tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275414402024-03-12T16:16:00.667-07:00Strawberry Sneezes & Skeleton Scootsbonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-89344279473415846672022-01-29T20:55:00.002-08:002022-01-31T06:46:27.686-08:00Education: A Ghost Town Waiting for Citizens to Rise UpMy head rattles a lot with words of things I want to say or need to get out but don’t. I do that more and more. It is my insides that churn up what I think I think until I can think no more but it goes nowhere. Maybe that is why when people ask me if I like my new job I say, “I don’t know."
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When I ask my students what I think should be thought provoking questions or things they might have a passionate opinion about, I often get, “I don’t know.” And I cringe inside. I often say to them, “Make it up! Practice having an opinion because people will want to know what you think your entire life.” In my quietest moments I think, “Does what I think matters if it is not the popular opinion?” or “Will what I think change anything or help anyone?” And on and on it all rattles around hitting with sharp edges on my insides where I feel pricked with a thousand cuts bringing me to a slow death.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0ixANbloUaeYfBJ55imVlRXEO0zsLiRKhXgwUgXz41oYFUq5vejp0qwQWJHeRNQn_vLdrJCWluUqFpYlOOxd4TYwdihgRcRvnfFFgqC_0D2RnS0gE-7XY_kBUBBlWXJ9K9oNoIdZFHuo_N7ZNyZchBwm5D6I58VmwGb5fRnwkVAmnHLCe1w=s3192" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3192" data-original-width="2098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0ixANbloUaeYfBJ55imVlRXEO0zsLiRKhXgwUgXz41oYFUq5vejp0qwQWJHeRNQn_vLdrJCWluUqFpYlOOxd4TYwdihgRcRvnfFFgqC_0D2RnS0gE-7XY_kBUBBlWXJ9K9oNoIdZFHuo_N7ZNyZchBwm5D6I58VmwGb5fRnwkVAmnHLCe1w=s320"/></a></div>
The tumbleweeds of hope that stop the maelstrom of rattling raging rocks blow in and break that rage down into dust. I think, “I have a story that means something that can inspire or help those that need more to latch onto right now.” I often think this outside my classroom and then I stand in front of my students and the tumbleweed blows on by momentarily delayed by the rocks in the road but then it is gone. I am stuck between those rocks and a very hard place called school.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimoI9gADsj35RThpKuLQikYcIPVgnj6_FvcSyvVFCf3eW975xcqSLRb-8kmK6YgU367dBcS8jMfe6BtkOdlDfjIGoNO2i4i80cLzNHGPKXlg5r8ynSNrEKWSeXVTf2RFj6g-TBawhJbUCVJLk-yuuApPKOGZFkzDCL5GpHvC7Udox1uPHXxw=s480" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimoI9gADsj35RThpKuLQikYcIPVgnj6_FvcSyvVFCf3eW975xcqSLRb-8kmK6YgU367dBcS8jMfe6BtkOdlDfjIGoNO2i4i80cLzNHGPKXlg5r8ynSNrEKWSeXVTf2RFj6g-TBawhJbUCVJLk-yuuApPKOGZFkzDCL5GpHvC7Udox1uPHXxw=s320"/></a></div>
Who is being educated this year? Me as a new teacher or my students? I would hope both. I long for both to be true and thriving. Then I read that because of the pandemic and time we are in those students aren’t being educated or are stuck or can’t progress or have done nothing but regressed. I hear and feel how hard it is for the teachers. I see the behaviors that seem to not make sense to me of why things are happening amongst the high school population that I have been with now for four years. I saw these students as freshman, which was the last whole year where they were uninterrupted, and yet education has continued in some fashion or another.
Education is still happening and did happen virtually, maybe not perfect, but teachers were teaching. Not everyone had perfect connections or Wi-Fi and so yes, not all things were equal, but where are we now? We have been back in the classes some for a year and a half and some for less time, but we have been there.
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As teachers, at least in special ed, we keep being told to slow down, don’t give them much work, keep it light, be super patient, and just be happy when they are in the classroom. I do agree those qualities help special ed teachers even during the best of times. Yet, when I do that, I am told I am doing still too much.
I give one maybe two assignments a week. Those assignments take ten minutes of teaching time to teach and then it should even with the weaker students only take ten or fifteen minutes to do. Our periods are fifty minutes five days a week. I have usually one longer assignment that I’m giving them a month or six weeks to accomplish that they can work on in class also. I’ve had to extend those assignments for two to three more weeks and students still are not getting those assignments in at all. I have students come constantly late to class or skip class altogether. I have students that sit and talk to friends or on their cell phones for entire class periods when I’ve given it over for them to get their work done and use me as a resource to help. I gave the whole last two weeks of the quarter over for them to work and I still did not get students that turned in anything during that time. So, how am I not giving them enough time or I should slow down more?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrqw8FYS_Aj9V3hs95Uy_dxonWpaBWV8z0lY0oppaEa9HyweOj21b91sJyEa_KZdeICLqEj6dtQ3KUoiXH1YDO8iLtebl5QEh4tx088c4WW1RHPdNChGAPukh-JCuX24VghKODO4xWX89dwr0FmpTFwzjlqZxmzM2KKSo4PFt3Sq86OVfb6A=s2000" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrqw8FYS_Aj9V3hs95Uy_dxonWpaBWV8z0lY0oppaEa9HyweOj21b91sJyEa_KZdeICLqEj6dtQ3KUoiXH1YDO8iLtebl5QEh4tx088c4WW1RHPdNChGAPukh-JCuX24VghKODO4xWX89dwr0FmpTFwzjlqZxmzM2KKSo4PFt3Sq86OVfb6A=s320"/></a></div>
I talk to them about creating better habits and using their time in class that to work on the small assignments and they scoff at me openly. I check on them and ask if I can help them and give them choices and they make none, do not accept or ask for help, and they resent me checking-in. I cut down the bigger assignments begging for them to just turn in what they have done. I walk the ones that are habitually late through what we are working on and give them a one on one lesson just to find out they can’t hear me because under that hood they have their ear buds in and have not heard much of anything I’ve said and don’t want me to repeat it all just tell them what to do or to write or to say and want to make no decisions about it. They look at me blankly and ask, “How do I get all the points?” It isn’t about what it is or the content as that is barely registering in their question. I continue on trying to get through with the material and they look back at me with dead eyes as it clearly doesn’t matter to them at all. I was told by a teacher this fall that it didn’t matter what I taught as nothing we teach them in high school will really matter to them as an adult. This is where the raging rocks that rattle around inside me heat up and I think, “What am I doing here?”<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1ZV7EOYOW2O8zQA8HQ9jiwFPg-Y3rZJVCzLaHneRj-_ifJr0jcVJOfGgCyU0lRtDMNj4G7tYlh2xnp84fcjxwicPsugTAaDpXIcMPtsA_vAxvKE6K7LbsrLqKj73IUgkxVw8J2yXvgKwu3vnwGMSkY7SsxVLZVxbUC00I9D3QoILH8TE0sA=s3216" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: right; float: right;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2136" data-original-width="3216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1ZV7EOYOW2O8zQA8HQ9jiwFPg-Y3rZJVCzLaHneRj-_ifJr0jcVJOfGgCyU0lRtDMNj4G7tYlh2xnp84fcjxwicPsugTAaDpXIcMPtsA_vAxvKE6K7LbsrLqKj73IUgkxVw8J2yXvgKwu3vnwGMSkY7SsxVLZVxbUC00I9D3QoILH8TE0sA=s320"/></a></div>
What I learned in high school classes was important to my life and I disagree that what I teach in an English class won’t matter to them as adults. I talk to my students about how they write or comprehend stories, directions, give opinions, and if they can analyze a situation that is extremely important as it is monumental in getting through the stuff life throws at us. If we can write or articulate a thought these things matter a lot in life. They flatly argue with me that what I have to give as a teacher or school or anything they are learning in any class does not matter. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg34W6uQRx5-MIc0sKIIVV_GLmAh3_XQYyEeZYLIVKSVZkEWNj-RoorBHPghTonjA2Ijpfh9r6IyXNMxHWitotmP9Ai-vDqAtxjieGsV3f5cdK11vJXpIexxnjYGMjporkG37QWlcKbwXhj9h-9278X-aArT9IgGwASfMHXNZ7YtADfx2Pl-g=s3148" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: right; float: right;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2028" data-original-width="3148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg34W6uQRx5-MIc0sKIIVV_GLmAh3_XQYyEeZYLIVKSVZkEWNj-RoorBHPghTonjA2Ijpfh9r6IyXNMxHWitotmP9Ai-vDqAtxjieGsV3f5cdK11vJXpIexxnjYGMjporkG37QWlcKbwXhj9h-9278X-aArT9IgGwASfMHXNZ7YtADfx2Pl-g=s320"/></a></div>
I have been told that special ed students are not going to ever use these things in life and I say, no, everyone uses these tools or should know how to use them. How else does one keep growing, learning, and making good life choices if one does not learn to think through situations and opinions in school? School is good practice for the stuff of life!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2d6Vkr3eiI1qtq-0qv8kqoX1uR8Vu-Ix4_I55Nt4aZBl9hjFRMjvWu00mOEh9gxA5_Mn-h-iO63oaMP2yiyKHn-wliMjo8WYhJcmZ932VgGemOo0jZKmRWqfsndeR7DDlSlGonz1ZDeDJ0m_AmV56tf1bgdGxI_g6jIzMZEvvZNZ-Zju-Tg=s3182" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="3182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2d6Vkr3eiI1qtq-0qv8kqoX1uR8Vu-Ix4_I55Nt4aZBl9hjFRMjvWu00mOEh9gxA5_Mn-h-iO63oaMP2yiyKHn-wliMjo8WYhJcmZ932VgGemOo0jZKmRWqfsndeR7DDlSlGonz1ZDeDJ0m_AmV56tf1bgdGxI_g6jIzMZEvvZNZ-Zju-Tg=s320"/></a></div>
It is all about SEL,(social emotional learning), right now in school to make up for “lost time” it is the big ongoing conversation in the past couple of years. I purport that we as a society have lost time, somewhere along the way, in social emotional learning and I’m not just talking about the pandemic. When I stepped into being a para in 2012, I was initially shocked how schools functioned compared to how I grew up. The lower elementary grades seemed to have all the structure and discipline and the further I went up the chain, the students challenged authority constantly and listened less. This is a gross generalization as not all students were in that same bucket, but there was a vocal minority, often in special ed classes and in some gen ed that really were just coming to school but not absorbing the social norms, the material, or good habits in general. After being cussed at for years and longing for not only a more polite school environment, but one where longing to learn was the norm for students instead of fleeing from it, somehow, I still stepped into the role of a special ed teacher. I think I thought I could make a difference, but it feels like a tiny droplet in the preverbal bucket.
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When I was in school, I was not given the choice of most assignments or how to do them. I was expected to come to class on time and not leave until given permission to do so. I did not speak unless I put my hand up and was recognized by the teacher. When there was a question asked or discussion initiated, it was expected that I would join in or have an opinion ready. When there was a deadline, I met it or paid the consequences of not meeting it, but I didn’t complain about it. I did not blame the teacher even when I thought they were not the greatest teacher in their subject or seemed unfair in how they graded things I put great effort into, and they judged them unworthy. I looked at what it was and found out what I needed to do to get better at whatever it was and asked questions about it. Sometimes it was a hard swift kick to the gut, but I continued on and didn’t give up. I worked at learning, and sometimes with teachers that were not great or hadn’t found their sea legs yet, that was hard, but I did it. I knew that if I didn’t, I wouldn’t get anywhere in life and that is what motivated me.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5IRaNWRzvZH717pG6E5CE6gESbIWpBiw9uZ60Q2yXd-OQCpey1vT4PwSeyW3om2-lxd86WQUaUa0AdczHiuBjYU8tuobqtNAdb6UX-QEndeUxn22tq0cjmgFhAaqq5f4DiKUOyU_2S4QsAx1-02dcTblRvU2-N9GIvMiy0AnSBF-8EdEMrg=s3216" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: right; float: right;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3216" data-original-width="2136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5IRaNWRzvZH717pG6E5CE6gESbIWpBiw9uZ60Q2yXd-OQCpey1vT4PwSeyW3om2-lxd86WQUaUa0AdczHiuBjYU8tuobqtNAdb6UX-QEndeUxn22tq0cjmgFhAaqq5f4DiKUOyU_2S4QsAx1-02dcTblRvU2-N9GIvMiy0AnSBF-8EdEMrg=s320"/></a></div>
From doing these things I learned to do things I don’t always like to do and succeed. I found nuggets of facts, thoughts, and emotional strength from pursuing learning by choosing to engage in what I was given and not asking for something else. I was made stronger. I said please and thank you and I discovered the heart and lives of some fascinating people that taught me and sometimes I hardly knew the people that taught me, but I mined the material and words they brought to the classroom for some substance that I could build my life upon. Not everything was gold, but I sifted for the nuggets as that is what I was taught school was about.
