BU3
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Submitted Poems 3 total

Beware the Road

Cruel this road:
pointing and promising,
lying and leading nowhere.
Bruised, bleeding feet
slog in monotonous ruts
and never suspicion the
insanity. Throngs gorge
at its endless tables
and starve, drink
from countless cups
and cough dust....

– by ted s owens

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In Violent Fields

In violet fields,
no eye is on the sparrow.
It flits amidst the rage of sling and arrow.
And though to it no refuge calls, still,
It beats its wing until to earth it falls a breathless thing.
How frail a thread holds hope above the fray.
Too...

– by ted s owens

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Desperation Before Death

In violent fields, no eye is on the sparrow.
It flits amidst the rage of sling and arrow.
And though to it, no refuge calls,
Still, it beats its wing until to earth it falls a breathless thing.
How frail a thread holds hope above the fray.
Too...

– by ted s owens

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What a sweet little flower in such a broken needy world.

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ludy_b, I enjoy your poems. This one triggered many haunting images of Vietnam. The bodies lying along the roadsides are scenes you never forget. Wow! This write hit hard for me.

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It never ceases to amaze me how some things are so deep down and so far away that it takes the power of poetry to summon them. to the light. Prose will never have this ability. EXCELLENT, ludy-b

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