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  January 2024     2 months ago

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In the Woods on a Summer Afternoon

In the Woods on a Summer Afternoon

In the woods on a summer afternoon,
Just after June, and half-full of wine,
We stumbled beneath the canopy of leaves,
To see what we might find.

Of tomorrow, of work, we barely did think,
You see, we’d...

– by Charlie McFadzen

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Deportation of the Dahlia

Deportation of the Dahlia


The winter ice bites hard,
It’s teeth digging beneath
Soil, cracked, and scarred.
But then, a miracle!
A seed, riding that winter breeze,
Floating without a sound,
Settles, in a splitting patch
of that frozen...

– by Charlie McFadzen

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One Side of Love

One Side of Love.

You loved me with your body,
Pressing those great guardians of that toothy smile
Against mine in a moment of joy,
And talking coyly in rhymes,
While those fingertips of yours,
Ran up, and down my spine.

You robbed me...

– by Charlie McFadzen

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Unlearning

Unlearning


Wooden wheels play horse drawn thunder,
Above, morse code messages fly,
White flash, red sky.
Our carriage sinks further under
A marriage of ironed out kinks,
And wayward winks
From eyes of green to eyes of brown.
Then soft...

– by Charlie McFadzen

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Armageddon

Armageddon

Children walk the streets as zombies,
And wait, already dead,
For bombs another’s father sends.
There it should end, but the unfed
Greed, the blood lust, turn all to dust
Attitude of a select few
Is all that proves true.

Smoke...

– by Charlie McFadzen

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I felt something when I read it. To think of someone or the memory of someone when doing such a basic task is both beautiful and tragic. This captures that perfectly, I love it

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thanks!!

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thank you!!

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love the poem, the last stanza is particularly fantastic

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thank you very much. Very flattering!

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thank you!!

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Thank you so much!!

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