Carey Lenehan Poems

In the years that have passed my friends,
How much, how little has changed?
New lines on our faces, grey in our hair,
spreading waists, shrunken dreams, growing families,
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Three monkeys sweat beneath the glare of studio lights.
See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil,
for the truth hurts and pain costs votes,
real honesty a road to obscurity.
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Ask yourself,

What does it take to be a ‘Terrorist'
To put cities and nations, under the fist?
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I watched the Dinosaur crawl from the bowels of the mountain.
We heard the rumble as it climbed up from the bony bed,
from the rock,
Into the cold sunlight, between the pillars of ancient Gods it ambled,
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I feel, therefore I love,
yet
what is love but a diverse melange of base ingredients,
clumsily blended by inept hearts,
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Who bears the cost of the world ‘going Green',
when saving the future might inconvene
our freedom to travel, to consume to extreme,
to create and discard plastic waste by the yard,
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In this hour
Categorized immigrants plod, hands filled with hope
in two directions, with one expression,
muted by dispossession and unsure
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Can I put the leaders of the world on trial,
Force them to climb down
from their ashened pedastals
and confess the wrongs
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I'm not inspired by love today
And with the sky a solid grey
The world of nature leaves me numb
I'm trying but the words won't come
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Summer flies by and the soft voices cry
for a mist of cool and a clear blue sky
White clouds drift and within their mist
is a safe, still place like a solitary kiss
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