Momentarily
Red among the green, /
the cardinal grips a limb — /
momentarily.
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Looking
Looking into space /
Searching for an answer. /
Can this human race /
Get beyond this cancer? /
Or is it “me in first place, /
Always and like a prancer”? /
Will this selfish attitude erase /
The noble side of the stance here? /
Will some alien race /
One day find we did not care? /
That it is only about OUR space /
With no desire to share? /
I watch this selfish prancing /
And try only to observe. /
This deep and destructive dancing /
Could be the end of the human herd. /
If someday out in space /
Mankind should be among the stars /
It will be because this race /
First escaped its niggardly bars. /
The world will only see us nobly /
If at first we are. /
Then we can go forth boldly /
And reach beyond the stars.
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Sweet pea
The iris have peaked, /
the day lilies yet to bloom, /
the sweet pea shines.
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Thunderhead
Thunderhead in the sky /
I watch you blithely float by. /
Why no rain? Say why.
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Listened
We sat and listened. /
When does breeze become wind? /
Leaves and chimes opined.
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Desires
Through its own desires, /
the Virginia Spiderwort /
returns and blooms.
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Ripe
Reach for your today. /
Blueberry is ripe when ripe. /
Celebrate it now.
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A British sentry cuts a lonely picture as he stands at his post at sunrise in France, March 1915.
Battlefield
Battlefield sentry, /
fearing with the sunrise that /
fog and hope will lift.
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Hail Mary
The Hail Mary here /
Is neither pass nor prayer /
But hope for the creek.
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Harsh
Harsh, the sky, burns gray /
a smoldering blanket over /
over soil and sail.
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