Bryan Atneosen Poems

The Pendulum was a little more kind
Divvying-out time in amounts we can handle
It's behavior more akin to the hour-glass
Not a fair-weather friend like the sundial
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You've heard it, or said it, 'Old men look like owls…
full of patience and virtue…so wise'
But the similarity is actually quite shallow
A mere resemblance of the eyebrows and the eyes
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When I was 5, I had a whip-stitched cowboy’s wallet
I imagined every good-guy had the same kind too
The horse had eyes as wild as fire
With a raging spirit that only good-guys could subdue
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