Poems for a New Century
Friday, April 28, 2023
Whose Is Beauty?
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Who owns beauty, beauty shared? Museums, or collectors’ wares? The galleries who sell, or where The artist pleads his case to show? Beauty, ...
Monday, November 28, 2022
Beauty Is the Highest Good
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Beauty is the highest good Virtue is its own reward Kindness softens every heart Beauty is the highest good Beauty is as beauty does Nothing...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Requiem over a Farm Field
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You poor SOB. I shot you in the sky so clear. You weren’t old as I, By 4 or 5 months not my peer. You’re in god’s country now. Forget your o...
Monday, September 28, 2020
Looters
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The kingdom of Benin, palace of their king Looted of its treasures by the British king. One king to another: I have looted you. Keep on ...
Friday, November 15, 2019
A PAINTING IS A PAINTING
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A painting is a painting It’s not like you or me Nobody gets older No one ever sleeps. It’s a stillness made of life With me...
Friday, June 15, 2018
We who have gone in search of beauty
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We who have gone in search of beauty For ourselves, or others, on the dole Of what the muse abundantly provides With little succor, o...
Friday, May 11, 2018
The starry night
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Turn on the lights And we don't see the stars! So bright is our home. But that makes us forget When we fell in love; We were...
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