This is how I’m instructing my child and I see he does take this to heart most of the time. In this, he is highly unusual too, but I am thankful that he digs deep to find some gold in his high school education. At home, I am constantly teaching him about social norms and emotional shifting sands.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyezQBOPnXpV76CewxMAMWTMFOlDRy_tPgpzCgGLhZX6qX9y9urIdCyLxfpLaGMxbIPbYcp1m9xlOXXmVxc4RkXu35Yv6W6j59STsu1cp0B4JJBsNrJ9TL6LR3O6qq8eO0EmnYaFnnErp_rSTwB2Hw7v0g0tdW52ulnvMPGd1rBmduAlLQVg=s3084" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: right; float: right;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3084" data-original-width="1916"
The school where I teach is a Title 1 school that is three or four times larger than the schools I attended. Many students come from not in the most stable homes and historically have struggled to know what is normal to the rest of society. I see students that cannot sift through the cacophony of life’s noise to hear the instructions given in class nor cling to any materials presented or they wrestle mightily with how figure out how to do one simple task for one class let alone six classes a day.
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In many of their classes they are daily given time in class to work on assignments and they sometimes simply stare at nothing and look vacant. With my students, I wander over and ask, “Are you okay?” They look at me and nod. Sometimes they come in sit down and fall asleep just after the bell rings. I get class started and go over and wake them to no avail as I ask them to please sit up and get started. These are the ones that sleep nearly every day in class---the whole class period and when they are awake, I ask if they are sleeping at night, if there is a problem, if they are some place safe etc.… They mostly tell me they just aren’t sleeping or sometimes they admit they were up all-night playing video games, or they don’t answer at all, but they never apologize for sleeping every day and they expect me not to disturb them and sometimes they cuss at me for disturbing their rest. By one teacher, I am told to let them sleep. In my head I reply to this, “Every day? Then why hold class?” I struggle as the rocks heat up white hot, yet I know that some students are houseless and cannot sleep anywhere else, some have terrible home lives and do not feel safe sleeping at home, but are these students those? All of them? How does one tell them apart---one in crisis and one unmotivated to be here?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6Nbfa6AvdNY0lJUin8gaKRbrKEAXW6ja_Pd0R9iUQFCK_aluX74m4zH-9j8SLseHtM7wWd3t76TBE2IqwnruhZsnnyaMmUYLMJ4FNVZdwmyQzucfh1IH25t7furOsYqtiupqS6sgHbfNbP29P3C4NuS4x84_qpF8PHWqZFSzMqX8eswHBpQ=s3108" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="3108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6Nbfa6AvdNY0lJUin8gaKRbrKEAXW6ja_Pd0R9iUQFCK_aluX74m4zH-9j8SLseHtM7wWd3t76TBE2IqwnruhZsnnyaMmUYLMJ4FNVZdwmyQzucfh1IH25t7furOsYqtiupqS6sgHbfNbP29P3C4NuS4x84_qpF8PHWqZFSzMqX8eswHBpQ=s320"/></a></div>
I looked out one day in December at my English class and four out of six students were sleeping. The two that weren’t sleeping had air pods in and were staring at their phones and did not have their Chromebooks out working. Two more students waltzed in more than half-way through the period, and I told them what we were supposed to be working on and after I left their side, they got out their phones too and ignored me until the bell rang. After they left, I let out a sigh as hot tears slid down my face as I wanted to shout about the wreckage I’d just witnessed. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-7PSu4479HuIRg2GT85HfCLFNCz6S6FJ67rAeh1IytIFfT00OgKFesLzI_TPWGS7saI23jZ-ViBhln4I_5wK-FvSebHMbzMkOkNNcgCSPUfWbRALat_URj95sUUsIs-w3s7n3jf7ntd4DJ-qIqSBL_axlW1Hij9fexyl3v5q4XDfuNYs1fQ=s3152" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: right; float: right;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3152" data-original-width="2034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-7PSu4479HuIRg2GT85HfCLFNCz6S6FJ67rAeh1IytIFfT00OgKFesLzI_TPWGS7saI23jZ-ViBhln4I_5wK-FvSebHMbzMkOkNNcgCSPUfWbRALat_URj95sUUsIs-w3s7n3jf7ntd4DJ-qIqSBL_axlW1Hij9fexyl3v5q4XDfuNYs1fQ=s320"/></a></div>
The next day I started that same period with reminding them of our pact to respect each other in how we conducted ourselves in class and asked them not to have their cells phones out and to use this time given to work on assignments due as it is a gift. I often say this in my classes as it is true, I was given no time to work in class on assignments more days than not when I was growing up and homework was the norm. They are given time in class to do the work and it is carefully calculated that they could do all the work in class if they would do it. That way there is no homework. There is if you are sleeping or super late, but otherwise not. That day a student instead took that opportunity to tell me I didn’t respect them and no they were not going to put their phones away and they could use that time for whatever they wanted. I felt powerless and impotent and angry.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNaaKqHhUwSAChwv_MPFI7K7aezoLIf99KeTosUlXwvy3SWL5XsYk4uEtxIt2EQqsWfOLNwxI9T_gUpTDS6VuFyJ5Joad6GV0VvJ3PkuEVAA_m-KPqt1frtiQxlImAMRnqg0qgV39Yrdv5iZECx80emTg3LndzrPb-gRY5FU_BZiM3-_NF_A=s3162" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3162" data-original-width="2050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNaaKqHhUwSAChwv_MPFI7K7aezoLIf99KeTosUlXwvy3SWL5XsYk4uEtxIt2EQqsWfOLNwxI9T_gUpTDS6VuFyJ5Joad6GV0VvJ3PkuEVAA_m-KPqt1frtiQxlImAMRnqg0qgV39Yrdv5iZECx80emTg3LndzrPb-gRY5FU_BZiM3-_NF_A=s320"/></a></div>
When I think about it, this is what virtual learning has been, time for them to do whatever they wanted. They could come to class or not. They could listen or be totally doing something else—cameras off and muted, and many students did not turn in work, listen to teachers, or slept through the whole thing. We had more than one student that occasionally forgot to mute their microphone and you could hear the video game they were playing while in class. Sometimes we also heard a parent yelling obscenities, or the younger sibling that they were taking care of while they were attending class or how isolated they sounded when they did speak. Whatever the reason, many were disengaged and don’t see the point to school and the virtual reality is that they gave up on learning. It breaks my heart even as I feel the pressure within me build where my thoughts loudly reverberate in a cavernous hole inside me, I shout to the heavens, “On a human level we should all be made of stronger stuff and get beyond this point!”
Here I am facing a blank slate of second semester wondering how best to make a difference and how I can wake up my senior students that sleep through class and on the surface don’t seem to care about much. Underneath, I know there is so much more to it and the spark for learning, social norms, and interest in life needs to be inspired somehow. I am excited at the possibilities but exhausted just thinking about it and I struggle to capture those fast-moving tumbleweeds of hope rattling around my western thoughts on traditional education. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4U2Px68kgry6TRkBS8iHj-kRUgID0YZfhrJAtD2V7gH4QTXlCzP2NV-npj2V0S8Wq3TGi4Cnm7YIUdvnLaOeh-r3oG6H337a2jUP9L_KpXxkeaiMhk1RkKkkei3LlxawvOCFsuQr7RIy9G_h4HLPmDK9pZGwBUfO6_fDqlKv_0XgXZfApqQ=s2333" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="2333" data-original-width="1657" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4U2Px68kgry6TRkBS8iHj-kRUgID0YZfhrJAtD2V7gH4QTXlCzP2NV-npj2V0S8Wq3TGi4Cnm7YIUdvnLaOeh-r3oG6H337a2jUP9L_KpXxkeaiMhk1RkKkkei3LlxawvOCFsuQr7RIy9G_h4HLPmDK9pZGwBUfO6_fDqlKv_0XgXZfApqQ=s320"/></a></div><b><b><b></b></b></b>
Perhaps, my thoughts should turn eastward borrowing from Tao Te Ching, the founder of Taoism, not to live in the past as that brings depression and not to live in the future as that brings anxiety, but to dwell in the present peace of now. He also says to give out of the now.
Or as my pastor ends each service with, “You go nowhere by accident…” I always think of the verse in Ephesians 6: 7-8a from The Message, “ Don’t just do what you have to do to get by, but work heartily, as Christ’s servants doing what God wants you to do. And work with a smile on your face, always keeping in mind that no matter who happens to be giving the orders, you’re really serving God.” God is the big boss in all of this and has put me here on purpose is what I believe which is what melts the rocks of rage helping them form into a useful stronger structure for the rest of this year thinking, “My students may come in late, sleep, still not give up their cell phones, but I will continue to teach, give, forgive, and hopefully inspire through compassion by whispering sparks of learning that will ignite in them today, tomorrow, or somewhere down the line as they recover or discover who they are right now.”
bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-78850206514222931132021-12-19T15:11:00.093-08:002022-01-15T15:53:37.010-08:00Salvage, a play by Tim Alderson<span style="color: #ffa400;">I wrote this essay in November after seeing the play, Salvage by first-time playwright, <iframe class="BLOG_video_class" allowfullscreen="" youtube-src-id="YZz8ktsrkr8" width="200" height="166" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YZz8ktsrkr8"></iframe> in October on a quick trip to L.A. I feel bad I am just now getting it published on the day it is to close in L.A. I hope someone sees this and contacts, Tim to do other productions as this deserves to live on and inspire others to go down that rocky road of the artistic life. Thanks to my brilliant editor, Martin Stillion, for making this into more of a review than a personal essay. It closes today, December 19th, but if you can get there by tonight, I highly recommend it! </span><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i> </i><i>
Salvage, </i>a play by Tim Alderson</h4><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Artists sometimes struggle to
proclaim that their core identities have value and are tied to what they create.
