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There are many influences in ones life. Being an American, Born in the 1960's Being an educated working class urban New Yorker . living through many changes . Being a Teacher in urban schools, Being an artist and naturalist. many movements have inspired me . Italian neorealism, film noir , cubism, impressionism, surrealism Samuel Becket ,Arthur Miller,Brecht Theater , jazz ,folk ,classical music . naturalist and urban poets Carl Sandburg, ee Cummings, Jeffers, Writers like Kurt Vonnegut, JR Tolkien, James Baldwin,George Orwell, Huxley, Camus, Carl Sagan, Rachel Carson, Carl Rogers, Erich Fromm, and many others. All these and life's experiences comes through my work I'm sure

Joined: June 2022 Last seen: 19 days ago

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silent winds Silent winds Within the silence of silent winds and the blowing of the wind wind Grounded in winters solace The mind turns as the earth Through eternal mystery unfolding The sound of rain falling from a silent sky Remembering becomes... – *by Ronald Tirino*	14 Views added 2 years ago	Rating
Open to a recieving sun Open to a recieving sun Softly swaying grass bending in the gentle wind Between the lonely blades of green and the stars above descend into living of the grass roots that sleep beneath the waking times in the fragile music of our... – *by Ronald Tirino*	8 Views added 2 years ago	Rating
Tender is the air Tender is the air Tender as the air around us Song of winds that shake The barley from its grain Open quietly to the winter of our lives Drying leaves swirl under naked foot Shadows rise Which none could see Singing in the winds of time... – *by Ronald Tirino*	7 Views added 2 years ago	Rating
Pilmigrages to ourselves Pilmigrages to ourselves From earth to leaf to branch Going in its coming It forms its curves on edge of time And ghostly shadows in the air That shed their lives anew Like leaves in fall We watch their dance in the place of our... – *by Ronald Tirino*	3 Views added 2 years ago	Rating
Through the substance of our lives Through the substance of our lives Awake in our sleep we sleep to wake in our dreams Through the substance of our lives Slow moving Hands tilted toward the filtered light Reveal deep set lines and shadows that speak with age potted... – *by Ronald Tirino*	5 Views added 2 years ago	Rating

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	reminded me of twilight episode number 12 looks just like me . Many thoghts come to mind with topic thanks 7 months ago	View
	love the theme .it's a poem you want to read over again .Each time gain something new .Thanks 7 months ago	View
	poems about the world we live in and present both inspire and keep us alert .thanks 7 months ago	View
	Poem made me think of Kintsugi, also known as kintsukuroi, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The method is similar to the maki-e technique. It treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. more » 7 months ago	View
	Its good to see poems that relate to urban areas and express what is going on there ,thanks 7 months ago	View
	Sad but tender and moving imagery 7 months ago	View
	Sometimes the most simple things are the beautiful ,As it is with rain 7 months ago	View
	Enjoyed poem brought images and thought of ancient tales and modern cosmos discoveries from Hubble and the WEB .Poetry has depth in that of the poem itself and the response it congers from reader 7 months ago	View
	Made me think of living fossil horseshoe crabs which are still with us today 7 months ago	View
	The lotus and the mud and the compost in the flower ,ephemeral inter being of things .Imagine a walk amid the Marigolds 7 months ago	View
	I really enjoy e.e. Cummings poetry . More than the sum of it's parts .Getting to the soul of the thing itself . 7 months ago	View
	Nice use of analogous metaphors draws you in . enjoyed subtle theme and tones . 7 months ago	View
	very relevant poem for today maybe even a eulogy for glaciers as we are loosing them so fast 7 months ago	View
	Enjoyed poem .Reminiscent to me of zen or Taoist theme .Well formed structure each stanza has own aspect related to one before thanks 7 months ago	View
	starting introduction first then closer looking brings deeper understanding .liked line echoing sounds break the silence 7 months ago	View

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