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  • Fiasco

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  • The Cattle Rustlers

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    the rain last night,
    –a misty leaden shield,
    ––had all but washed
    –––away the muddy field.
    ––––the green is greener now
    –––––the sky is deeper blue
    ––––––and the labyrinthine wood
    –––––––opens up to show
    ––––––––three stricken men, weary and furtive,
    –––––––––with eyes that scan the level view,
    ––––––––––a field that beckons like a sieve
    –––––––––––to lead them to some resting pew.
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  • Dark Skies

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    image by flo222 of pixabay.com

    Every once in a while, we break off from presenting our original works to share with you something profoundly awesome out there: the dark skies. And if you have a wanderlust for the wonders of the night skies, you know that the threat of light pollution is real. The International Dark-Sky Association is trying to raise awareness of our dark skies and the threat of light pollution to this natural nighttime environment. We hope you take the time to view the videos and photos shared here, here, here and here, and explore the other links in this post, for education as much as for enjoyment.

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  • Panda Alert!

    It certainly would be a surprise to find a panda at one’s door! If you were in such a situation, what would you do? 🙂 The photo below is of Ibzy and Imzy, romancing the panda! No! Actually, they are simply playfully posing against a life-size poster of “a panda at the door” pasted on one of the walls of The Curve, a mall in Petaling Jaya, Selangor Malaysia. Finding the postered walls during one of the family’s forays to the mall was unexpected, and was certainly another surprise treat for the kids.

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  • This is not like it, the visions

     

     

    This is not like it, the visions
    of a gradeschooler
    who too willingly would have
    traded for a twitching butterfly
    his balding, if not for the tonic,
    schoolmaster:

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  • All before in the days

    all before in the days
    the easter shells off me were peeled
    and out my umbilicus
    were yanked the rainbows cold

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  • For the luck of a rover

    For the luck of a rover
    the preacher is willing to forsake
    his pulpit and the audience.
    There is no worse suffering more
    than that of a man whose words
    come bouncing back as arrows
    repelled and now are lodged
    thick in his soul, the weight
    becoming his age and surrender.

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  • We are no Methuselahs

    We are no Methuselahs
    To waste our time wasting time.

    Life is republican and death
    A silent democrat.

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  • Looking Back Into Ten Years

    Looking Back Into Ten Years is a collection of six poems
    first published in Focus Philippines magazine,
    issue of 5 April 1980.
    © SSJ 1980

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    Liquid seeping through the ground…

     

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    Might be in the deep night she came …

     
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    We are no Methuselahs … 


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    For the luck of a rover ….

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    All before in the days … 

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    This is not like it, the visions …

     

     

  • Might be in the deep night she came

    might be in the deep night she came
    while i in my long hair was dead
    (i could never be sure). like a surgeon
    must have stitched a heart pulsing red
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