord 12.7 heavy machine gun / In the back of the Toyota was powerful
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Sep 19, 2014
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