Photo from Wikimedia A thoughtful ghostWhose words deliverA fire to my heartAnd make it shiverOne William BlakeOnce called a TygerAlight within the night. Indeed:What immortal hand or eyeCould frame that fearful symmetry?Or at its death, throw down its spearsAnd water Earth with Heaven’s tears? A light that shines on many an eyeThrough stained glass.Darkly. “Tyger […]
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Photo from Wikimedia Pride.A pride of lions. There must be hundreds of roads up for option in most lifetimes.Who can even look them all down,Much less travel them each a mile?Sorry. Any road might be a road not taken, if it calls.It matters more the Good to be done, and Voice to be heard along
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Photo by nappy from Pexels Societies and Empires reconstruct themselvesIf not proactively, then cut like the Grand Canyon. Shogun leads to shogunTo the sun and back. Dynasty to dynastyGreat Wall to Mao to Tiananmen Square. Genghis Khan from son to sonTo Kublai Khan and gone. Hindus to untouchables to SikhsMaharajas to East India to Gandhi and Kashmir. Mohammed
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Photos by Christina Morillo and Rheyan Glenn Dela Cruz Manggob from Pexels Coursing through life (like water), I write for you.Compelled by the arms of time and gravity.Let the Earth whirl sideways, I write for you.Relentlessly catching my breath.Let Earth, moon, and passion above, I write for you.Not gold nor silver makes it so.Through the endless pull of care,
“I hate you,” my daughter said to meWhen I put her tablet away for a dayAnd swept her suddenly into my armsStrugglingAnd told her I would love her foreverEven in a fightAnd felt the tension melt awayInside my hug. Hugs and kisses, and other favorite things.A cicada held tenderly in her hand.I remember my first
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