Delicious

While standing in life’s orchard with so much sour loot a stand of trees enjoys the breeze of a sweet, forbidden fruit whose scars, though healed but not ignored emerge as a sizzling smorgasbord.

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IF

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being [...]

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Safe

Forever a flower entices the bee yet I know at this hour this flower is free. Times passage has faded these petals and leaves, as the bees swarm and pass a part of me grieves. And yet I rejoice (with a hint of regret) to be now overlooked by a once perceived threat. Whose motive [...]

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Sticks and Stones

The tree has known, as well as stone the strength it takes to bend For trees are rooted deeply Precious foliage to nurture and tend. A chilling breeze through idle leaves Just blew the tree away While bestowing warmth on a shaded face A back draft thaw was taking place. While trees are trees and [...]

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Wild Roses

The hint of a rose appears in spring The promise of soft petals opening Lovingly planted in fertile ground Soft branches doubling, skyward bound While slowly intertwining. Each petal forms the perfect cup For dew drops, duly swallowed up Deeply rooted, determined to grow As nature induces a natural flow This mere human cannot interrupt.

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