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One Single Moment
Originally posted on A Blog Less Traveled:
Promises Broken Sifting memories for the good times past Glimpsing images as they blur by so fast Truth shatters the stillness as they focus Grieving for a future that could never be Running down this street to nowhere You said you would always be there But the lies…
I remember
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
I remember Fragments That stick behind my eyes Like broken glass Sharp and vicious As the day they were made. I see My coffee Going cold Beneath its spiral of froth And your face The absence in your eyes Already thinking of something else. I hear Not looking Eyes…
Summer’s ending
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
In these end of summer days The noonday sun is just as fierce And burns the evening sky with August’s ardent flames. The sky’s a sheet of burnished blue And leaves hang limp and weary as the twilight falls. But the mornings of these end of summer days Are…
Those To Whom Evil Is Done
Originally posted on K Morris – Poet:
Much of my writing is based on the premise that evil begets evil or, as Auden so eloquently puts it, in his poem, “September 1, 1939”: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return”. (See http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/september-1-1939). I…