PKP's POEMS FOR THIS YEAR'S CHALLENGE ..
I hold the door open -until
you safely pass in your chair
dignity earned
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once whirled a ten storied library
believing could, should, inhale, mostly all...
Not nearly.
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colossal crash-you lay
limbs splayed in hallway -
a lifetime passed
until you move
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beyond hurt, shock, pain,
the minutiae of mess, rises
the magnitude of missing
You.
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I will sit with you by still waters
my breath quiet, calm,
even -
When .
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I shall be your sponge drinking in each drop
you rain, soaking never saturated
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I shall quietly seek your needs and fulfill each in anonymity -
as universal intervention
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I shall leave your spit on my face
feel the rivulet as venom recedes
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once I strode confident in all I knew
until I slipped -
into your shoe
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I trace your hands cobalt veins
fingering but a fragment of
all they held
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I leave writing desk - lock the door -
adjust mask - carry carton of food -
there
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Your ways are unfathomable and
I am but a wader in unknown depths -
wondering
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The time for stiff upper lips’ softening
is as they part in unmistakable recognition
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we sit - a circle chairs spaced wide apart
eyes bright above masks jumbling possibilities
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From cinders rose
an invisible murmuration -
floated o’er that crowd
a rumbled - Never Again
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Hate tickles the fancies of some
while others are busy planning dances -
hold on
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from grievance to gratitude
a persistent barefooted walk
mindless of gravel - eyes on
horizon
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