"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience" -
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Discover my provocative #indie #novels, short #story and #poetry collections on my #authors page www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
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These days...
Freedom's Kiss
tastes like enduring a
tongue kiss
from an old
rotting
decrepit
loser
reeking of
halitosis
fascism
and ugly lies
Leaves me retching
choking
on the implications
of all we've lost
and a fading future
Everything seems
hollow now
the land of once free
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I want to live in the world of
e.e. Cummings.

I want to live there because
after each #storm, that world is
puddle wonderful

and in each of these puddles
we can see the reflection of a
red balloon floating

up (down?) into a blue blue sky

Even our past heartaches
are trapped in a recycled daze
Another fresh take on dead ideas and you call
that progress

These are rerun days.
Trapped in a recycled daze
Only the names and faces change

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This is the state of our disunion
A notice of dissolution.
Failures of communication

Embracing fantasies and easy lies
instead of hard solutions
until it’s too late to heal all the
heartbreak.

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Complaining about the cost of eggs and gas…
A bitter memory as they deport your family and send you to concentration camp
ignorance won’t save you
in the face of fascism
as you clung so desperately to your racism
They said it couldn’t happen here
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They said it couldn’t happen here
now your future is a boot heel on your neck
choking off your dreams of freedom
they don’t keep their fascist dreams hidden, kid
making excuses for missing fascists in plain sight
smiling behind blue suits and lies as they steal your rights
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I Don’t Think I’ll Forget You

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Complaining about the cost of eggs and gas…
A bitter memory as they deport your family and send you to concentration camp
ignorance won’t save you
in the face of fascism
as you clung so desperately to your racism
They said it couldn’t happen here
#poems #booksky #poets #fascism

They said it couldn’t happen here
now your future is a boot heel on your neck
choking off your dreams of freedom
they don’t keep their fascist dreams hidden, kid
making excuses for missing fascists in plain sight
smiling behind blue suits and lies as they steal your rights
#poems #poets #booksky

With furious action
we stave off what we fear the most
realizing what we’ve truly lost
Living in a world turned upside down
nothing is as it seems
we are wearing masks behind our masks.
Even our dreams are twisted

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My frank case against the #Trump presidency in 10 parts...#TheTrumpYears is a #poetic howl about living under the daily nightmare of the first #Trump administration
It’s very relevant for the horror we are living through today...
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“But it was still summer. I didn't want to sleep. I never wanted to sleep these days. Then I didn't want to wake up. I didn't want the leaves turning, the nights turning dark early.” ~ Louise Glück #poets #writesky

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I was pleased to participate in the Milford Readers and Writers Festival - an event on publishing poetry and short form creative writing- and thrilled with New Yorker Cartoonist Bob Eckstein’s rendition of the event!

new poems up on substack. feed your soul. link in comments. #thesundaydispatch #poetrycommunity #poems #poets #poetry #poetrynetwork #poetsofinstagram
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