Eddie Roa Poems

A tower jutted out from a sun browned hill,
Seemed like miles from where I walked,
Yet its shimmer beckoned with an alluring light
Daring me on to venture the daunting climb.
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Little kernels, hard and rough
I planted them in the shade of the stone heap
They were seeds of spite sown to cling
On walls of old hurts and unforgiven wrongs
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Never have I scrimped on the love
I bestowed on you from the start.
How now you doubt my ardor?
Even the gods would have envied
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Lines

My life has been spent drawing lines
Thick and threatening, a warning to others
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Today I conspired with my heart
To erase the memories, the thoughts
Of the thrill that quivered my toes
The benign warmth that filled my breast
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(tanka)
Nuns oblivious of
Others in a secluded glade
Frolicked like children
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The star that so inspires many tonight
Has long been an emptiness in the universe
Yet it shines prominently, ever lively
Dead yet alive, I wonder how
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Today the rays of the sun lost its radiance
It flew away with the summer birds to kinder climes
The breeze no longer warmed, instead, an alien cold
Brought in by the August rain hung clammily in the air
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Driven to a corner by resident chimeras
Shivering underneath a self woven tapestry
Depicting grandiose deeds and epical conquests
The thinness of the fabric given rich texture
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He has the power to stop the flow of life,
To hold the pulse with the wave of a hand
And resume in stop and go the motion,
Humanity in suspended animation.
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