The hummers have left with the long sunny days.
Frost settled down and intends to stay.
All that is left of the hummingbirds feeding in my yard
are memories of their daily visits and aeronautic repertoire.
I miss their dancing forms as they move from flower to flower.
I am left with cloudy days that drag out lonely hours.
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Are the stars truly fixed in the sky?
When you are away the sun
stops in its tracks
and earth’s orbit slows
in heartbeats counted
by years, not seconds.
“Time stands still,” others say.
I say time goes on without me
while there is no us to see.
Without you, the universe stills
along the path of its trajectory.
I wait with bated breath and sigh
for your return while I
watch time march on.
I watch the sky for clues
when the universe would return
you to me and me to you.
Side by side we
can make the sun move.
As we move
among the stars
in ecstasy.
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In my dream I walked the corridors
of God’s chambers, amidst the throng,
where peace reigned over all I explored.
No lies, nor subterfuge in this space.
No glory sought, no fear of votes.
No trammeled hopes. Only grace.
As I woke today I prayed
for leaders with enough courage
to enter the political fray
and accept the challenges
of the world we now face.
We once believed in Sun-Kings,
those who governed by Divine Right,
expected to do right, or at least try.
Our expectations were very high.
Those follies fell at Runnymede.
The Magna Carta decreed
leaders would now rule by right
of the people governed.
No divine right is embedded
in constitutions of free people.
The rights of the people are unfettered.
No sins were excused in those who led
in place of God, nor in place of the people.
The vestigial remnant of Sun-Kings lit
the rule of law to be followed by all.
Now leaders are expected to sin,
and focus on nothing but how to win
the next election.
How far we have fallen from the protection
of expectations for the common good
blessed from those reigning above us;
leaders of conscience who obeyed
an inner voice which spoke
of heaven on earth awoke.
Now I wake, and being woke
am told to be woke is no longer a treasure.
There are those who prefer we remain asleep
while they seek to rule, their power to keep.
There is no freedom for those who sleep,
caught in false dreams and nightmares deep.
Woke seeks not false perfection.
But, provides the best direction
to heaven’s peaceful corridors
and a way to traverse freedom’s door.
Woke is the only way
to start a new era, or a new day.
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The faces of flowers tell stories;
each face a different tale of glory.
None more remarkable than that
of Hibiscus, a woman of hidden depths
born from rough and heavy seeds
in rocky yet fertile soil.
Hibiscus bursts forth bold blooms.
Her color lights up dark rooms.
Held tight and upright to the light.
Suddenly, Sun eases her open
to the brilliance of her display.
She awakens and turns her face,
ready to say what she needs to say.
Such boldness does not last long.
A ballad, no symphony, her song.
Her life is a striding measure,
a dance to her own tune, all day long.
Life is short, no matter how strong.
Some flower cycles are not prolonged.
Still, I treasure each face she creates.
Their smiles hold me in place
and allow me brief moments of grace.
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Perhaps you are not
Where you planned to be, so create
Wherever you land.
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New page. Empty life.
Ink stains and blood drains away.
New life. Page fills up.
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We forget we are animals
defined by our biology,
determined in our theology
to become gods.
We claim supremacy
in our ability to reason.
Thus, science is treason
to our basest animality.
There is no true supremacy
in puppies seeking comfort in the pack,
but a leader holding back
its basest urges so they thrive.
Their is no supremacy among ants
plundering crumbs left behind
by birds with greater speed
after picnickers have had their feed.
Like puppies, birds and ants
we seek opportunity
and shared camaraderie
in order to survive.
Supremacy would deplete our strength,
interrupt the flow of shared effort,
deprive us of the joy of joint accomplishment.
It would make us less and steal our comfort.
Science steps in to stop such a fray
using reason to light our way.
Science untended
leaves a world upended.
Viral storms circle the globe
behind fires and drought,
rain and flood,
leaving illness and death.
Economies fall before we do
onto bended knees of recovery.
Myths replace stories
as reason loses glory.
We forget we are animals at our own peril.
We must forgo supremacy
to sustain democracy.
We must remember who we are.
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Dawn
The dawn!
The dawn!
How dare Sun
show his face.
I’ve learned to live
outside his grace,
to fend for myself,
to bend and scrape
a life beyond his space.
The ice has packed
my heart contained
in frozen lace
where it feels safe.
Now, Sun would melt
my dreams away.
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The dream that is America
died during the night.
The right to vote
and have that vote count
was gone with the dawn.
While I was sleeping
Lady Liberty lay weeping
at the second insurrection
which eroded the protection
of the democracy
we rely upon.
Democracy was killed in dark of night,
the moon’s reflected light
not strong enough
to stop the rape
of her freedoms.
We awaken worn and weary
from brittle dreams
to a new reality
forged in heated nightmares.
Dreams fade over time.
Nightmares hang on.
How long before we forget
the dream that was America?
Rest In Peace, Lady Liberty.
I cannot.
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There were rivers to cross,
then oceans;
and hills to climb,
then mountains.
Common language was lost
in failed use.
New languages grew
in its place.
The Tower of Babel could not be built,
but lay waiting,
for the day
boundaries could be crossed
minute by minute.
Applications translate
while we communicate.
Photos bound oceans.
News climbs mountains.
We build a common language
internetted, and interconnected.
No more need for State’s Rights when we
can all see a shared reality.
A united people is difficult to control
so Republicans lose their party
to the control of the trolls
who lay waiting under the bridges
we cross to meet one another.
And Right where we cross
they argue State’s Rights
to obfuscate and create
The United States of Babel,
making it impossible
to Build Back Better,
or vote.
And they do not stop at our borders.
Right wing trolls mine under the bridges
which unite the world’s democracies,
creating Towers of Babel
across the earth.
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