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AloneCourageousnessEmotions

Arise

ordinary alone
cold and falling
making a brief splash
glimpsing those before
symmetry sings
white light listening

moment of solitude
abating memory
the ocean deep
murmuring blue greens
together we weep
together we sing

Together we Arise

Etches Penmen
April 7, 2023
Courageousness

Decisions

 

shadows boxing,

slices of my soul,

shadows deep,

light hiding bright,

across the path,

my chosen way,

I must decide,

I must dance,

I must say.

 

 

 

I must decide.

I must Dance.

I must Say.

 

Etches Penmen
June 7, 2022
Thanks JenAcceptanceCourageousnessEmotions

Unlimited

glimpse that moment
only in arrears

when all-of-you forgot
the limits of all-of-you
the limits
of time and capacity
of wait and weight
of constraints and laws
the cellophane governance
that wraps everything , unwrapped,
and all you felt was
fresh raw unrestrained freedom
limitless creativity flowing
from head shoulders knees and toes

the unlimited happened [...]

Etches Penmen
June 1, 2022
AcceptanceCourageousnessEmotions

Easter Sacrifice

there might be another way,
I hear friends whisper,
they talk gently,
(as if a breeze might snatch the truth away),
we can we can live lives flowing over,
I start simply, by mumbling thanks for what I have this day;
a friend , some bread, some sunshine,
that [...]

Poe & Penmen
April 16, 2022
Julia Waves GoodbyeAngerCourageousnessEmotionsGriefmysogyny

Passed – Over

shunned, they smile at their friends, of convenience, their policies in shreds, their art ablaze, they bathe in the Jordan, dolling favours to their mates, postponed, ‘trust me’, ‘we will get to you later dear’, a lie so blatant, the words aflame in their mouths
Kingy Poe
January 17, 2022
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
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Some of the Poetry of Etches Penmen and Thomas Poe. Good Mates.