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The Butterfly upon the Sky,
That doesn’t know its Name
And hasn’t any tax to pay
And hasn’t any Home
Is just as high as you and I,
And higher, I believe,
So soar away and never sigh
And that’s the way to grieve—
bright little pearls
sparkling white in an arc
i love your smile
Senryu
 Dec 2015 Jean Rojas
Babu kandula
somehow victory is a grape wine

which I always strive to get it ...

how much I try my destination is changing

It's location from one place to other

finally making me a seeker instead of a

Winner
 Dec 2015 Jean Rojas
Torin
Magellan
 Dec 2015 Jean Rojas
Torin
I was told as a child
There are no places left to explore
They've all been discovered before

Well there's outer space
The ocean
And the human mind

Probably enough in those places
We've never seen before
A random comment I made to a friend I took almost verbatim and made a poem with
you assume that you radiate
power
when you walk down the halls with them
begging at your feet
but, darling, you seem to have forgotten
quantity
can never compete with
quality
 Dec 2015 Jean Rojas
LoveLy
It's true the heaviest heart writes the prettiest poetry.
711

Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds
To drink—enables Mine
Through Desert or the Wilderness
As bore it Sealed Wine—

To go elastic—Or as One
The Camel’s trait—attained—
How powerful the Stimulus
Of an Hermetic Mind—
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