Zane Gilley

It hung there, dormant stirred by only wind,
A barely twisting nod, the greeting swing.
And armed by one with ivy loose entwined,
It torqued awaiting, someone or something.
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Renewed sunlight rebirthing green array,
Above, below - The heated life is brought
To vibrant hues in March, April, and May
Upon which youthful eyes in verdance caught.
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Angular tightening Nova
of strings swarming
on the horizon
of knotting.
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Fires of Olympia
dormant
by smoky torrents
of acridity.
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Dark clouds glitter
through the cold
soaked schools of glimmering
pensiveness broken only by fears
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Humidity
drips
over the fathomed cliff
with dew meeting on the points
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The high commanded march - a fearful sight!
His patriotic youth with soiled salute
And twisted fortune's wheel - Blood, Pure, and Night -
The self consuming drakes beneath jackboot.
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He shot a round through the hand of God
To save the world from all the infidels,
But what he got was violence and jihad,
And left the earth quite full of living hells.
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Four score were gathered, tested by anthrax.
They, after bombs exploded, died awhile -
Mistaken reasonings to stay the pax.
Near fifty years did pass before secured
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The silver laid aside the golden trays,
Exotic culinary art prepared
By master chef - His food, the highest praise!
The feast of kings and men, with nothing spared!
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A hell of an argument,
the discovery of other,
of betrayal, of pain,
of the anxiety coming
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Time scales these walls as
unbleached cotton cascades
over toothless crystal.
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The tip-toed snowfall mocks
combustible desires
darkened by unsprung weather.
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Did you ever
take the time to

STOP

and watch people?
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When johns with shriveled egos come to find
That paid relationships oft further bring
Despair and lonely apathy to mind,
The pricks of love administer their sting.
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A knock on wood is but the courtesy
When police whims suffice to cast their sights
To enter homes with all impunity
Of violated men's defensive rights.
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When each transaction must be written down,
Recorded for perusal by the law,
When people become known by what they own,
Instead of showing others who they are,
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The blood gets curdled, paralyzed by stripe
With feelings delicately played and soothed
By televising horrors - mindless tripe
Enacted by the witless and untoothed.
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When Jefferson his Declaration wrote,
Encircled by the fellowship of friends,
Decrying tyrannies of bloody coat,
The freest men used violence for amends.
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The earth conceals itself from all desires,
As what a man pursues, another flees.
What soothes one's troubled soul, can minds inspire -
Ascending heights or drag them to their knees.
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