Edmund V. Strolis Poems

Amazing how long the peace lily keeps blooming
Alone before a southern window
Impossibly white like the pond locus
In love with the late spring sun.
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You have a slice of paradise she said
Her words like hummingbirds
Fluttered lightly in my head
more sung it seems, than said
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You who are evil, a storm raging in your mind
You are not my brother
Although from a distance we may seem the same
You are not my brother
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Bright bridges spanning waterways
Lacing gripping land to land
Rivers sweeping wide and fast
Ships with purpose forge ahead
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Lost in this moment in time amid the feverish whirl
We imagine ourselves as wiser than those weathered men
Men who fell the forests, men who dammed the streams
Men who raised the cities, men with manifest dreams
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I embrace the happy ending
Wherever it is found
That is a dreamer's right you know
I free a butterfly from a web
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In the land of Elm
The Poppie people dwell
They were half the size of men
And twice the size of elves
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Tis with a grace that she carries her burden
Never asking others to lighten her load
What monumental responsibilities she has
A philosophical shepherd tending her flock
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When the cannon were silenced at last
after the last bayonet found its mark
Then the counting of loss had begun
Yet, the gain can never be measured
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Lost in the moss of this planet
Plains, tundra, jungle forest
Labels, names to classify, restrict
A library of words to pacify
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