PAD DAY – 24 6 Tell it to the _________poems .....

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6 Tell it to the ____  poems

Tell it to the mountain and all that jazz

You might as well

tell it to the towering

mountain – over the

hills – singing all that

j

  a

    z

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some have proclaimed

far greater announcements

resonating across the land

go tell it to the mountain

climb the peak and stand

in a harbored crag – as

wildflowers fill the cracks

in your soul

and solid stone

smiles

~

Tell it to your child

Look deep into


that child’s eyes


and tell your truth

rather than your


well-intentioned lies

~

Aw heck – tell it to the judge

No sense in foolin

with it – shuffling up,

down, sideways 

and around

tell it to the wispy 

shimmered robe

who will set you

 in the waiting

 gaping 

opened 

ground

~

Go tell it! 

It doesn’t much matter

to whom, or where or

when, if injustice

fouls your space

GO TELL IT!

shout it

blast it

there

and

then !

 ~

Go Tell It To The Sea

it will not much matter

if you sob and wail and cry

a torrent of your falling tears

will inform the aquamarine seas

as they roll and roil in shimmer under

the spreading cerulean sky

so drop your tears in

buckets or stingily one

by one by one

tis what forms

the sea from

the beginning

shall continue

far past when

you are gone

and done

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Tell it to the child sitting alone

tell the child it does not matter

though right now it feels so far from small

the teasers, tattlers and torturers shall become

the steel forged for more important battles – the child

so armoured will fight them someday all

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Tell it to the short boy in the eighth grade

the girls who looked down on you

who giggle behind soft taloned hands

who run past you at your locker and in the ball-field stands

the girls who huff, and wiggle and slide their eyes over you and by

will be guffawed at by high-school boys who will send them to their rooms to cry….

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