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Catholic, high-functioning autistic, husband, almost father, table-top role-player, sometimes baker

  March 2022     11 months ago

Submitted Poems 114 total

How It Escaped Our Attention

When a whole being
births into your hands
still you see your hands
no matter how unworldly
the beauty of the child

Then the universe of words
works past cosmology
to a useful name a handle
in English unlike the Indigenous
...

– by HEID E. ERDRICH

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added 2 years ago
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Egg

In this kingdom
the sun never sets;
under the pale oval
of the sky
there seems no way in
or out,
and though there is a sea here
there is no tide.

For the egg itself
is a moon
glowing faintly
in the galaxy of the barn,
safe...

– by Linda Pastan

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added 2 years ago
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Fall

Crows, crows, crows, crows
then the slow flapaway over the hill
and the dead oak is...

– by ED OCHESTER

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Cold Blooded Creatures

Man, the egregious egoist,
(In mystery the twig is bent,)
Imagines, by some mental twist,
That he alone is sentient

Of the intolerable load
Which on all living creatures lies,
Nor stoops to pity in the toad
The speechless sorrow of its...

– by Elinor Wylie

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added 2 years ago
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The Little Rock 9

It is Monday, I am twelve years old,
summer still feel like summer to me...


  Ernest Green


My elementary school principal was white
I only had one white teacher, she was named
after the juice the...

– by Afaa Michael Weaver

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added 2 years ago
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The letters are missing!

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I don't know. I just look for poems online and post them. Fill up the repository. It is a nice poem, though.

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