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bulletcookie Feb 2023
No, the sun radiates
this moon bathed in light
down to despair’s depths
life survives in city’s rubble
myriad hands digging hope
hearing cries for one more day
powdered wigs, faces, clothes
dry weeping in shadows
separated by earth’s broken back
sculpting a landscape of destruction
with miles of piled masonry
under a magnifying lens of tears
hearts and minds, bulwark
against each darkness found
a swarm of humanity tunnels
saving one more precious being
gently carried into distressed search lights
and the arms of a caring world

-cec
Turkey/Syria
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clay, stone, within depths
waits water, central being
seasons drink as one

-cec
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Andromeda --
parsecs of wandering gas clouds
******* infinity while giving birth to stars

Are galaxies conscious beings?

this other-verse would, yes, approve;
of this dust mote seen by giant’s eye,
all mighty light and gravitational darkness

spirals


-cec
bulletcookie Feb 2023
the fog of war obscures the clouds
fire rains down from the sky above
headless poet recites haiku

everyone Atlas
burdens seeping from their womb
winter’s frozen mud

-cec
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you come to this confessional
mouth full of contrition
sorry for him, sorry for her
longing for them
streaming your line of poetics
stringing syllables, a rosary

a lost sol in the ink of space
wanting somehow to replace
that feeling of having transgressed
bonds, promises, fingers crossed
now, typing out a stone ledger
atop the remains of the day

-cec
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glass winds chime, small birds
mandolin, violin play
anticipate spring

-cec
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Donny Clump took a dump in Okefenokee swamp
young possum and turtles had to hold up their nose
for descent of the “phew”, was allowed by broke pumps

many steered clear of the few, chewing their cut
as the congress-mum says, “Don’t be caught indisposed”
with the slime off the feet of those stirring up mud

this swamp, as all wetlands, was pristine, toy green,
beware of the snakes, vultures and all poison toads;
while a fat pachyderm is proceeding up stream

now the waters all tested by once EPA
here polluted and rancid by one parties’ sway
to bring final solution to democracy’s flow

-cec
A knock-kneed tribute to "The Jack Acid Society" -POGO
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