Tag: renewal
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Plagiarism
This poem began as a meditation on how renewal can feel like duplication rather than change. Its theme is the tension between natural recurrence and human fatigue—the way life reissues itself even when we wish it wouldn’t.
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A Son’s Lament
It’s been over thirty-five years since I felt your motherly touch, and I no longer try to shape a garden of sorrow. Instead, I let the new grass flame, its green distinct from the old cold fire, whose embers tighten their ring with each passing year. I find joy in the crepe myrtles unfolding into…
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New New York City Skyline
In the mist, black granite, linked scales melt away—memories of Times Square,Broadway’s past.From afar, the tinkle of a music box is heard—a hopeful melody,almost a lullaby.Below-The street pleads a prayer to the broken sky—“just a haunting,gentle touch.”The morning breaks over two towers built and rebuilt-over coffee, doughnuts—old promises kept,new promisesbroken and rebroken.Yet, there is the…
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Autumn Leaves
The leaves gift an elegy to the earth below.The generous winds scatter them afar.Old berries fall for the new buds bloom.Silence yields to the rattle all around.The poetry of spring is being written, re-vised with each withered branch renewed.Silver fringed hope is pushing through.Autumn is passing with each sunbeam.