The act of self-expression entails releasing a small part of yourself in the
hope that it will not only make your life better but also change others’
lives. But at the same time, you want to protect the part of yourself that you
are releasing. On a good day, you perform a small act of self-sacrifice and
hope it will help you change or make a mark in the world, even if you cannot
put your finger on exactly what you hope to achieve.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">On your worst days as an artist,
the world comes crashing through your door. You have bills to pay and responsibilities
to fulfill, and you feel the weight of others whom you love and care for. You
know they are depending on you to stand shoulder to shoulder with them in the
grind to do whatever it takes to succeed. In my case, an old commercial would
play in my head:<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjn6wKJCV1f7Jaz82z1NEfSFldj6cCcjOcjEfIJ-k6f0AzMdu3GUF-6aFzps3hdCYTMNwfBztoeKZ6L3yjDtwPfjPZ2-tT5u03K6aycoPyUVib489ujaoHF_4tiVd8meiweKG1fw7sqqFg6IXJf5ct8m6UFF1G9WvopRDHkUYW1Wo7Djr2nKg=s374" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="295" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjn6wKJCV1f7Jaz82z1NEfSFldj6cCcjOcjEfIJ-k6f0AzMdu3GUF-6aFzps3hdCYTMNwfBztoeKZ6L3yjDtwPfjPZ2-tT5u03K6aycoPyUVib489ujaoHF_4tiVd8meiweKG1fw7sqqFg6IXJf5ct8m6UFF1G9WvopRDHkUYW1Wo7Djr2nKg=s320" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My 1st Seattle Headshot.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan <br />
And never, never, never let you forget you’re a man! <br />
’Cause I’m a woman! W. O. M. A. N.!<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Not every artist succeeds in making
art a full-time career, in part because art is incredibly undervalued in American
society. I would have been the quintessential starving artist if I weren’t
married. At times during our marriage, both my husband and I have set aside
some of our artistic ambitions because we needed to make money. For example, I recently
became a full-time schoolteacher. A colleague carelessly remarked during my
student teaching, “This is your real career,” as if she expected me to agree
that my work in theatre had no value.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">This long preamble seeks to explain
how I ended up sobbing my way through a brilliant new play, Salvage, written by
Tim Alderson and directed by Damian D. Lewis. I thought Salvage was going to be
a play about Mark Heard, one of my husband’s favorite songwriters and someone I
feel a deep kinship with through his music. Ultimately, although Mark isn’t a
character in the play, it borrows details from his life and examines themes he
often wrote about. We saw this play several weeks ago, and the details are
now not as sharp, but the emotional experience lingers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">My own experience resonates with a
quote from the play: “Having a dream is like running with scissors.” Falling
down can leave permanent scars.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Alderson has said that the idea for
this play stayed with him as a constant companion for 15 years before he wrote it
down. That’s often how art evolves or emerges. It’s always a product of the
artist’s inner life, but whereas some art emerges quickly and has to be
captured in the moment, other works are like a seed that waits to be watered
and nurtured into being.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i>Salvage</i> is set in a neighborhood
bar. The first character we meet is Preacher (David Atkinson), who enters half drunk
and clearly not happy. We get the idea that his daily routine involves drinking
and lamenting the past; he has nowhere else to go and nothing worthwhile to do.
He sits, drinks, plays his guitar, and complains to the bartender, Johnson
(Damian D. Lewis), who comes in and out, stocking the bar, throwing out
challenges to Preacher, and asking customers to pay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Harley (Sam O’Byrne), the only other
customer, wanders in because he realizes that one of his favorite songwriters
not only used to perform in the bar, but also died there. Johnson admonishes
him to buy a beer if he wants to admire the bar and gather details about the
night the singer died. Harley, who is also toting a guitar, stays and ends up
talking and wanting to jam with Preacher. Preacher roundly rejects Harley’s
interest and tells him to go away. Hence the main conflict of the play.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Beneath this simple storyline and seemingly
familiar characters is a complex, far-reaching emotional landscape, and we
catch glimpses of it through music. The first song we hear is Mark Heard’s <i>Rise
from the Ruins</i> on the jukebox. Preacher doesn’t like this song much as it
belts out:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>We will roll like an old Chevrolet<br />
The road to ruin is something to see<br />
Hang on to the wheel<br />
For the highway to hell<br />
Needs chauffeurs<br />
For the powers that be<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Go and tell all your friends and relations<br />
Go and say what ain’t easy to say<br />
Go and give them some hope<br />
That we might rock this boat<br />
And rise from the ruins one day<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Before long we learn that Harley is
on his way to the pawn shop next door to sell his most valuable possession, his
guitar, because “dreams don’t buy diapers.” First, however, he just wants to
play a song or two with Preacher, who ignores him and belts out parts <i>of I’m
So Tired of It All</i> by Hank Williams and <i>Long Gone Lonesome Blues</i> by
Johnny Cash. But these songs are more than just an exercise in self-pity,
they’re a window into what makes Preacher tick—the only such window he is
willing to open—and the lyrics begin to develop the play’s emotional themes. The
Hank Williams song paints a desolate portrait of just what the young musician
might yet regret if he gives up music to get a “real” job.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Ev’ry thing I loved, I lost, dear<br />
Too many times I’ve watched my castles fall<br />
My life is full of regretting<br />
And now I’m so tired of it all<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">The conflict is sharpened by the betrayal of friends, speculation about what is real and lasting, and struggle
with forgiveness of oneself and others—ideas that Harley and Preacher struggle
to articulate, except when they sing. Music becomes more and more a part of the
language of the play as the story breathes and grows.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">T his play,
I learned from the playwright over dinner with him, was inspired by his time
living with Mark Heard. Several of the songs performed by Harley in the play
are actually Mark’s. I was already familiar with these songs, but in this new
context, it was as if I heard them for the very first time. And they hit me like
a ton of bricks. When Harley finally gets a chance to sing a song for Preacher,
he chooses (Mark Heard’s) House of Broken Dreams.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2mDZ8-NgQ6_Ojoz-AeUw6AaWnnwfTqL6sAVcv65xWT8HwkwK9aGYgeWkCvsfJT_hQpJLlBFo1ayfudZefDzbqLuMjCtWJyrpku8Kehagn-4CH_5zF61_ZhjjYjnBs-pySz46xyCBjcgFZpCs1itqY-pEc9kBqpi9pDqmeJqs3ESEuqtPvjw=s495" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="490" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2mDZ8-NgQ6_Ojoz-AeUw6AaWnnwfTqL6sAVcv65xWT8HwkwK9aGYgeWkCvsfJT_hQpJLlBFo1ayfudZefDzbqLuMjCtWJyrpku8Kehagn-4CH_5zF61_ZhjjYjnBs-pySz46xyCBjcgFZpCs1itqY-pEc9kBqpi9pDqmeJqs3ESEuqtPvjw=s320" width="317" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Heard circa the1980s. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>I’m old enough to know<br />
That dreams are quickly spent<br />
Like a pouring rain on warm cement</i><br />
<i>Or fingerprints in dust<br />
Nectar on the wind<br />
Save them for tomorrow<br />
And tomorrow lets you down again<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
Lay me down to sleep<br />
Come and comfort me<br />
I’ll sleep in peace<br />
In a house of broken dreams<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
Give me the reasons to go on<br />
Soften the sorrow that shatters and bends<br />
And mend<br />
Broken dreams<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">By the end of that song, I was a
puddle on the floor of the theatre, cracked in two—and we were only 15 minutes
or so into the play. Other songs deepened the experience, but that moment
defined the story and seemed to outline how things might resolve. We learn that
Harley faces some hard choices. As for Preacher, he believes he’s made the
wrong choices and counsels Harley not to do the same. Johnson adds bitter notes
by telling Harley to ignore any advice from Preacher, who’s obviously a broken
man. We discover that Johnson has every right to say this, as betrayal and
friendship are weighed in the balance of each detail.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Another character, Destiny, enters
later. Skillfully played by Natalie Llerena, she injects warmth and hope into a
sometimes-dismal debate over the two sides of an artist’s soul. At first, I
thought she was mostly a plot device to give more weight to the choices Harley
has to make—but no, as the story unfolds we learn that she is more than that. She
and Harley sing a beautiful rendition of Mark Heard’s <i>Everything Is Alright</i>.
Destiny turns out be the God-given grace between the practical responsibilities
Harley faces and the dreams he thinks he must leave behind. She is pivotal in
the play’s ideas about sacrifice and forgiveness, about personal growth and redemption.
Another heartbreaking and heartwarming duet with Harley <i>(Outrun the Wind</i>
by Pat Terry and Randy VanWarmer) lays out more of the pair’s emotional
territory:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>I held you
like a rosary<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>prayed you
like a prayer<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>sacrificed
everything<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>didn’t care<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>that mean
streak down inside you<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>is one cross
I couldn’t bear<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>my heart’s
the proof<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>the scars
are there<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>God knows I tried<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Braved the
rain of those storm clouds in your eyes<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>When I said
I’d go the distance<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Things were
so much different then<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>I could
still<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Outrun the
wind<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Without offering spoilers, I’ll say
that among all the philosophical turmoil and existential crises, there’s a
narrative that lands on the side of hope and recovery. The threads holding this
worn and colorful quilt together are the deepest questions about faith—in God,
in our heroes, and in our own abilities. These are the same questions Mark
Heard struggled with—in his career, in his personal life, and in his
songwriting. This is why I connect to his music and to this play.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">If Harley and Preacher don’t get
all the way to a detente, they do at least send us off with a final duet, Rivers
of Hope (also by Terry and VanWarmer):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Nothing
grows<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>In this dry
hard ground<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>There’ll be
rivers of hope<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>When the
love rains down<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">This is just the tip of the iceberg.
There are 12 songs in the play, well curated for the script, that help us ride the
raging currents that flow underneath and between the characters. I felt exposed,
vulnerable, and exhausted after seeing <i>Salvage</i>, yet more understood than
I thought I ever could be. Alderson makes his living as the executive director
of a nonprofit, not as an artist, but he’s spent enough time around artists to
know what makes us tick. As for me, I’ve just started a teaching career, but
this play gives me hope to keep striving as an artist.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">I could go on and on, but the play’s
the thing and should be seen. And despite all this deep material, it is a play
full of humor too. I laughed about as much as I cried. If you are in the L.A.
area this December, check out <i>Salvage</i> at Hudson Theatre. It closes on
Sunday, December 19. It is a small theatre, and the play is only 90 minutes,
but the best 90 minutes I’ve spent in a long time. The cast is an excellent
professional cast. As other reviews have said, “it packs a powerful punch.”<o:p></o:p></p></div>bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-52079323846195345452020-05-19T23:18:00.000-07:002020-05-19T23:18:10.965-07:00Ripping Out the Roots<br />
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Yesterday was a monumental day because we got that stupid *%&^*(#
rhododendron out! Well, Martin did and he’s always my hero! I hadn’t told
anyone the real reason that I wanted that thing gone not even Martin and my
Boy. Yes, it overshadowed my garden but, in a way, it cast a big shadow on my
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When we moved into this house, I had miscarried, and my
brother Tom had died a few months before. We moved in during March and I
miscarried again in May. I put in my first vegetable garden in June in the back
but wasn’t happy with the little creeping shadows that this flowering bush
cast. My garden was okay, but not flourishing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next year I had suffered another miscarriage by the time it
was to put in the garden. My son was turning three and more delightful, but
difficult as we’d just confirmed a diagnosis of autism. I had been fired from a
job I adored for a political misstep and boneheaded mistake, had major surgery
and felt better because of it, but struggled to heal completely before the
miscarriage happened. I stepped into my back-garden space and that stupid bush
was bigger than ever. I spent a week hacking at the branches and whittling it
down taking out my grief and furry on it and the nearby butterfly bush just because it was there and thriving. It felt really good to lash out at something and I had a
decent garden for once that year, but I could see the bush was not deterred and
would grow back easily.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The year I hacked it way back not a bad garden!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The next year when it was still rather small trying to come back a pumpkin reaches for the light.</td></tr>
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The next year I had my two final miscarriages and the most
difficult emotionally and physically. The next to the last one happened just a
week past my first trimester and as elation turned into raw agonizing grief and
brokenness. Emotionally spent, a few months later I found myself pregnant again
and with no enthusiasm for the moment and like a dying ember of my reproductive
life the child was expelled as it quickly and mercifully miscarried.</div>
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My son began to fight against my every move it seemed, and I went slept walked through the next two years wounded and feeling like someone had
sunk a red-hot poker through my heart and left a hole there. I wrote plays. I
kept busy. I took care of my family but I felt nothing. Except that I wept nearly every
Sunday in church begging God to let the hurt stop. I would go out to my garden
each spring and plant things, but not touching that bush as it had won. The
shadows grew deeper and the little mottled sun that got to my veggies only the
peas really thrived. What are peas in a garden? A tiny vegetable that is happy to grow in half sun and shadow with sweet centers revield after casting off the outer coats that keep all the pieces together. They are one of my favorites an underated veggie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just as I began to come up for air and the cobwebs crisscrossed
a patch over that hole in my heart, my oldest brother became really ill landing
in the hospital for months, then half a year. The spring he was really ill, I
saw that rhododendron untouched had grown enormous. I began to pray for my brother,
David, begging for his life and hacking at that bush taking it down. When I got
to the main trunk and I was exhausted I let it be. I planted my garden and hoped
for the best. My brother died that August just as I was harvesting my zucchini and
tomatoes. I sat on the little bench under that bush and cried my eyes out.</div>
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My son was bigger now and would pummel me on a regular basis. My final furry purry and constant companion, my-eighteen-year-old cat, Sasha died. Each spring, I would take my fury and put it into trying to take out that bush
to no avail. The roots were solid, and I was no match for it. Years went by and
I did the best I could with my dwindling patch of sunshine and I left the bush
alone. I began to appreciate the color and fragrance each spring and the honeysuckle
that nestled in its branches. I resented the monster blackberry vines that
wound around it and snaked out from it reaching into my garden.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrGTRhyImASd-SrPoq55AfGbCMggc4SuVtCCyTsSz6gJXCWoKwZkuHwR4MVaCbazm9BF-QBHUuK3griCOHmjkjj82FQIuQCf1Irp8enIQ2-NtQjbqTl2AzKZ9GPueo938yLj_2/s1600/DSC_0444.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1600" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrGTRhyImASd-SrPoq55AfGbCMggc4SuVtCCyTsSz6gJXCWoKwZkuHwR4MVaCbazm9BF-QBHUuK3griCOHmjkjj82FQIuQCf1Irp8enIQ2-NtQjbqTl2AzKZ9GPueo938yLj_2/s320/DSC_0444.JPG" width="320" /></a>My father died in the spring and I barely put in any plants.
