Zachary Zuccaro Poems

Prejudice


I don't like him or her or them
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Much emphasis is placed on knowledge and memory,
intelligence is worshipped and information is mankind's god.
Yet these too are trivial and shall turn to dust.
People cling to memories yet these too are mortal
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Discard anxiety, sorrow, and despair,
accept that which is and was,
but strive to shape what will be
into something better.
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The Trinity is as a flame
which is one entity
yet may be divided into multiple entities,
several flames,
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A hydrangea grows by the pond
and sprinkles its petals over the ground.

The sparrow sings on a maple tree
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When I am dead
and maggots have consumed my corpse.

When one hundred,
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Silhouettes

Two men
walk through the desert
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Do not think that any person
has true understanding of death or Heaven -
do not believe Heaven is but an empty promise
of eternal luxury and ease.
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To become independent of the body
and free from its will and whims
its limitations and its needs.
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A young girl
is sent by God
to save her country from despair.
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