I have experienced exactly: I have experienced exactly that, decades ago, but never had the guts to express it as you have done here, in a most beautiful and poignant expression.
It Has Been A Good Run: .
From where I began, through all in between, I celebrate this arrival here. A good place--to inhale, exhale and go for a walk!
:D
Laughter: and truth. At least on PP no censorship. Interestingly, this write in bias raised my mood. I celebrate reworking cliched ohrases. Thanks.
~A~
I Cried--Sobbed: .
Yesterday, thinking about ten dead in buffalo, I cried. I had not cried like that in a month. 18 year old. Each of those lives he killed was me.
The imagery is very: The imagery is very powerful. The poem suggests a backstory or background, and only a very good Poet, like you, can achieve that kind of effect in six lines.
Breaths Of Reality: .
Borders sing of invitations
made of barbed wire
and ancient locks
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Kittens mewl at dawn
whenever boots fall
a treaty of opposites speak.
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Old fossils dove dream
the skies are on fire
no one listens to creaking earth
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Another mango limb falls
the leaves know their value
no hands were severed
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Lady A
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