He was the vegetable gardener in our family growing up. I spent many hours, in my childhood, with him in the garden and loved that time with him. The plants I did put in my back "big" garden I forgot to water, and they burned up that summer as I felt I couldn't go back there much.
I could see the rhododendron blossoms from my office window, and I thought to
myself, “Enjoy this summer because next spring, I’m taking you down!” Little did I know that a devistating car accident would leave me with no will to do much of anthing, but I dissapeared into work at school and surviving at home for the next couple of years. I just kept busy and numb in mottled nid of sunshine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I trimmed the rhodie a bit and put in
pathetic garden after pathetic garden. Concentrating on a new raised garden I
was nurturing in the front yard instead. That way I could run out and tend to it
and my herb pots on the porch and be done with it occasionally watering what
was in the back, but not expecting much. My son needed more attention than my
gardens and I allowed him to take the hose and semi-drown the back as it went
from suffering from lack of water to needing an arc to float by after he was
done with it. A few struggling plants survived and even coughed up a pumpkin
here or a tomato there or wee small peppers or peas but nothing much. I wanted
more as my back garden seemed to represent the feast and famine of my good and
bad times and the rhododendron, something that I’d tried to kill several times,
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Fast forward to last spring whereas a family we had a year
of new therapy under our belt that was working to stop the pummeling and home life was much, much calmer. I had a new job
and started teacher training. The miscarriages stung, but the hole had sealed
to a scar when touched reminded me of the five little souls that I believe I
will meet one day in Heaven and that makes me smile now most of the time
instead of weep. I could breathe again. The grief was like lapping gentle waves
against the shore as a constant rhythm that added to the beauty, with storms
comming up less often. I put in a modest garden in the little sun that still
remained. I looked at that bush and my shoulder that was aching sill after a couple of mishaps at school and many
months of physical therapy, but I was not ready to battle that bush.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This spring Coronavirus shut down school and then the
state. We were stuck inside with it raining and so I ordered seeds and started
seedlings. It made me insanely happy to see those seedlings coming up as I hadn't nurtured my own little sprouts in many years (well not successfully) and these were healthy, green, and thriving. I knew I had to clean up the back space to plant anything, but it wasn't my intention at first to face my old nemisis--just do a bit of cleaning. The first sunny day I went out to survey the back for my garden
space. I couldn’t believe how huge that bush had gotten! It was like I was
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My son came out to help me. We started with finding the blackberries
and taking them out, then the ivy that was bunched up in it, and then the
honeysuckle. After we had cleared that away, I just began to calmly cut rhodedendrib branches.
It felt good. Some of the branches were dead and some very much alive. I cut
and he hauled and then he’d cut away at it. It felt like we were doing
something useful. For me, it felt like uprooting failure, grief, fears, and all
the ugly stuff that has flourished for so long with me and the autism diagnosis too. My
son talked to me about how he feels about autism as we worked. It was a
remarkable conversation and something I wish I had written down, but I was
blown away by his depth of what he feels about it, more than I ever thought.
Together, we got further than I ever had alone with that bush and we both saw
there was a chance to get it out of there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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about wanting suggestions on how to get the rest of it gone. I got all kinds of responses—some helpful
and some not. It felt a lot like when you are grieving and so many well-meaning
people tell you what you should do instead of just sitting with you. I was
encouraged when Martin came out and helped us dig around the huge roots and
rocks. A small mounting of dirt piling up and lots of sweaty afternoons trying
hard to get rid of the thing as we hit two months of being locked down for
Coronavirus and battling this stubborn bush. Martin was all for a better garden
space and helping us. It became our Sunday afternoon activity as a family. A friend
lent us an axe and another friend came and sharpened it and started off hacking
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My son stayed enthusiastic until about a week ago when he
said we’d never get it out and he stopped helping me dig. I told him, “It
has to go!” He asked me, “Why?” And I said I could not garden around or have it take over everything ever again. I knew my stability during this time and all I was headed for depended on ripping out those roots. We had to succeed!<br />
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Martin, taking a break from work
yesterday, decided to take a few swings at it. I was out there putting in my
garden in it’s usual space when I said, “Is it loose at least?” He kicked it
and it had a lot more give than it had fueled with renewed energy of seeing it
move, he picked up the axe again to let chips fly. Then one more swift kick and
it moved enough that I ran to the house and called for our son to help us rip
out the rest. My son quietly removed the taproot and other roots as my loving
husband put the stump to one side in triumph. (Side note: actually today Martin dug out what I think is the actual taproot).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin standing over the dreaded stump.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two of them giving that heavy beast the heave ho out of the hole.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My son standing in the hole cleaning out roots.</td></tr>
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There are still little roots that I realize could be the
return of the bush as rhododendrons are notoriously tenacious and a bit like blackberry
bushes in that way. If you leave just a piece of them, they can regrow. It
feels good to have nothing shadowing my garden (well, there is a little tree,
but that’s another story) and a chance at healthier plants and fruit this
summer. It is like the journey through the big grief that overshadowed for too
long and has gotten better with potential for lots more sunshine and growth. Little shoots of corn, cucumber, pumpkins, zucchini,
peppers, tomatoes, garlic, eggplant, nasturtiums, and marigolds are starting to
reach towards the sunshine again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seedlings stretching towards morning sun!</td></tr>
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<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-86514187134202691042019-04-22T22:27:00.000-07:002019-04-22T22:27:14.155-07:00NaPoWriMo: #18 Remembering Ozark Childhood Pleasures....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ozark
After Service Playground<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’d
ramble though the cemetery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
the grass was soft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still
filled with dew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At noon
on a Sunday afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Skipping
through the headstones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Playing
tag and studying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
people die of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or where
they were from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or speculating
where they went to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By the
small clues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On worn
out tombs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
were our play things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not really
knowing the folk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
smoked and choked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Their
way into these graves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We thought
them snug as bugs in a rug<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dug down
deep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsc6Y3y_lI07Ojay2rOYxShf7VjSDuCsWWBbpBokUBb6wPB3LqYEw4na_stJIvta8BNAPcmHLqbyo571wei8ClsrB9ReV72aeHda6CHI1JjNsq47thz8jwE00BzUrHZ2d3MOuE/s1600/DSC_0266.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1045" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsc6Y3y_lI07Ojay2rOYxShf7VjSDuCsWWBbpBokUBb6wPB3LqYEw4na_stJIvta8BNAPcmHLqbyo571wei8ClsrB9ReV72aeHda6CHI1JjNsq47thz8jwE00BzUrHZ2d3MOuE/s320/DSC_0266.JPG" width="209" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not scary
or strange<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
sitting on stones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Letting
the wind blow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My ringlets
swinging like bells<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the
church would toll in time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
rang to call me in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
a grand day of pasture play</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tattling
to all saying,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It is
time to go little girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Out from
those that have gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">into
the car with those bound in bond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Safe
with your family,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">waving
bye to friends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
played with you today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
bumping over the dirt path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Finally,
out onto the country blacktop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like
a hot bath the heat would cook us alive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Till
I begged to open the car window<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To the
wide world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR526OrCIU7aOeeBJDS-wB6mLR9IgrqEfVMQEFwEsFUAgkXl7UrP4W0ov3nCJJe8tB1MUknzZqdS9tAFTkHjKywAkrIZVJ4dnDLMejORo9eUFSX9RAVlFcsuiLb_Di3rrW1rRk/s1600/DSC_0275.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1057" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR526OrCIU7aOeeBJDS-wB6mLR9IgrqEfVMQEFwEsFUAgkXl7UrP4W0ov3nCJJe8tB1MUknzZqdS9tAFTkHjKywAkrIZVJ4dnDLMejORo9eUFSX9RAVlFcsuiLb_Di3rrW1rRk/s320/DSC_0275.JPG" width="211" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the
stiff wild wind whistling by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d
stick out my head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sucking
in the summer salty seeds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
stuck to me like glue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Undoing
the Sunday best</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rearranging
frilly buttons and bows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To hear
the bees buzz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In my
ears as we sped <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">further
down the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">pointed
towards home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-73346645990850263862019-04-21T22:25:00.001-07:002019-04-21T22:25:16.974-07:00NaPoWriMo #17: Thinking about Mary and Jesus this Easter Day<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mother
Mary, May I?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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did it feel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To grow
God inside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
nothing else had been?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You had
a notion of the eternal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking
down on everyone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He chose
you to do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
you’d only imaged<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Would
come years later<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the love of a man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And with
no man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Born
of woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And spirit
only<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You cradled
in your arms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kept
from every harm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dried
his tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Heard
his fears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was mother
to the father<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of all
fathers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Listened
as he dispensed wisdom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LroXb3wgaZqVoi8xP8Jw0p-vGyLPZEol1Yxa_HnlQeDLDsFqNjpfFI8CFFRaOdoTIS5Tl2JTXllDU-WlRtxd_qlXf5acyUhxVn70VcbDif5rF5r9Pg9wGG9ETKSCMdJ7Nob3/s1600/_DSC0018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1063" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LroXb3wgaZqVoi8xP8Jw0p-vGyLPZEol1Yxa_HnlQeDLDsFqNjpfFI8CFFRaOdoTIS5Tl2JTXllDU-WlRtxd_qlXf5acyUhxVn70VcbDif5rF5r9Pg9wGG9ETKSCMdJ7Nob3/s320/_DSC0018.JPG" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At a
young age<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
began his ministry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But disturbing
as it seemed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He talked
of his death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And resurrection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">How could
God give this miracle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
miracle worker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
boy turned man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who spanned
generations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And was
generous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
his time and talents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He was
bringing a nation together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
to be torn apart by his death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
heart died with him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary,
you thought you were dreaming<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Did an
angel come?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
you knew he grew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Out of
somewhere and not from you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or any
man and so it must be true<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
then he came back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwmgQa6SMj8cr1W7G323h4t8I_7jRla3Pc5tM6a4QxoleiF-B3FSUfL4a_GtiSB6f7o2nbnjl4hx62CRE2TgAdpIImKDmkeliwE070fiwOj4z6INkUvFlfx9jhJC6jR4hI6gZM/s1600/_DSC0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1600" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwmgQa6SMj8cr1W7G323h4t8I_7jRla3Pc5tM6a4QxoleiF-B3FSUfL4a_GtiSB6f7o2nbnjl4hx62CRE2TgAdpIImKDmkeliwE070fiwOj4z6INkUvFlfx9jhJC6jR4hI6gZM/s320/_DSC0007.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You heard
he was here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You ran
down the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To kneel
at his feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As he
proved God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
stood as man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whole
and yours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ours,
you thought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Given
now bought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The high
price of blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
protects from the judge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus
embraced you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wiped
your tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Held
you close<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Put away
your fears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-20887770286062566922019-04-18T22:35:00.002-07:002019-04-18T22:35:48.282-07:00NaPoWriMo: #15 & 16 Physical Therapy and Maundy Thursday<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Physical
Therapy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yes,
the other therapist told me you were easily inflamed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I sat
with that label as she pulled and prodded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
massaged and yanked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Sorry,
was that too hard?”, she asked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As I
winced internally<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seeing
a star or two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wondering,
“What did I do to deserve this?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A friend
recently said that she calls this process<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“pain
and torture” instead of what it is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I contemplated
if I was taking in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All she
was saying I needed to do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
thought about all the advice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
comes my way in every given day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And all
I wish to dispense<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But whine
within<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wondering
if I really am just “easily inflamed”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or do
I ignore that stab of hitting that one sore spot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
I see red?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She inquired,
“Is that too much?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yes,
yes, I think I’m done!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Uncle,
uncle you’ve won!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
pain will be worth it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
always is in the end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Madatum<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">An
upper room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Impending
doom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was all
around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not said
out loud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His
best beloved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pushed
close, shoved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To sit
by Him<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Last Supper</i> by Leonardo Da Vinci </td></tr>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No other allowed in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
blessed the bread<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Named
it his body instead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He poured
the wine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For the
last time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It
is my blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">poured
out in love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Drink
and taste.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
did in haste<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
knew he said<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He would
soon be dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And would
rise again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
cleanse men’s sin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
didn’t understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
humble man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
slipped away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
get paid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Darkness
came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Judas
stained<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">God’s
hand in motion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Disciple’s
devotion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To a
garden’s edge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hollow
words, a pledge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
prayer, a plea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Father,
can this pass from me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Torches
touch night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is nearly a fight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus
is taken away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He chooses who to save<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is not always easy to describe silly things I do at my desk to take a quick
break, but somehow it works to bring me somewhere new.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Speckled
Glass Wings<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The cool
slide <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
poke-a-dot underside, slips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Over
my wrist skin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Making
me feel satisfied<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
I know what I like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
if it is just for a second<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or three
as I think<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking
up at the blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Outside
my window<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And now
my head drops<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Noticing
my desk is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">a contrasting
deep royal blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am
struck that is the color of sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am
transported under observing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Soft
sea grass waves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wale
shark above and darkness below<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I swim
quiet miles meeting no one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
to emerge, upright and no struggle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Salt-filled
water licking my ankles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I turn
to squint at the endless horizon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stretching
further than sight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
stand still till rocks have shadows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The curious
creatures venture out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
underneath craggy castles at dusk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to riddle
with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
is out there beyond the edge?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The curve
that tilts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrapping
round to the upside down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The water
is strained<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking
so different in opposite-land<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
feet are hands and hands can be replaced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Taken
off and shot into outer-space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sound
