Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Strength has never survived on the back of lies.
It can pretend well from its beginnings.
However...
It is not comfortable with the ride,
...

If lifetimes have been spent in pretense...
There is no value for reality.
Limitations of fear, greed and conflict,
Isolates like a disease.
...

A ballet with knowledge ignored and/or forgotten...
Has become a dance recovered.
And unearthed with scientific gratitude.
A spiritualistic wisdom of ancient value,
...

'We are against him.
He proposes to redistribute the wealth.
And that is not our interests.'
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When is 'enough' understood,
To be that which it is?
When those have said they have had it...
It is doubtful it is meant,
...

The climb to the summit,
With a reaching of it done...
Is anti-climatic.
From atop peaks the valleys below,
...

Once upon a time,
When I was just a young bud growing...
On the tree of life,
Blossoming with idealism.
...

I have an idea.
Let us all pretend,
We are strangers.
...

I had been asked to give my opinion.
And expressed a reluctance to give it.
When my reluctance offended,
I went ahead to give my opinion...
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So fast and quick...
These moments of time bestowed,
Upon us to live.
Coming to briefly with us sit.
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