Edmund V. Strolis Poems

You see things one way and I another
Yet stop and ask yourself
Do you wish me well
Well let's create a shield for two
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Growing tomatos for me at least
Is not just to reap the rewards of harvest
I would not lessen the experience
By boring myself with the practical
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Honky tonk barn dance
Dusty back road under the moon
A smell in the air of sweet romance
Geese will be swimming skies soon
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Oh Michigan, winter wonderland!
Let me peel off my wet socks
Hung now steaming above the fire
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Who was it that decided your role?
Your place on earth, your reason why
When was it that you sold your dreams
We once fought dragons, you and I
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Evolution, a potter's wheel, Spinning life from a cosmic debris
Not a stairway or a puzzle, nature's siblings, the birds and bees
They hover along the ocean's floor in impossible neon dreams
Dazzling displays of fierce feathers on high, strutting, preening.
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A message in a bottle written to myself by me
Penned in sober common sense for my eyes to see
Dropped into a troubled pool of life's uncertainty
A message in a bottle that only I can read
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Somewhere, always.........


A child is born and cries out loud.
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In a world seeking recognition.
I am who I am.
In a mass of humanity in need of definition
I am who I am.
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The train has left the station, you stand flat footed in coal dust.
The ship has left the harbor and you're soaked in its frothy wake.
On the train she reads a magazine, stretches, reapplies her make up.
On the ship she teases the Cabana boy sipping Tequila in the sun.
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