Jacques Fleury Poems

[Excerpt from Fleury's Boston Globe featured poetry book 'Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir', which is archived at the University of Massachusetts's Healy Research Library in Boston...


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[Excerpt From Fleury's Book 'Chain Letter To America: The One Thing You Can Do To End Racism, A Collection of Essays, Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Multiculturalism', which is archived at the University of Massachusetts's Healy Research Library in Boston...


'He who looks outside dreams, he who looks inside, awakens.'
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[Originally published in Fleury's Boston Globe featured poetry book: 'Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir' & republished in 'God Anthology' by Cooch Behar Books in Cooch Behar, India

Dear God,
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Ahhh, the sweet smell of morning, coffee brewing, eggs frying, birds chirping, eagles flying…

Dawn has awakened to adopt the forsaken, those born without tongues;
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Perhaps some vexed fire breathing mythical furor will immolate the anthropomorphic earth
Already smarting from desecration and disparagement from fellow anthropoids,
In a cataclysmic Inferno although already in attrition in exchange for change,
In exchange for contrition for what and who we've wounded,
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It is that great bundle that titillates my yearnings;

That cagey combination of blood orange sunsets and lambent moons;
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