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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

  June 2022     1 year 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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