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ANOTHER REFRIGERATOR POEM 7/2/2022

A NOT-S0-SILLY ANTI-POETRY DITTY

In And In Between The Silence 6/21/2022

Not Alone In the Darkness (As I Once Thought I Was)

Miss Tilt-a-World@



Each One Of Them Is Accounted For (And Matters)

Like Books Full Of Stories Stacked Behind Her

Call It Grace (another Anti-poem)

Lights Out

Saudade: the feeling of wanting to be near someone who is far and distant

That No One But I Will Know (anti-poetry)

To Be In The Way

For My Brother T. J. ( 7/15/2022)

That Once Respite Cave

Dr. Frankenstein's Surprise (Re-Galvanized)

A Stranger In a Strange And Angry Land.

Crimson Lake (From 2008, flashing forward to 2022/April 19)

Words Being Yours...Until The Grave 4/23/2022

The Fire Once Within Goes Cold From Lack

Summer Storms / Electric Monsters

Your Candle Burning In the Wind

On Sunny Days , As I Pose For The Skies 3/17/2022

You Are Not What You Think 3/7/2022 11:56Pm PST

We'll Decide That For YOU

Fisherman's Woman's Lament

That Time Love Took Off Running On Its Achilles Heels....

VALENTINE--WITHOUT YOU 2/19/2022

His Bitter Chocolate Heart (refrigerator magnet poem)

THE HOOVER DAM/NEWLY RE-CONSTRUCTED 2/19/2022

Tender Love New And Quick...

I COULD BECOME SOME KIND OF LUCKY 2/19/2022

UN-THREAD THE NEEDLE (OF TIME)

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he hadn't been thinking of death
when he flew in

he'd been curious
hungry
snooping around

he hadn't planned on
being trapped
this greenish multiple-eyed
flying machine

I discovered him here
both wings bent backwards
one of them crimped
one of his legs crumpled
now lifeless
and crushed
behind the double-paned window

how many times had he tried
to break through
and then finally
been broken?

fly
you thought you were out,
and made for some grand adventures
yet
here you are
shattered from the effort to return
from whence you came

I'd like to say to you
today how
I was listening to a radio
a program on compassion

is it true when we
listen with our hearts
to creatures who are no less than us
we understand they too
have an intelligence?

are we the ones lacking
in sense
for we have mostly
only sense of ourselves

I feel odd
slightly unsettling
a twinge of recognition
here is a glance
into my own frailty

when I look at this fly
a husk
of what he was before

sorry if I bore you
my audience

but I cannot help but observe
his tenacity
and realize he shares
the same damn stupid lust for life
as me

this has made him
into something more

don't you see?

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WRITTEN DIRECTLY TO THE PAGE as the thoughts came.

2:33PM PST MAY 7TH 2018 DATE/TIME STAMPED AND COPYRIGHTED

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AND ALSO FOR THIS WRITER MELISSA A HOWELLS
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