of sirens or horns knock me back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unwanted
interlopers into my smooth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Minute
of grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
blue has turned to dark gray-blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Refocusing
on the dotted widow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tiny
temples of raindropsn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
is the pin-prick persuasion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
pursues my shapes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
waltz and rumba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In my
fuzzy world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
I reach out to touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
is there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The solid
glass ladybug<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
pick up again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
beside my computer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To pick
her up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sliding
her up and down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My wrist
ceremoniously<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Till
the pieces fit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
return<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In and
out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the
tide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-34697398280126349812019-04-15T23:50:00.000-07:002019-04-15T23:50:00.919-07:00NaPoWrMo: #14 The Burning of the Bells...so very sad<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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I tried to find a past poem I wrote about Quasimodo, but I couldn't find it. I think it is posted here somewhere on this blog. However, the sad news today is all I could think about. Here is my poem offering tonight.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Holy
Fire Week<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
casual observer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shocks
me to my socks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
hear Notre Dame is burning!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
had no words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A blur
of color and wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paris
in all seasons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And that
place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
settled my inner being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By being
a center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of a
city, a time, an era, and history<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mine,
yours, ours, and a nation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha5atvaZSQHEGFlGlfCU_ahkuveX5dGnq_hUpgJoE1KmEhXRZVbBWxTIUmN-5V2uCSON0EHwqgocVql26Dt9fWVjmBRvE4fwA1q70B-hVw-QlGu0nTAaaGTwisX23C31n00dDT/s1600/DSC_0144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1600" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha5atvaZSQHEGFlGlfCU_ahkuveX5dGnq_hUpgJoE1KmEhXRZVbBWxTIUmN-5V2uCSON0EHwqgocVql26Dt9fWVjmBRvE4fwA1q70B-hVw-QlGu0nTAaaGTwisX23C31n00dDT/s320/DSC_0144.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
It was
seen to tour the beauty<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But to
know the celestial wonder</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of the
story of Christ though</span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The church
and the lives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of so
many faithful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
sang, prayed, and gathered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWRBwaVP4Tv177ckr0hNfOSoRapPWpQhO1kYjTzE5FutbHVF1zuemL6SQKkkebN4thfB15HwCrxo9fbMtuAqASkQ_UIDb0g3bBSf-gyV8h_BHR0uOYtMPi8WaGbFzvFxPemD2/s1600/0300536741419019900197003918742%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here
as an anchor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To God
so far away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brought
closer in this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cathedral
of opulence through simplicity</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The worn
faces of apostles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Staring
out to the city</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guarding
the passers by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gargoyles
crouching<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ready
to pounce on any evil thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
dared to swirl around the doors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or fly
up to the bell tower<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
would be ejected<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Caught
in the teeth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of those
gruesome guards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And spit
out to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5sr_Bn1nn3u0NQdHCIj1avoAhyphenhyphenfm4oxfTB0QwantyRQjBVRa1n4-ICNjPjd1H2Aj72pzlnltlcVGwH_pzMg72hCUVWb2e_CBoAWWQDDKeIHXvr6yuHMIPASjhLO3fe5S8n9v/s1600/DSC_0112.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1063" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5sr_Bn1nn3u0NQdHCIj1avoAhyphenhyphenfm4oxfTB0QwantyRQjBVRa1n4-ICNjPjd1H2Aj72pzlnltlcVGwH_pzMg72hCUVWb2e_CBoAWWQDDKeIHXvr6yuHMIPASjhLO3fe5S8n9v/s320/DSC_0112.JPG" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Splattered
on stones below<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
are the gatekeepers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
welcome in the bright light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Through
that multi-hued round window<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Named
for a rose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Delicate
as each petal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Touching
to form a whole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which
colored the colorless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bathed
them in afternoon warmth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">God’s
loving embrace from above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKzBzCsBSlSVrx0vDNtQpD1M1d4b6iEkAQyGX7qlDrDz1xFNOnj8-rQIVNm5AcvlR3NHVYRzgPA9pfUF92QMt5uT5OnC-21VXKbp3Hv_SkHBWzdOQ4-TxtB2Wznza1J7HoAiNk/s1600/0300536741419019900197003919157%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKzBzCsBSlSVrx0vDNtQpD1M1d4b6iEkAQyGX7qlDrDz1xFNOnj8-rQIVNm5AcvlR3NHVYRzgPA9pfUF92QMt5uT5OnC-21VXKbp3Hv_SkHBWzdOQ4-TxtB2Wznza1J7HoAiNk/s320/0300536741419019900197003919157%255B1%255D.JPG" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
warming peace through light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Though
the halls and nooks</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Were
quite dark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The lights
were always enough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To illuminate
what was hidden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In corner
alcoves, a Bible story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Painted
or sculpted for us to understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seeing
the searching faces of those<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who sought
God’s presence before us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">At
some angles on the outside</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
building looked like it was about to launch</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
flying buttresses holding it steady</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For nearly
a thousand years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
spire, perhaps the last to be built<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9BWqrGrqluudVsjLg17FiIKHMwidrvvwCf8RaChyphenhyphen9KutQwDuonsJqNMCjU6aPBCI1svYBb83IXF0DbiE5E0Ltep2snpQ9_id8NA0eHnBW_GCpf4ZEyTqS4x6CWuxO_p13m6n/s1600/0300536741419019900197003919203%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9BWqrGrqluudVsjLg17FiIKHMwidrvvwCf8RaChyphenhyphen9KutQwDuonsJqNMCjU6aPBCI1svYBb83IXF0DbiE5E0Ltep2snpQ9_id8NA0eHnBW_GCpf4ZEyTqS4x6CWuxO_p13m6n/s320/0300536741419019900197003919203%255B1%255D.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pointing
so straight up to God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
ever there was a neon sign<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">that
was the one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
now it is gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhoCwI2XwCgpcD2mJOIO4N6BU4X-ow2PNPHkjGr9kqaWq50GkPx5C3gtW_267VWU0wh_aiLmXj_y8v2xKqrrRp0eFPUC-wV7TWOmkPsIz6BPtg0roIxo2hSEm7heHfUO_uO_O7/s1600/DSC_0111.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1600" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhoCwI2XwCgpcD2mJOIO4N6BU4X-ow2PNPHkjGr9kqaWq50GkPx5C3gtW_267VWU0wh_aiLmXj_y8v2xKqrrRp0eFPUC-wV7TWOmkPsIz6BPtg0roIxo2hSEm7heHfUO_uO_O7/s320/DSC_0111.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Consumed
by unholy fire</span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
an unknown source<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The people
weep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not knowing
where to look<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the
sign has collapsed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a
gasp, trying to breathe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Out it’s
last words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still
standing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">God
not gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
will rise again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is Easter’s song</span></div>
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<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-31327322471953664332019-04-13T23:29:00.000-07:002019-04-13T23:29:21.255-07:00NaPoWrMo: #12 Thoughts on The Diary of Anne Frank<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We went
to Seattle Children’s Theatre’s lovely rendition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Diary of Anne Frank</i> tonight. It got me to thinking of all she must
have thought. A lifetime of thoughts in one so very young. Here is my attempt
to put that into words. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anne’s
Diary of Hidden Places<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
small tight space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Standing
side by side for hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bombs
going off</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shaking
the plaster</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Down
until we look like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Old men
and women<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
though some of us are children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We might
die as the old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
though we haven’t <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fallen
in love, walked in the sun holding hands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Found
our place taking up the space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We thought
we could or would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The world
hasn’t heard our voices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It wasn’t
our choice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To go
into hiding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
our customs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our beliefs
are different<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And we
are from old lineage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our heritage
scares <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The man
across the street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
we are many<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are
now being hunted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Down
to few<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
cry seeing a sliver of the open sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Imagining
I’m a bird <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
can fly far away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
the destruction and hate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I believe
all men are really good at heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdc2A_ycpg9Qf57Iwe_u0CQA9wRp7wRKzlxj__RgwLP0YR1ce5Zj8CI9F8oUxbg8OXkbcMewtwvbrKBwTLeN_ghGVzS_PfSzllikZsjVwm-nvsZG-Q8K446AdIxUIqu3_Twg3g/s1600/AnneFrankSchoolPhoto2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdc2A_ycpg9Qf57Iwe_u0CQA9wRp7wRKzlxj__RgwLP0YR1ce5Zj8CI9F8oUxbg8OXkbcMewtwvbrKBwTLeN_ghGVzS_PfSzllikZsjVwm-nvsZG-Q8K446AdIxUIqu3_Twg3g/s320/AnneFrankSchoolPhoto2.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is where they start<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
are like barren trees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
sprout buds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bursting
forth from love’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eternal
spring calling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Into
a full strong tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Full,
green leaves of life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
shade me when the sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is too
strong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, I
can rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is what I think of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Crammed
in where I don't belong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Waiting
for the noise to end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The sorrow
that drowns my dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To drain
away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And though
I am soaked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
will dry off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And write
about the glorious sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
is the prettiest sunset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
will see it in the dawn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of my
new day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The world’s
new love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For all
mankind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-11051472895522081592019-04-11T19:32:00.000-07:002019-04-11T19:32:22.454-07:00NaPoWriMo: #11 Thoughts about cloudiness...<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cloudy
Days<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
dome is over my home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hovering
just above the tree line<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
sometimes feel trapped<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not wanting
to be under it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As it
shatters down as spiky shards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cloud-shards
stabbing me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The pain
is unbearable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
want to see open sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And know
warmth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Other
days, the soft white-gray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
I see nothing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do
feel cozy, snug<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Huddling
deeper into my blankets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Imagining
far away green hills<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A home
in spring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the wet coming down outside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
washes everything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
time and grief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
childhood home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Filled
with music<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The voice
floating from the kitchen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My mother’s
clear soprano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the
distinct smell of cinnamon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Inviting
me to taste and see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All that
is good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-76361128193129403142019-04-10T21:37:00.001-07:002019-04-10T21:43:27.155-07:00NaPoWrMo: #9 & #10 Bumpy Callings and Grief <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I thought
I was only going to write one poem tonight, but another immediately followed
the other. I think because I was looking for a play on my shelf and a bunch of
programs from my brother’s funeral fell down and scattered all over my floor. I
didn’t realize at first what they were but I picked them up and was a little
startled. Grief sometimes conks you hard on the head when you least expect it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
first poem, I’m not sure where that popped out from either except I’m studying hard
to pass more state tests and my mind wanders to “what if…” as in I don’t pass
and why things are hard, but then I say “shut up” to it and write poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Bumpy Side of Easy Street<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
people seem to skate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Having
not much on their plate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is another way to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
though the way is slow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To struggle
and strain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And live
through pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or seem
like you are stained<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You remain
walking without complaint<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dodging
boulders, rocks, and jumping potholes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Diving
down deep into the middle of your soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A tunneling
out to break onto the surface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Searching
for a calling or purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Listening
hard to the whispers of God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reminded
that you are his child on this sod<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
always wonder if the way was more smooth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Would
I be in a servant mood?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or would
I slip off a path made of glass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To lounge
sweetly in the grass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe
it just looks that way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or I
catch a person on a good day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
really, we all climb our way up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wishing
there was a thing as luck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grief’s
Burnt Offering<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have
a ripped corner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
is leaking out <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ever
so slow my memories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
each person I love goes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At
first, when they drop away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
relive as much as I can<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
fan the flames of heartbreak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Working
tunes of long forgotten bands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Laying
out negatives <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a
slide show<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And some
so faded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
wonder if they can be rescued<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To be
looked upon one more time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
agony not to see the detail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To guess
at colors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And washed
out faces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking
at hand written notes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
handwriting I can’t decipher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
my friends and relatives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Leave
me here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
realize I only know half the story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or haven’t
even heard it one time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
am cut again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, the
tiny hole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gives
way to the weight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of the
sand like contents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of my
longing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For one
more touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Word
or wink<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
is a smothered flame<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still
smoldering under the substance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
was us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now the
thing that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Covers
and continues to smoke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Showing
that it was there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We were
there together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now two
essences in contrast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not able
to give each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
the other needs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
we are apart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The burnt
offering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rising
to Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Holding
up angles in choir robes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As it
is denser than clouds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And warns
as it warms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The citizens
of that city<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another
sacrifice has been made<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To please
the mighty priesthood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And floodgates
of my eyes open<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the
charred spirit stings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Releasing
the song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
only you I sing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-46936872176409038752019-04-08T22:50:00.001-07:002019-04-08T22:50:15.784-07:00NaPoWrMo: #8 I do wish I were a tree as that seems easier?<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poem
#8 My pain is distracting me tonight, so here is what you get.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Being
the Tree<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Heavy
howling hurts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
drag down each step<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And take
my mind away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To the
