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  Jun 2024 CJ Sutherland
Grace
rain falls, sinks into my skin slowly,
pacing down the path with you on the other line.

we talk for too long, but it flows a little seamlessly,
like a new bend in a stream

and we end on a fine note,
a prelude for the next conversation.
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Live
Out.          loud
love,                  Deeply
  laugh                   often
       Die    quietly

Where.       is
the                     Soul
of                               life?
What.                                is
Our                               purpose?
Was.                              Life
Really.                          Created
By           Accident?

Big         Bang
Fact             Fiction
We                     have
a                          purpose
The                          G­oal
Is                                to
find.                      ­Reason
The.                    Quest
Search.          for
   answers
3-10-24
We are not put on this life for pleasure. Everybody has a purpose we just have to find what it is that’s our goal.
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Clandestine lovers
Hiding in plain sight days nights
Throughout their lifetime





There are times in life when it’s just not possible to bridge the two worlds together. Always in love from afar
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge clandestine
Something done in private or secret
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Hate the other side
Polemic left, right divide
Yet they claim with pride

Hate the other side
Together common causes
Survival tactics

Hate the other side
There is safety in numbers
Evil flow riptide

Hare the other side
Destroy enemy all costs
Unity is lost

Hate the other side
Deception rules the day
Each issue two sides

BLT Webster’s Word of the Day
Polemic 6-23-24 strong, written, or spoken attack against somebody else’s opinion, belief or practice.
RENKU A collaborative form by multiple poets, working together to create a single poem with a 5–7–5 syllables Haiku
Each haiku is ment to be in response to the previous haiku
This poem purposely does not take a side. Whatever side you’re on, they’ll be another side.
There are two sides to a coin.
For me to understand the entire problem, I must be able to equally see both sides.
As an instructor of ethnics ;students had to pick a side and defend their opinion. After they perfected that opinion,
I pulled the rug
each student had to  switch sides and defend the other side. Equally with the same enthusiasm. Only then can we see the fallacies in both sides. I don’t believe in all or nothing statements, the far right. The far left;
People live in the shades of gray between the two polar extremes. The only time there is no solution is when people stop talking
I don’t think I’m always right
By the same token . I’m not always wrong.
But i sure learned a lot along the way.
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Obey the leader
Benevolent dictator,
Rampage corruption
6-20-24
Senryu
Is similar in format to a haiku, but the focus on human nature and social situation’s rather than nature, seasons, like haiku SENRYU, consist of three, lines 5 – 7–5 syllable pattern but it’s more concentrated on human complexity of human emotions, and human behaviors
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