Untitled 3 by Larry Mawby
i am all kerfluffeled
the world is not right.
the sun shines,
sky is blue, but
everything feels wrogn
the metal crow
in the tree outside my window
seems to be laughing today.
i pause and now
i, too, am laughing,
though sardonically.
kerfluffeled? bah.
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Duck Eggs by Cherry K Kowitz
Duck eggs
White round beak waddles
A glorious golden day
Sunshines in my eye
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Straight Lines by Silvia Smoglian Gans
Straight lines
There are no straight lines in nature
It grows organically
Lines were created to take control
By humanity. We have fence lines
That keep people and animals
Out or in
Train lines
Airlines
Subway lines
Cruise lines
To transport people
Where we want them to go.
We have assembly lines
Movie lines
Bread lines
Bank lines
To keep everyone in their place.
How would we communicate
Music without the lines of a staff
Or thoughts and ideas if words were
Haphazardly thrown on a page
What an absurd play
If actors didn’t know their lines.
We try to put nature in line
With cherry trees and grapevines
Christmas tree and lumber farms
Irrigation lines.
We even use “as the crow flies”
To denote a straight line.
Our mind puts things in lines
Where there are none
North America directly on top
Of South.
Long ago armies marched in lines
Off to battle
To be picked off by those who
Didn’t follow those rules
And now we have enemy lines
Like the DMZ
Maybe if we all started thinking
In circles instead,
There would be no first nor last.
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For Noah by Mimi DiFrancesca
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