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Dive high! Dive low!
Throwing off powdered eggshell fragments as you go
flying through the air, your smile
so broad, that cackling chuckle, your smoothing style.
You sparkle above the brilliant blue
then dip once more to start your darting turn anew.
So cute!
So smart!
Playfulness fills the heart
Brim full with a cheerful lightness
You arc like a swallow and swoon into the brightness
of your glittering foil ocean
pure happiness your motion
Nature’s gift
You uplift
A cure
So pure
Youth and age as one unite
Watching you all day and night
As you bring a joy so right
so natural, so pink and so true…….
Goodbye, my friends, we’ll miss
you.
Corona Corona Coronavirus
Why is it that you despise us?
So much so that you do cause
All of us to stay indoors

Romance is hard enough a task
To do without wearing face masks
You’ve taken from us that sheer bliss
Of leaning in and stealing a kiss.

You were pretty dire as a beer
Weak as water, insincere
One sip left you wishing, “please no more!”
And what the hell was that lemon for?

This “work from home thing” is not all that
Have you seen the size of Hong Kong flats!
Sure they may be expensive as hell,
But they’re not much bigger than prison cells.

Now supermarkets are anarchy and fear
As people fight the shelves to clear
No toilet paper or liquid soap
Sanitizer (and condoms?), don’t even hope.

You’ve destroyed so many jobs of ours
The economy will bear your scars
For this year and many far beyond
Your after effects felt very long

So time out now, we’ve had enough
It’s time for us to call your bluff
We are sick of fearing when we cough
Please pack your bags and just f—- off!
Clowns
abound
around
the town,
wearing crowns,
gowns
and frowns,
as sounds
drown and
pound
up and down
the brown
mound.
Oh the renown
astounds
the nouns
of those clowns.
Sometimes I drown in the horror of darkness.
My fragile ego skewered by slight.
Engulfed by the froth of raging bitterness.
Fantasized revenge my dreadful delight.

The rage floods down pulsating my whole,
Etna’s hot larva surging from deep.
A reaping torment rips through my soul,
destructive vengeance my mind entreats.

The waves of storm buffet and clatter
tugging my roots in crumbling earth.
A thousand voices scream and chatter
terrifying thoughts, my fevered curse.

Rampant, uncontrolled it works its way through me.
Until an aperture chinks some light.
Come back reason! Come rationality!
Shame me, forgive me, put me right!
We all have moments where we just need to close the door and let the darkness work its way through and out the other side.
The baggage of life that leaves us racked
is wisdom by another name.
Its dragging weight that holds us back?
More keeps us grounded and sustained.

We are the sum of our experience
Bad or good it matters not.
Foundation stone for our resilience
Our soul it forms, our wounds it clots.

So let no pity or regret
sap our spirit or our minds.
In failure lies our own reset
towards the dreams we aim to find.
Like a tree’s tangled branches is the tale of one’s life
All gnarled, bent and twisted
weather-worn by spent strife.
Blustered by storms which test our deep roots
And pull hard at our souls in bitterest dispute.
Yet when moments of sunlight shimmer on our leaves
We stretch for the heavens and thank God for reprieve
Life
Two eyes and yet unable to see.
Two ears and  yet unable to listen.
Admitting mistakes is never easy.
Contrition is not the human condition.
To see the world as it is takes great thought,
determination,  patience and passion.
Learning through defeat in our battles fought,
etches deep knowledge in our life’s mission.
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