land of bogs and begs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Compromises
with myself <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To get
through, just get through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And walk
out to a light breeze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wondering
if I’ll ever be that light again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or if
this anchored to the earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Plodding
along in lead shoes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Puts
me firmly on the ground<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stranded
to sink in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Painkillers
that do not live up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Only
taking off the slight edge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
constant pulse that pulls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pushes
through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like
sap it drains out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Others
find it sweet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But it
is the veins of pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
make me reach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And reach
out that limb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To try
to touch the sky today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Soothing
the weary waters within<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Growing
ever so slow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To stretch
out those pulses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who pound
me to a pulp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
dig deeper sending out roots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Standing
tall as I dare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-71158726022085730462019-04-08T00:00:00.000-07:002019-04-08T00:00:05.909-07:00NaWrPoMo: #5, #6, & #7 Route 66, Talking all night, and Vacations<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poem
#5, #6, & #7—Yes, I’ve skipped a few days as I’ve been on the road now, but
we are back home. The poems should flow daily now that I’m not traveling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">66 Mother Road Kicks<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
boy studies the Arizona map<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And it
is as lightening zaps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His brain
a tingle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As he
mingles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Facts
and road descriptions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
questions and fictions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Finding
more and more to ask<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As he
kicks back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking
out the window<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On this
spring furlough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grandma
takes the wheel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her partnership
with him is another appeal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On this
road adventure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Having
her to himself was the clencher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
sped past well known towns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
they knew they’d circle back around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">First
stop Ash Fork where she once taught<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
the side of the road there were native clay pots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seligman
there were some old stands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now hollow
and empty spread across the land<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Peach
Springs sounded refreshing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
he said there wasn’t anything there eye catching<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Valentine
could have been full of loves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He heard
nothing but the coo of morning doves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hackberry
sounded juicy to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was still as empty as could be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kingman
was their overnight stop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
essential road motel couldn’t be topped<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
trip picked up as they went on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lake
Havasu City held a huge pond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
went back and forth on the London Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
was suspended over a water filled ridge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oatman
was full of borros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
be ridden over the dust filled furrows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
crossed over to Needles, California briefly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
was excited to hit another state chiefly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Back
through Williams, Winona, and Two Guns, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Humming
along they had lots of fun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Talking
of politics, modern tricksters galore,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Never
stopping at any stores,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
didn’t matter when he went to Winslow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
the train crossed the tracks rather slow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
was a big hole there to see,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As that
is where the big meteor be,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
space program trained there,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
studied the details to care,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
met his parents again in Flagstaff,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
said not missing them one wit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His
eyes sparkling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the
sky was darkening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
didn’t want grandma to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As this
had been her show<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The old
roadside curiosities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Felt
like a trip of impetuosities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
bonded young and old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A coin
not to be sold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We hope
he will keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
her life is complete<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A road
traveled together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Makes
everything so much better<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dawned<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Darkness
illuminated by a crescent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking
like an ear with dangling star earring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Haziness
of light as an iridescent fog<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Suspended
as a net waiting to catch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All the
thoughts that have flowed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">During
an all-night talk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of two
people that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Couldn’t
stop talking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
the freedom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of past
discovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thought
not new<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was healing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
spot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which
no longer bled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No more
lead all purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To push
through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
was to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">what
could be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or
scrubbing clean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
had been<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
first ray spikes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a
strong spine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
limbs grow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the
sun spreads<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stretching
her influence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A sprout
reaches up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nodding
to the ray’s warmth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The truth
shared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
raises up our heads<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To know,
to glean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
is deep in our cores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The sun
shares space with moon’s head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And star’s
jeweled jealousy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A few
tears shed to water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The deep
roots that are already there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Feeding
the plant that turns its face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Towards
the warmth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Showing
the bloom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
was waiting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Among
the thorns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And cracked
earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Transforming
dessert dweller<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To prized
beauty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As it
dawns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On her
what was, is, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
is to come<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
patchy clouds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To clear
intense morning light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Verdant Vacation<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You
need to go on a vacation,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
know,” was always my reply<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d
look forward to time to myself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And spying
on a piece of the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
wasn’t my home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But belonged
to somewhere in my soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d
picture each stop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
I’d look for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
I’d find<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
the right thing, food, or fun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
I’d say, ”Hon, could you just scratch that spot?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
would be glorious<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In my
mind, always<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
I would drag back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Monday
morning slapping me awake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thinking
to myself, “Oh for pity’s sake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
did we do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
have I done?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And “I
cannot go on.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Groaning
all the way into work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
some co-worker beams at me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Welcome
back! How was it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
cock my head with coquettish grin remembering,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It
was great!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
quip, “Need a vacation from your vacation, huh?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Just,”
I sigh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Keeping
close those indescribable treasures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
day dreams met expectations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
body bids for more of that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As it
pushes through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The pushpins
of places marked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On my
home map<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tacked
to my globe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
spins in my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Searching
for that next vacation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-23297532226180891442019-04-04T22:56:00.000-07:002019-04-04T22:56:30.119-07:00Poem #4: For Gregory Magyar<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
friend Gregory Magyar, who moved to Texas many years ago, died today. Even
though we weren’t close anymore, we stayed in touch and I spoke to him a couple
of times in the past few years as he was always a faithful reference for me for
jobs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whenever
we spoke it was like time hadn’t gone by since we’d last spoken. He was like
that with everyone. He collected people and was so generous. He collected me at
a time I was at my lowest thinking of giving up theatre and he helped me get
back to it as a stronger person. So many will miss him and I admit I have for a
long time. I am heartbroken as he is another incredible person gone way, way
too soon from this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wish I had better words for this moment, but words fail me when I can't hardly take in the information that someone I love is gone. We spent so many hours in his office just "shooting the breeze" mostly about the theatre world we loved so very much. He was passionate about so many things tossing out opinions and telling me how cool penguins are and telling me some story that would always make me laugh. He brought a lot of mirth to my life! Goodbye, Gregory...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Struck Down on a Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
went to see a big hole in the ground today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now
there is a huge hole in my heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another
piece carved out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
another person I adored<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Has been
pulled away suddenly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
like the meteor that hits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And crushes
everything flat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Killing
anything under it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No one
can dig down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To even
find the bones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As they
are pulverized<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vaporized
by the impact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
is how I feel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now that
you are gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am
not here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am
in the past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fishing
around for scraps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of time
spent talking, planning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Plotting
and listening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Talking
of oh so important plans<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In that
moment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Often
it is stupid stuff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
floats before my eyes in detail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Making
me weep and laugh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hearing
your hearty chuckle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
dwindled down into the best giggle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As your
eyes danced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wiping
away tears of mirth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Forgetting
what was so important<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To celebrate
the mundane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For hours
on end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just because we were friends</span></div>
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bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-27757101847543736512019-04-03T22:48:00.001-07:002019-04-08T22:32:58.305-07:00Poems #2 & #3: Normal (NOT!) and Exploring Canyons<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">April
2, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sorry,
no autism poem this year, but this was what was on my mind. Oh, and sorry for all the late posting of poems I'm on vacation with family! These were scribbled on the days they say just posted late.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Normal is a Scam<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Everyone
thinks they have a pretty normal childhood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until
they become adults<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Most
know it is the likelihood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
wasn’t like some cults<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
had weird parents with unusual habits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
the odd sibling or two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
think they were raised savvy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
more than a clue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
they ask around to have a shocking revelation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
they need more patience<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
discover that people have all kinds of standards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
what passes as the norm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
find that there is more than the badlands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or
being shipped off to a dorm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
find that complex prayers over dinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or
left to fend for your own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All
of it can be called home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is no one thing that clings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To the
map of getting where we need to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">April
3, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is so much more I’d like to put into words, but it comes out as impressions and
some I can’t even articulate yet. Our guide, Ben was amazing and explained well
the history of the canyon. What I can’t quite show yet in poetry is his deep
love for this place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m glad we took this tour as it reminds me of so much I
don’t put into reality, but I have read in books of the Native Americans. Reading what they've lived is so much easier for me to ignore who they were and are today. For now I have a few impressions of this
morning and my mixed up thoughts about what I took in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Feasting on Crumbs at <a href="https://www.arizona-leisure.com/campground-canyon-de-chelly.html">Canyon De Chelly</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Red
rocks holding up a new birth sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rusty
dust kicked up by truck, jeep, and rover caravans<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Crisscrossing muddy orange red trickles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
blossom with the recent rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
swollen belly having swallowed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">All that washes through here</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
canyon echoes with the stories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guide telling us who marked what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
armies fought on both sides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the
government came in again and again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrecking, taking or claiming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">forcing the will of no one</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to punish for no reason</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">they are moved in and out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and back and forth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">forced to march on and on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ben
points past his time to back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
Hopi voices rang out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carrying
snakes to shake and dance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
hiss frightening onlookers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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come to see the recreation of ceremony<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tiny
hand prints, frog men, storm dancers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kokopelli
playing tunes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On high
cave wall crescent moons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">He
points to ruins tucked high up in tiny coves</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwellings
of so long ago where the river<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cut through
at doorstep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now water
runs far below<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Only
eagles can knock on those doors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jumbled
jostling for miles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We watch
a group on horseback<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ride
by taking in land and sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Waving
us on the invisible path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
duck and cat rock formations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mid-morning
lights bouncing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reveling
every hue of rust strewn rock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
streaks of grey, black, and yellow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Veins
pumping into the canyon’s heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cottonwood
trees seem to dance to its beats<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In pulsing
sun and shadows of this sacred ground</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-86007280862275742922019-04-02T00:10:00.000-07:002019-04-02T00:10:11.811-07:00NaPoWrMo #1 Better Late than Never... "A Player Observed"<br />
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I realized just a few minutes before midnight it was April 1<sup>st</sup>
and National Poetry Month! I always write a poem a day in ten minutes or less.
