Jason Summers Poems

I decided to go to a party with friends I've known for years
And the first thing I noticed was a tub full of beers.
I grew up believing I could hold my own with a few
But a few became too many as the length of the party drew.
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As the wind wisps through your let down hair
A voice calls out to startle your mare.
'I am the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery,
Listen to me for this will be history.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation,
More like 'Families Broken by Interrogation.'
In courts we are said to be lying while under oath.
The government agents say their own lying truth.
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They grew up living next door
Playing together and spending the night to sleep-over.
Their childhood memories are remembered days of the past
Through the continued habits now the memories still last.
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A Mother's love is stronger than any bough,
And we know how boughs can break.
She can turn tears into a smile,
Because a Mother knows the love it takes.
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If you think of pain which is extreme
This poem is worse than any you dream.
There was a man who loved everyone and Him
Who spared our lives to carry no sin.
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Compassionate thoughts and feelings of emptiness
Are almost always expressed in sadness, grief, or distress.
But in conflict of life and death there is a pause
For life is a common interest, for death there is no cause.
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Breathe me the cool air of the wind,
Stop the pollution, let the waters run clean again.
Remove the smog, industrial hogs,
Corrosion of the Grand Canyon
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The year of indigenous people, nineteen ninety-three,
Still we are struggling to be free.
Government money for our reservations getting lost in the political confusion,
Telling us we're receiving it through their mixed-up delusions.
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The days that have past I've been in wonder.
Does she like me, hear me, or think I'm a blunder?
I think to myself, 'she has her own life and I'm not included.'
With the rain dripping down as my feelings become diluted.
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