Some days the words refuse to let me go.
On other days words pretend I am someone they do not know.
The cut-direct should not hurt so.
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SLEEP
Bodies and words awake at 4 a.m.
have no respect for the woman I am.
A review of conscience
is all well and good.
It reminds me of all that I should.
But, forgets who I am
and that I am doing
all that I could,
and not doing
all that I would
if I were not who I am.
Too tired, too little, too late,
thoughts fly sky high
as life passes me by.
Two women sit here together,
the me and the I.
One who knows her self,
a self which few surmise.
The other one who shares
her thoughts, to her surprise.
No rest this dark night.
Tomorrow comes with the light.
I sit in the darkness
and wait for the sun to rise.
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ONE or NONE
There is no I.
There is no Thou.
There is only We.
If only we knew how.
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MEMORIES
Memories
The heart’s memory
Holds truth close for but a moment.
Then moves beyond truth
To a greater reality
To become something more,
Something that can last challenging and comforting,
cherished and caressed
Through boundless eternity.
The stories we tell ourselves
May have little basis in reality.
The heart too easily
Makes fools of us all.
Yet, we become enthralled
As our stories unfold,
Especially with those stories
We have never told.
Held close to the chest,
Such untold stories
Make us look, and feel, our best.
Their power keeps us strong
And able to face all the rest.
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ART THERAPY& Haiku
When things are too hard
to take, take to creation
within and without.
POETRY FUN
I cannot wait to write a poem.
Let thoughts begin to roam
across the blank spaces
where I see only faint traces.
Whatever lurks beneath the surface
is always a surprising surfeit
of what has passed and is to become
a new creation time rolled into one.
Nothing it seems is ever lost.
Experience is the cost
of facing new challenges sent
across the waves of time unbent.
Around and round again I go.
Where I shall end up I never know.
And where I have been becomes new.
And where I go is merely a clue.
When I arrive I shall share with you
the route I took to be renewed.
I hope you will join me on the route.
That is what companionship is all about.
Knowing I shall return at the end of the journey
to your company holds me firmly
upright and focused with eyes wide open
to the beauty of words never-before spoken.
I play today to remind myself in this space
that there is always a time and place
to relax and let go, and just have fun;
to remind myself, I have just begun.
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SPEAKING CREATION
What is now does not have to be.
Speaking up is an act of creation
in this a darkening and frightening nation.
Speaking out is creativity as life may be.
In this way we are always free
to see the world much differently
than when we are told to bend our knee.
It need never be what others see.
We can create our own reality.
The act of creation is the greatest act of love,
overcoming destruction from above.
Speaking out lifts not only voices;
but lifts unlimited possibilities and choices.
Those who try to close the gates
and scare us with threats of hate
to block us in and push us down
cannot handle creativity’s frown
upended when we discover
that we can create a world of lovers.
Speak up. Speak out. Speak so loud
creators join and form a crowd
that laughs in the face of hate and greed
and creates a new and loving creed.
Speaking out is an act of creation.
Speaking out will form a new nation
conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition
that no one can force us to take their position.
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REGRET
When even words hurt
too much to write on a page,
it is time to stop.
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HAIKU/ POETRY
Wildly careening
prose portrayed as poetry
fools no one but me.
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annarino writes 
DECONSTRUCTION
The streets were lined for blocks on end.
Signs reminded all who rejoiced to attend
Why they walked and talked and smiled and waved
At passing cars who braved delays
While drivers honked horns and shouted out
“Vote him out and make it a rout!”
Costumed critters danced to our delight
Knowing their freedom would give him a fright.
Deconstruct the lies we have been told.
Deconstruct the narrative being sold.
Deconstruct the bullie’s hold.
Deconstruct institutional mold.
Gather in peace the young and the old.
Stronger are you, more wise, more bold.
Deconstruct so we can rebuild
What he has destroyed with his minions’ lack of skill.
We know how to do this, and more.
We have done it many times before.
My thanks to my friends in Clintonville area of Columbus who helped me attend this moment of patriots’ challenge to the con men robbing the USA of its power, wealth, ideals and humanity. The lack of media coverage was appalling. The misrepresentation of attendance numbers cannot be challenged when media fails to provide images of the gatherings. A local station covered it AFTER it was over and crowds had dispersed. Another stated hundreds attended when it was actually thousands. We are here. We are resisting. We are going nowhere until the despotism and kidnapping of people and the Supreme Court, universities, news organizations, social media outlets, medical and public health Institutions… even our very language and the meaning of words and phrases has been brought to an end and freedom restored.
We shall not be silenced.
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