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Peace
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- Published on Friday, 11 April 2014 00:00
- Written by Nel Babitzke
Vengeance seeking monsters
aimed at
random
homes and lives.
Security
ripped apart
never to be the same again.
Just as all looks hopeless
just as tears come
the strong arm of a stranger
reaches out.
A tiny flame of comfort
begins.
Broken hearts
thank God
for all that remains
family and friends.
And just for a moment
there’s...
Rain
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 January 2013 14:40
- Written by Nel Babitzke
I remember you when it rains
Sitting on your porch we talked for hours
And when it rained you smiled
We grew quiet letting our senses take over
Breathing deeply you said, “I love the rain”
And all the world grew right, if only for the moment
Knowing time was short you still didn’t rush
Nor did you panic or fret, not that I saw
You lived each day as it came
Embracing...
Son Room
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- Published on Thursday, 01 September 2011 08:30
- Written by Kevin Stein
Freud's Swiss-army-knife opened the spectral lid
of the unconscious
with no less awe than we this door.
Here myth's kite snagged adolescent power lines,
down that string the primal electric flicking his body's switches.
This boy, his own executioner.
We of the bad back
walk among the ruins of what we've made
now unmade into his own.
Once his tractor plowed this pocked hardwood
among blocks...
