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Tranquility

a breeze,
that barely causes candle flame to flutter,
nor fireside flame to quiver,
a breeze that has dawdled its way
across a warm salty ocean,
absorbing and wrapping itself in a perfume of life living,

a breeze that enfolds around like a blanket,
touching and sultry but, hardly [...]

Thomas Poe
December 7, 2021
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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
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Balance

teeter-totter,
see-saw,
scales of justice,
eyes of the guiltless look on,
and implore,

the liberal conservative republican,
full of moral certitude,
calls for more freedom of choice,
with the arrogance of a have,
speaking for the have-nots,
left-right-out,

run run far away from the [...]

Thomas Poe
December 1, 2021
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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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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.