Ray Lucero Poems

A tented circle on solid Earth
Hot stones, steam bring rebirth
Men honor 4 Cardinal directions
Renew Mother Earth connection
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Empathize your brother's troubles
Don’t accept his issues or habits
If you do, your own load doubles
Self-Made-Hell, you then inhabit
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Arianna, beloved Soul
Our love is most replete
My heart you do console
With you, I am complete
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My heart pretends and innuends
It means nobody needless harm
Speaks what my soul contends
To help unlock thy hidden charms
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Thou wast a strange autumn rose that,
by withering brought Winter’s wind

Having heard the song that called thee home;
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I’m not concerned about your religion
Matters not if you’re Christian, Muslim or a Jew
How you chose to worship God is your decision
Fighting over whose god is best is of no value
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What sort of person are you to say,
you want to be polished and perfect?
Then complain about being handled roughly
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She plays rhythm, he plays lead
Really strain their guitar strings
With incredible break-neck speed
Playing with passion n' with feeling
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Victory never comes from power over others
Real victory only comes from victory over self
Nothings gained from fighting your brothers’
For victory can’t be purchased “Off the shelf”
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Mystic, philosopher, scientist, genius
Terence was all this and so much more
A true pioneer of “Ethnopharmacology”
He showed us how to unlock minds door
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