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PHOENIX BIRD DOWN
Flakes of the light of dawn
fall as phoenix bird down
on busybeeing Londontown
and on the furthest downs
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FOIL
The beauty of the
cold storm
framed and foiled
inside in the warm
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EYE RAYS
Love's unquenchable
praise
pouring from
his eye rays
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MELT THEM AWAY
Melt away the
bellicose'
bombs and guns
and mortar fires
.. Never again
such mortifiers
TWINS
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By birth
twins made twain
and then by marriage
made more twain
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STEALING MOTHERS' MILK
"Thou shalt not steal"
was inscribed on the
hard plastic milk crate
by the dairy's corporate
masters, who themselves
had been involved in stealing
from tens of millions of
mother cows... as their
baby boy calves like Herod's
victims had been sent
to an early slaughter.
Footnote:
notmilk.com
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DON PAPES
He hated people
to be vicious
to the stream
dwelling fishes.
He thought it
avaricious
to sell
cadavers of fishes.
He would gently speak
to those catching fishes
of the inherent rights
of all fishes.
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Footnote:
He had a cat sanctuary in
the woods for decades..
before reading John Robbins'
Diet For A New America when
he decided to become a vegetarian.
After that in those rare times when
he was not hard at work
he was frequently across
Wheatley Road at the bridge in the
national park, in a kindly manner
explaining the rights of fishes
to fishermen and occasionally
fisherwomen.
SKYSEA
Yesterday the sky
was of aqua hue
and the sea
royal navy blue.
Today the stormsky
is gray....
finally one....
with the gray bay.
Is it redundancy
to rain at sea
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HYPOXIA
Before fish asphyxiate
from hypoxia
they are frantic
with apraxia
Footnote:
hypoxia: no oxygen
apraxia: inability to perform purposeful
function with muscles
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RONNIE AND REGGIE KRAY
Ronnie and Reggie Kray
were twins coeval
but not all would
term them coevil.
THE FRUIT OF LOVE
If I plant
the seeds of hate
I can't
the fruit of love await.
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Thank you to Edna St Vincent
Millay for her poem "Blight"
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-saiom shriver-
