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  April 2021     1 month ago

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We All Sin

We often tread where we should not.
So, if I’ve trespassed and injured you,
Come dance a jig, upon my grave;
If it gives you joy, I am ever thankful,
For your dance, will be my...

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Moment Within

So it comes: a Maelstrom as a scudding cloud; guilt
In its darkness there is light: contrasted in my sin.
There an alchemy mixing atom to molecule: show yourself
This product is tarnished with savory maliciousness
That thunder: I’m deaf. Its...

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Purged and Coupled

I have led a dreamless life.
I witnessed, lived and tolerated hate,
I witnessed, lived and tolerated love.

I have loved hate.
I have hated love.
I need to lead a dreamful...

by Kennet Benoit-Hutchins

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Mr. Cohen

Leonard, you are no longer present, nor prescient,
I still hear your baritone soothing, ever present.
the sisters did not accompany you to the tower,
they still sing your phrases, share your power.

awaiting your muse, the guitar is in tune,
...

by Kennet Benoit-Hutchins

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Mr. Cohen

Leonard, you are no longer present, nor prescient,
I still hear your baritone soothing, ever present.
the sisters did not accompany you to the tower,
they still sing your phrases, share your power.

awaiting your muse, the guitar is in tune,
...

by Kennet Benoit-Hutchins

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added 6 months ago
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thank you for reading those words.

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Doug, thanks so much for your words. Considering the past six years in North America, I think this piece speaks to the angst we have all suffered to some degree.

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thank you. I am glad that it drew you in to re-read it. That is coup for anyone who creates. Thank you once again.

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Joyce Kilmer was ever chastised for this poem, as being over simplified and old fashioned. I think, that sometimes, people try to over complicate art and forget that simple entertainment based on one's realty is oft the most appreciated - there being not much hidden within the shadows of the art viewed, read or heard. 

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The ignored, but not readily apparent

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I lived near British Columbia's Fraser River and drove it's length to go to work in Richmond (Vancouver). So during these trips these animals at various times were observed. Experiencing such eases the muse's travail. 

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Thank you. Wrote this many years ago, still relevant in my view.

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I did not list myself as a fan: seems rather egotistical. But then, perhaps we should be a fan of our own ego.

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