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134 · Oct 2021
The Awakening
Kevin J Taylor Oct 2021
The comfort of dawn
The cupped breast
The shifts and yawns
Of ***** and breaths
The murmurs of greeting
The rise of cause
The finding of voices
The hopeful pause
The reach that eases
Wool from night
The press, the turn, the tease
Each will ignites
The give and stretch of afterwards
The glow
The easy wash of laughter
     Once—
     Again—    
Hello
96 · Feb 2021
Penny
Kevin J Taylor Feb 2021
Just as old souls wear new bodies
For loves both young, or old and grand
.
Penny, I have worn this body
And your ring has worn my hand
.
And as our love wears out these bodies
After we've grown old some day, and grand
.
I will return for you, my love,
For you, your love, your hand
.
76 · 1d
Placard
We do not beg for peace —
The War-Men have no peace to give.
    Peace is yours, mine, ours.
        Peace is ready now.

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27 · 1d
Speak up
Do not the mothers and the fathers of Gaza love their daughters,
love their sons, love the children as ye love?

Do not the mothers and the fathers of Israel love their daughters,
love their sons, love the children as ye love?

Do not the mothers and the fathers of Russia love their daughters,
love their sons, love the children as ye love?

Do not the mothers and the fathers of Ukraine love their daughters,
love their sons, love the children as ye love?

Do not all children love their mothers, love their fathers, love their sisters,
love their brothers, love their homes if they still have them—

Love them all as ye have loved?

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God bless America and all for that she stands.

God bless and guide America—

Her hearts and minds and hands.

And God bless us, Americans,

United in and by our faiths

That with God’s help,

God’s faith in us,

America be saved.

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poetkevinjtaylor
19 · 1d
Wishness
Today, somewhere, there are people who are
and now wish they were not who they had once wished to be.

To them, I say, sweep the old away and wish again.

Others may say that a simple wish is not enough  
but I'd point out that without that single simple wish
nothing follows. There has always been a wish.

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poetkevinjtaylor

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