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Appreciative

and how to think it out

a door slammed closed.
so long ago,
one wonders whether it is even locked?
or it and all behind it have simply,
been quietly gathering dust.
this door, it has been ignored,
slipping out of mind and [...]

Etches Penmen
December 2, 2021
AcceptanceAngerEmotionsPeace

The Tranquility Pool

always the pool,
poetry, essays, and movies
say the word ‘tranquil’,
and there’s a ubiquitous bloody pool,
involved,
and lurking deep,
below, the green and blue,
smoothness (‘like glass’ for goodness sake)
lies the crackeny-beast,
driving the evil new fascist submarine,
under,
the blackness of moonless night,
manufacturing surface pure reflection,
protection from,
the evil lying [...]

Etches Penmen
December 2, 2021
Windy ViewCourageousnessEmotions

A view?

You can’t live on a view!
but, perhaps with a wish,
surely a view can live in you?
not so much a dwelling within,
but looking out from a heart,
through eyes,
to skies and stars.

beyond myself,
I stand and stare,
as the world expands quietly,
my skin reaching out hugging [...]

Etches Penmen
November 4, 2021
EmotionsLustmysogyny

Frenzy

fez ruled snit,
fast feverish mad crazed.

seen as a friend,
seen as a good guy,
seen a few nights ago,
but today the tide has turned,
and there is marmalade on the streets,
today there is awareness in some faces,
faces that [...]

Etches Penmen
July 15, 2021
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Some of the Poetry of Etches Penmen and Thomas Poe. Good Mates.