Elizabeth Padillo Olesen Poems

I welcome tears:
tears of joy
and tears of sorrows.
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War, war, war!
Who gives birth to war?
Is it greed for power
that craves for more and more?
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Trees under the sun,
trees, hosting man and woman
Trees, our own clean lungs!
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For saying yes to be admitted
into the hospice, she has actually
accepted the seriousness of her
health case, that she is now
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It was cold cold December when
a human heart ceased to love
but filled it with hate and evil,
when lovely innocent angels
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The sun shines before our eyes!
Darkness cannot forever steal away light!
Flowers burst out from the snow and ice
Wanting to reclaim their own right.
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A cut in the finger
heals as time moves on
by every tick of a second.

A wound in the heart
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I attended the funeral of your dear one.
I heard your loud sobbing and screaming
As the coffin of your deceased husband
was carried out from the church aisle.
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Today the world bids goodbye
to you, wanting to see your
face for the last time,
wishing to hear your
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