Here is April 1<sup>st</sup> poem written before midnight, but posted sadly
after on April 2<sup>nd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
Player Observed<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
don’t want to depart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
I can’t start<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
I haven’t begun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A song
unsung<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A friend
who flew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
words he knew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A way
to perform<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In story
form<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His life
he lead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Outside
his head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Though
inside it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Was a
mitt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">More
a boxing glove<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He fought
in love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The world
surrounding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ever
sounding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So sure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To lure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The inside
out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Washing
away his doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-89247116814939720442018-04-30T21:11:00.002-07:002018-04-30T21:11:51.704-07:00NaPoWriMo: #35 Plumbing rules my existence anymore....<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not brilliant or hilarious, but a
little bit lighter. This gal has a lot to work on tonight besides doing this,
so this will have to be my last poem this month. (This probably really comes
from spending most of my days around middle school boys!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m tempted to keep writing tonight,
but I must pour that effort into my grad school studies and otherwise. (Only 15
more days till I take the dreaded math test again!) Goodnight all. Be good to
each other. Check back from time to time as I do post poetry and prose up here
from time to time. But for now….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s All about the Plumbing<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pipes full of suspect wipes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everything going down the drain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My brain included!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have eluded to otherwise, but no,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am not a pro at poo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is such a stew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To not know how to grow up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Making all breakdowns a big issue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When much is clogged<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A bog in my head,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such a fog,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then I lie down in bed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And my insides start to rumba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I won’t get no slumber<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over this sticky issue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is all in my head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Makes me see red<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a flash in my lumbar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looking to spar with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nope, gotta pee!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I get there feeling relief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And good grief! What is that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hit to flush and there is no rush<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have to take off the top<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Get a mop and pray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why can’t this happen in the day?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To bed I toddle after this waddle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where I sleep the fitful fain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Getting up in pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My middle is squashed by a chain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pulled tight <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It isn’t the main concern<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It doesn’t burn---just heavy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A bevy of suspects I detect<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And think I might spend my day in the
<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privy?src=search-dict-hed">privy</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A chance at not being the resident
<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/skivvy">skivvy</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I stretch it out with grumble and pout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Moving despite the internal shout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Uh, gotta run! Something has started to
come<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flushed out clean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ah, serene!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the toilet went too---yahoo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now if the coffee will just help me
start<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, I might sound smart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Caffeine highway, here we come!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Making sure everything is plumb!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-16708150268234631072018-04-29T23:00:00.000-07:002018-04-29T23:02:16.045-07:00NaPoWriMo: #34 For Marty and Kelly<br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(I promise I’ll try to post something more
on the humorous side if I can, tomorrow. I can’t believe the month is over!
This is the first April I’ve skipped so many times—sorry.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For those that only read my blog, I
didn’t write last night because I found out yesterday that a dear college buddy
of mine died in a car accident. I wrote a tribute to her on my Facebook page
and posted pictures, but no poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last night I did look at a poem I wrote
about her in college, but it isn’t very flattering to her at the time, so I
won’t post it. It isn’t fair to her. So that one will stay in my journal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I tried to rough out other poems, but
the well is quite dry. I tried to write about my recent friend that died, but
then I kept thinking how I found out in January of another college friend that
also died---a couple of years ago----but to me it feels recent. And the phrase,”They
haven’t died, they’ve gone on…” from some movie popped into my head and I
thought what a funny notion. So, here is my attempt at a poem tonight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gone On<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two friends have gone on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unrehearsed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I didn’t know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Both a violent rip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not a planned trip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One closer to me than other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pinpoints of time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hand cut jewels that were mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Many ideas discussed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And a trust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That was there <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Things we shared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Despite how much had gone on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I knew them in the dawn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of me discovering real<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Such appeal to walk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And talk over nothing and everything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They left sudden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am bereft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Deaf in one ear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wanting to be near<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, I cannot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It must stop! Please just stop?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And wait for that train or plane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The trip sounds good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But as I understood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our reservations are to be so much
later<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To cross that sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How can it be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two women so strong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Have gone on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I didn’t know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was slow to notice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My vote would have been for them to
stay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not go away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A vacation I could stand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d hire a band <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to welcome them back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now I’m slack<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here crying in my beer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I should celebrate, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Go on all night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Talking about how good they’d been<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s the trend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But in the quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is no riot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Clamoring for more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just pictures that don’t speak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And how I seek to know who they were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is like a burr <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stuck to my pants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pricking me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in a spot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I can’t quite reach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I know they’ve gone on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I can’t respond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like a rock thrown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Deep into a pond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I meant to skip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It makes that sick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lack of bounce sound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A deep high hitting the ground plink<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That stinks and I feel cheated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I want that perfect-in-my-hand rock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To fling and go on zinging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Across to the other side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To go on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Okay, I let you go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And show that I know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not when but where<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You’ve gone on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-80295526907394476922018-04-27T22:37:00.002-07:002018-04-27T22:37:38.307-07:00NaPoWriMo: #33 Stuff, things, and more uh...stuff....<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Banged this out in literally less than
10 minutes as I don’t have time tonight to think a lot through writing
poems---no thesaurus or rhyming dictionary tonight---nope, just my gut. I’m in
the middle of writing a paper and have to get back to it as I’m highly distractible
right now. I’m not sure what all of this poem means, but maybe some of you can
read it and tell me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Accumulation of the Heart<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The urge to purge surrounds me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It astounds me how much I’ve accumulated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I feel dated by this stuff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And yet I go on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">somewhere says it isn’t enough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To bathe in things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That ring round and cause me to dizzy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How to get rid of it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before it is too late<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And someone else at my gate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sighs saying they don’t know what to do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With my stuff!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still here I sit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dripping wet with wiggly wonders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That wanders all over my house<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is surprising we haven’t been <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Torn asunder by the weight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of our collective junk pile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of what is in and out of style<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And is hot and not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is maddening to think about<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When it throws a doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">About what matters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are scattered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inside and out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see something with glee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When given to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I love to gift things to my friends
too<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A map, a picture, a pen, a shoe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To pick up the blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I give with much intended<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I befriended this thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I bestow on you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And hope that you love it too<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve given experiences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But it doesn’t reverse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My pattern of giving something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To someone for that bling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of enthusiasm <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such sparkle and glee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pointed towards me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or away from how deeply<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I feel and cannot deal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the daily dose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of how to say more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I’m verbose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On paper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I’m an escaper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who would rather give<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A token <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That might get broken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But with great care<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I place it within your reach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we can bare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What to keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-18944905616162064332018-04-26T21:26:00.001-07:002018-04-26T21:29:32.216-07:00NaPoWriMo: #32 Middle School Lunchtime<br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Can you tell I monitor students during
lunch? It is fun for human observations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Second Lunch Watering Hole<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bright, white sun reflecting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Off the blacktop play space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That is overrun by students<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Each studying the other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Without saying so<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They glow, bow, and imitate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grown up gesture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gauged in middle school vernacular<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grouping by the watering hole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After lunch ritual<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The packs roaming<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some hogging the shallows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Staking out the best places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They are callow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Growling to strike fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And no one come near<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As they chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or hash out the latest spat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They look like the ones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That could eat you alive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But not really<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The ones that strive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To stay hidden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or doing what is forbidden quietly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Those are the ones to flee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They are the wolf pack<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Waiting for the weak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is who they seek<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To grab them and drag them under<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To drown in the muddy water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where they plunder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The moral center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of the innocent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To blacken or slacken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Their convictions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In shouting loud about restrictions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When they can<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or under breath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like a grain of sand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Working its way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To irritate those that do obey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They try to flay the strays<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These calves are the ones that seek the
sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But have so little fun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As they don’t have friends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well it depends,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If one or two choose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To look their way or move<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then they are in a group<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That is searching for a hook<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To latch onto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another person that is more certain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who will lead them like they read in
books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As they are the ones that stay in the
shade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Away from the watering hole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They hide and wait till everyone trades<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Glances to say “we’re done”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And go on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bell rings, the alarm sounds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And from the middle <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One bird flies through in missile
flight solo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A clever <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird)">rook</a>, scattering them all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The last saunter, throwing one more
basketball<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Taking one more long drink<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before they have to think<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Under the placid sun of the watering
hole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I don’t want all of you to think I’m
such a sad sack that obsesses on my past miscarriages every time I see one of
my friends is having a baby or adding to their children. I think when the
miscarriages were the recent past, I was raw and it was very hard. But that is
now firmly in my rear-view mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now, it crops up at the strangest times
like when I am most elated for a friend, I get a little sick to my stomach
knowing the choices we made after those times of struggling to have another child.
