Charles Eastland Poems

THE ANGELS

I saw no wings
When each arrived
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SOLILOQUY AT THE WALL

Here at the strangely beautiful obsidian wall
we stand weak before the brave we remember
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MONUMENT

Eerie beauty of the swamp willow tree
Thrust up from the depths of the earth
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BREAKING HABITS

What I once believed was love forever
Time has peeled and dimmed that glow
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ZOMBIE LORE

Indulging dark lore
To adjust the eyes
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THE APPLE AND I

I walk in Autumn
and stop to admire
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Toes wiggle in the wavy sands sloshing summer moon surf
The male head turns smiling to cicadas’ wall of sound
Old sailor eyes swung by gravity pitched an easy glimpse
Down the beach to a female profile of clear fair skin bare
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Clever be the hunted
In sight and plight
Old fox and crow
Keep man in sight
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THE NAKED TRUTH

For the Shamers
The naked truth
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HOMING

Words from the heart
migrate like birds
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