10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind |
Heaven on earth, the earthly tulips briefly brighten the front row, once obscured (last summer) by two full maples that stood guard, shaded your now full sun-soaked home, the pre-heating oven. Blasted cool rooms darkened, as windows in full lock down curtain against a powerful, impervious orb. Your shelter begs you not to look out at those fading blooms in eternal heat. Shred the arboretum and compost giants of health that abutted my half grown tree, now exposed (thanks to you), and sweat each year in loose garment if you dare. Your lush green, stridently layered by mow, pities my dandelion jungle and patched earth. Will you ever dare walk on those lush blades, flattened under foot? When I toss a blanket beneath my black locust in shade it affords, with summer lemonade swirling? The only canopy you see are wayward clouds with, hopeful, rain. Don't kill trees for petulant flowers ever again or reach over the border fence to trim my hedges. 7.2.20 7.3.20 How many lines was that? Screw it. 2020 WDC Heart Throb Poet: Shadows And Light Contest (21 awards), 1st Place Poems: 1st Place, Taboo Words: Best of Rising Stars: 2018 2012 2017 2010 2009 North Star Winner Just to name a few. I don't pad my Community Recognition, as everything I earn by trying to prove my worth as a writer and supporter of writers who seek self-improvement, as I do. My ego modestly accepts any privilege offered as acknowledgement of my effort to be a virtuous author foremost.
Critically unacclaimed, as I see it. I won a few battles, but not this war.
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