It felt like personal failure and several things do---a very hard reoccurring
theme to shake in my life.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We could have adopted and nearly did,
but it was again, just overwhelming with all of what we were doing. Many of you
know my life and I can’t imagine in some ways having another child with us on
this journey and in other ways, on the good days, I feel guilty for not having
another child here with him, perhaps helping him or us along. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, I think that
is where this poem popped out last night as I couldn’t sleep---so I wrote it
down. I thin k it is also because I had a disappointment this week so, I’m
feeling fragile at other people’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>joy,
so yeah… here it is….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Birth Notice<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Deeply jealous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No trellis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To scaffold my feeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of being left<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Past steeped in mistrust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My body betrayed me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Inside formed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Little hands and feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even some toes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That is far as it goes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or went…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Never again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And yet friend after friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Had full formed babes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Added to brood after brood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I chew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the celebration of others<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not a good food<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As there is now nothing I can do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I look away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To a new day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When sorrow turns to song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When nothing is wrong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Green drains away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The monster dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Quiet in my head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For the babes that will never be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As they have crossed over the deep dark
sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the boy
and my about every other night routine. My office door opens to face his room
and he always closes his door, but I keep mine open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkvAxKM9gmNeYGEJgQJ0xcjSewduvi0qzLV_mRHXs8m2_UTx3Q7fQRNmImnVhhHalR4r2m0KsPsp-H30uLmRFLbGeSLvpOyDgPLpNz4ouwSICuKAQWzmqNZrjLsgckVHnQW8E/s1600/DSC_0174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1063" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkvAxKM9gmNeYGEJgQJ0xcjSewduvi0qzLV_mRHXs8m2_UTx3Q7fQRNmImnVhhHalR4r2m0KsPsp-H30uLmRFLbGeSLvpOyDgPLpNz4ouwSICuKAQWzmqNZrjLsgckVHnQW8E/s320/DSC_0174.JPG" width="212" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How l think of him when he calls (age 7)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After Bedtime 911 Call<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mama!” you bellow down the hall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I come to your call<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even though I know this time it isn’t
urgent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I can tell from your tone it is
convergent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of need, a question, and a seed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The need being how you feed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our bond of parent child<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have to smile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I come to help<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you utter a yelp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What is it my lamb?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As calm as I am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A million things pull at my sides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This holding me firm as I’d just hit my
stride<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I need you in here!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your panicked wail trimmed in fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I throw off the weights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ignoring my plate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And enter your room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dark as a tomb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I make out your familiar outline<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You on your bed, a shrine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That is covered in soft mountains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of blankets, now exploded like
fountains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I see how you need aid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For this I should get paid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That thought is brief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I help and you get relief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>need swiftly turns to question<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Someday you are destined<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To discover the cure to cancer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From all the quislings you get answered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The questions come in a flood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My head now stuck in deep mud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I try to be coherent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you endeavor to bear it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As there is so much I don’t know!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Kp-qneNQ9g8ehlIgrPsOeDdCElkMXgYR7y0kErWwYKBYymumIW0kxMVjRm4Mt6vNuStASvj6nrnKx2-uk3I99unKI5Nv9UiJKwg5KDQLKBnBbLSAiA1o8jCc-EyAWaUbUShX/s1600/DSC_0131.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1600" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Kp-qneNQ9g8ehlIgrPsOeDdCElkMXgYR7y0kErWwYKBYymumIW0kxMVjRm4Mt6vNuStASvj6nrnKx2-uk3I99unKI5Nv9UiJKwg5KDQLKBnBbLSAiA1o8jCc-EyAWaUbUShX/s320/DSC_0131.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is him Nov. 2017 taking a computer apart!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am not a computer pro!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You move on to plant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Knowledge that I can’t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even begin to understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I pick apart the strand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You take your Mama’s hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This part I like, it’s grand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know you’re settled in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The real goodnight begins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whatever I wanted to get done<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a better prize I’ve won<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-7525336662613214842018-04-23T21:47:00.000-07:002018-04-23T21:47:02.097-07:00NaPoWriMo: #29 the yearly sonnet attempt<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shakespeare’s
birthday and Martin and my anniversary of our first kiss----poetic, eh? I think
so! Here is my yearly attempt at a sonnet. I confess to have a huge headache
right now and I am only giving myself 30 minutes to rough one out, but
hopefully it will work out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
I have always liked some of Shakespeare’s lesser known sonnets one is posted
below that everyone skips over. I think because it contains a word that looks
like a racial slur, but it isn’t. It is a word that dates back to Middle
English meaning miserly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
just finished at the 30 mark and I like it, but I don’t think it exactly scans.
Oh well, it just proves I’m not Shakespeare!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZ9jsiSL9NdbzEZ-71JnpGdjtsMa-xLZXxcjFEJo_HOkGO8H3UN-NSU3M220Pb9OI2AVduQJ4M54BuuULAhP7p5a2rAliodHDGacMBi80IGetyehQAr-onAhYhfiCQ9yFmE3X/s1600/Roses+at+butchart+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1100" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZ9jsiSL9NdbzEZ-71JnpGdjtsMa-xLZXxcjFEJo_HOkGO8H3UN-NSU3M220Pb9OI2AVduQJ4M54BuuULAhP7p5a2rAliodHDGacMBi80IGetyehQAr-onAhYhfiCQ9yFmE3X/s400/Roses+at+butchart+001.jpg" width="275" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Song
of Sweetest Smells<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thy
lips they fell upon a rose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
taste the bloom and not the thorn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rose
high your song in lover’s silver mist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
heart blew hard on my bright ember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
tune traced our friendship twain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A kindship
brought from deepest pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Met
in joys we could reclaim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Out
of the fog of uncertain <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=loom&oq=loom&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2669j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">loom</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Weaving
thoughts that began our bloom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
we could dispel our <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7mw363q">creed</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
kiss from love’s hunger <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Godspeed">Godspeed</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_1">Sonnet 1</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FROM fairest
creatures we desire increase,<br />
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,<br />
But as the riper should by time decease,<br />
His tender heir might bear his memory:<br />
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,<br />
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,<br />
Making a famine where abundance lies,<br />
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.<br />
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament<br />
And only herald to the gaudy spring,<br />
Within thine own bud buriest thy content<br />
And, tender <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/churl">churl,</a> makest waste in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22">niggarding</a>.<br />
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,<br />
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">---William
Shakespeare 1609<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-12443110088157368152018-04-22T23:37:00.000-07:002018-04-23T00:25:47.648-07:00NaPoWriMo: #26, #27, & #28 Theology, Sex, and Politics<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These
three poems attest that I’m not in a great mood tonight. The Abraham passage
was our sermon today from Genesis 12. Yes, I see God’s promise, but it makes me
wonder why he allowed it to go the way it did? We humans just aren’t that great
at times!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is easy for me to judge as I wasn’t under the pressure he and his wife were
being refugees and all. That was the part my pastor pointed out today that I
hadn’t really thought about, but I still was annoyed. So, I wrote poems about
my annoyances tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rainbow
Theology<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
don’t give Abraham a pass!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
had so little class<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
throwing his wife under the bus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
you are married you should trust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
when you are together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
shouldn’t be scared of the dude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">you
are married to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
what he will do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sarai
had great beauty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
too much duty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
she didn’t say a word<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Being
part of the Pharaoh’s herd?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
don’t get the two of them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
allowed her to be dragged in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
she went along<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
though it was so wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
could have hidden her face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Walked
with less grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Acted
a bit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thrown
fits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
could have said<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
wasn’t right in the head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
could have hidden her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How
did this occur?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
him or her or God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes,
I find that very odd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
in all the places God asks us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
find a way to trust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here
is the future father of a nation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Giving
away his wife in temptation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
save his own skin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
the pickle he was in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
didn’t ask God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Giving
away her bod<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abram
did what made sense<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
built his fence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
hold on to what was his<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Keep
things all his biz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">God
smote Pharaoh for this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
he sought Sarai’s kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pharaoh
didn’t know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">His
part in this show<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
this is how Abram got wealthy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
too doesn’t seem healthy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was Abram’s mistake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet
God’s promise didn’t break<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxM2vhGj0qE_4NPCLAK2NQk6A5YVFQKB236mTOyebDAvygNRuOdjf7Ic68MpOOYBiaw__qrXGzsHcu7BPwfQ2rfWm4-_voFLFYmoZn4rHqQLvTNtVaw88O5kjY2VBrKyNUr-k/s1600/400px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="400" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxM2vhGj0qE_4NPCLAK2NQk6A5YVFQKB236mTOyebDAvygNRuOdjf7Ic68MpOOYBiaw__qrXGzsHcu7BPwfQ2rfWm4-_voFLFYmoZn4rHqQLvTNtVaw88O5kjY2VBrKyNUr-k/s320/400px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Instead
Abram gets back his lass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
is given another pass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
could be rather crass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
ask why this…d….a?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sorry
for the sass,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Relax,
I guess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">God
sees our mess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still
we are blessed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
when we are pests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Find
X<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two
eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two
lips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
nose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
a mouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
have them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
do I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
eyes so bright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mine
washed with salt tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yours
wide open<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mine
shut tight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
sing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
chew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
swallow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
sniff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I sneeze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
are the sum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
am the equation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
look<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trump
Card<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Korea
the forgotten war<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No
more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We’re
opening a door<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Will
we walk through it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
possibilities are huge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
we do pursue it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
isn’t just hyperbole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
say this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
stark contrast to every<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Time
we’ve heard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
word huge overused<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the past many months<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Korean
people have never forgotten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
is rotten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They’ve
understood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
this strange specimen of “manhood”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is
up to no good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
thinks he can waltz in there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
repair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
a bit scared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
happens if he gets bored?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
I’ve heard is common<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
he decides tweet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Something
dumb?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Better
run!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Look
out below!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIIzk6MQCTkwBNF24Th6sMY5MeKOQfViEXtLPkqlHSdaxEDTi_CVXQiIkD-32ZEABb8VKF5-ER-IIG9xnuEuuZgvrZZ7PD7FFNKe2vianLdeXq9Fs5ZGibXyOZke3zIkIJGD2/s1600/160517174943-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-composite-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIIzk6MQCTkwBNF24Th6sMY5MeKOQfViEXtLPkqlHSdaxEDTi_CVXQiIkD-32ZEABb8VKF5-ER-IIG9xnuEuuZgvrZZ7PD7FFNKe2vianLdeXq9Fs5ZGibXyOZke3zIkIJGD2/s320/160517174943-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-composite-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Things
could blow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or
he might just not show up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
could be better luck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d
better practice how to duck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
in case<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
does something to disgrace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh
Korea,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wouldn’t
want to be ya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
please don’t take issue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the guy without a clue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<br />bonesong1@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15693459650050053622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541440.post-41156454208022280062018-04-20T23:15:00.000-07:002018-04-20T23:15:24.472-07:00NaPoWriMo: #25 For Vally<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYy3SPRhB9usirtCkSmNjMQHcXaPZoaYdBgKmz-zh2-SnDfjrPlNB-u2aM9sV4vkWlPyQNmWykaHrlxc7NW0OFU_E3xjn3BReOyn-FFHv3ux7gE02xm4gBu6PAju7C8V86frGb/s1600/blowing-snow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="750" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYy3SPRhB9usirtCkSmNjMQHcXaPZoaYdBgKmz-zh2-SnDfjrPlNB-u2aM9sV4vkWlPyQNmWykaHrlxc7NW0OFU_E3xjn3BReOyn-FFHv3ux7gE02xm4gBu6PAju7C8V86frGb/s320/blowing-snow.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is for my dear college buddy, Val. Who surprise called me tonight from the
wilds of Iowa as she drove home to Sioux Falls. Thanks for the call Val!
(anytime!) I wish I could dig up a college picture in time to go with this post, but that would take too much digging and I wouldn't get this up tonight. So just imagine....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Phonecoming<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
car in the deep dark of Iowa stillness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shifting
past snow dusted farms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Silos
housing the grain for nations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Spring
not sprung yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Blanketed
serene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
keep asleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Those
harmed by the cursed cold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A lone
woman makes her way home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hurtling
past her past <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in
rolodex remembrances<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Braced
in place by a campus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that
has been renovated beyond recognition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but
not removed from her reality<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
reaches back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
find that person<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">who
is a friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
person who is a familiar flashlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">when
the stars are distant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">calling
from afar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
recites the number<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">dials
the digits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
waits for words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
enliven this landscape<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">where
there are shadowed giants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">encroaching
on her road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
speed slows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">when
there is an answer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
sound suspending her disbelief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that
it is real<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tonight
the gap disappears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Doubt
dispersed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
draws breath as she is heard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">after
pleasantries a plan is put forth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
possible valent visit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
her campus companion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">from
days gone by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Steady
rain now rattles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">on
the windshield<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">blurring
the brambles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">as
she ambles towards her destination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
lingering laugh lashes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">at
the lonely journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a
gust of wind pushing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
top of her van<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">weather
and words wilting together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
concludes she must talk less<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
drive more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
gives way to goodbye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grounded
now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seeing
more in orange cast streetlights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hurrying
hounded less<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Caressed
by caring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
arrives home safe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Spinning
warm wool so full<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">wandering
down memory lane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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