Tag: humanity
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The Good People
So in Eagle Ridge Emergency, fell off my bike, may be my ribs, not my point. So went through the routine: check in, blood pressure check, answer questions, etc. Anyway, busy, no chairs, so I found a place to stand. The staff are patient and kind and everyone is also waiting patiently. But then I […]
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It’s About Love
if you love you cannot hate if you love you cannot deny your humanity nor the humanity of others if you love you cannot ignore those in need if you love you will be open to the plight of our mother, Earth, in her time of need if you love comes it does, two-fold, so […]
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A Quixotic Joust
veiled in sinew, bone frequent, pitched battles bloodless coups of a quavering faculty, while a calmed façade, outwardly betrays, deflects, abuts a rolling boil ensconced nestled away, safe from a reckoning world photo and poem © by DC Lessoway
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Rise
flittering glints on skin hushed, aside blood’s rush in the ears, munch of gravel echoing bird song reoxygenated, dewy air ambrosial mix of sap, earth enlivening, invigorating weaving, entwining, mingling freeing the mind to meander the unvarying past the rousing moment the differing future in this, reflection, contemplation embrace the undetermined to trounce change’s dread […]
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Of Robust Armour
this, I wish of brass made indefatigable matter void of grief, ache digging at my bones perpetually smiling, finding the light in all things joyful in company than in solitude, broadening that interdependence upon one another making us greater, stronger beings generating ramparts against brutal tsunamis life doles out photo and poem © by DC Lessoway […]
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Given to Forever
that pseudo immortality, that scarcity of appreciation that knack for grand displays, of waking hours spent, unfettered, in ironical worry for the bygone oblivious to a coming end in the great eternal commonality photo and poem © by DC Lessoway
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A Venerable Confidante
once we were same molten, bombarded brimming potential asunder torn from chaos born you know my secrets once my dizzying vista seldom kept you in my eye, now a mournful watch I keep surely, steadily, slowly further still, your grasp, waning you know my fears eons pass, how you were ever-shifting, vexed crimson now a […]
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Aloof Bystander
companion, confidant unchanging, secretive an ever-moving clock ruling tide, mood alike her unchanging façade remains dispassionate photo and poem © 2016 by DC Lessoway
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Waken to History
first light bird-song quiet, on stony boulevards Roma first full day 9,000 kilometers from mundane, work-a-day safety’s precinct here, chock-a-block chronicle upon saga via emperor or tyrant aside the holy see silent, stony narrative speaks beneath foot behind glass, illuminating brutality of faith photo and poem (c) by DC Lessoway
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