EugeneOsowski

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Retired grant writer & schoolteacher. Zoom host for Cape Fear Poetry & Prose Society

  January 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 7 total

The Epiphany

The Epiphany
Between the Years 2008 and 2015, I Took
Nearly a Quarter-Million Photographs of Birds.
It Was the Most Gratifying Activity of My Life

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By early March, a pair of common sawbills were navigating the icy...

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The Poppet Doll

The Poppet Doll

The Ninth Rhyme of Jean Ami

I once abused
A common man,

A creature that I know,

And beat him till
The blood

 I shed

Caused Heaven’s tears to flow

He did not seek my grace at all -
Indeed, he cursed my name
...

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Only That the Sun Sets


Only once does the sun set -
And only then are we made
To see that this is so

We are stripped of reason, allowed to think,
But not allowed to think in ways that we know

We may turn to words later,

If there is a later -

But, for the...

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The Old Town Bells


The old town bells are ringing
In the hand that hallows day,
And I am standing on a step
Above the little cay

That slips beneath the fishing pier
And drops into the deep,
To which my mind
Has wandered

In its loves so long asleep
...

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Beyond the Ruins



The Eighth Rhyme of Jean Ami

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Written in Recollection
Of Having Experienced a Series
Of Strange Disheartening Dreams

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A river flows out of our sleep,
And randomly it winds
Along a landscape
Of events

That has...

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