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Life is a Fantasy
LIFE IS A FANTASY!
A pink-eyed rabbit, fuzzy white
Hops in bedrooms filled with fright
A child of six with much to know
Her father's basest feelings show
She knows of LOVE, only through him
He satisfies his every whim
He leaves, she wipes him
from her chin!
Her mother NEEDS to see the best
He answered her God request
To have a roof to comfort bring
A yard where all the birdies sing
Tell me how she could really know
What source for learning could she go?
Her mother regularly beaten if not worse
The cycle of violence ? a woman's curse
Conflicting visions, dependencies
One can endure many idiosyncrasies
She could not make him defendant be
Denial, avoidance? she disbelieves
The rabbit hides beneath tall trees.
At thirteen a step-grandfatha'
Finds a well-trained girl that oughta'
Do what powerful men request
Never knowing what is best
And run away she does at last
Freedom can be such a 'blast'
A rabbit's foot upon a chain
The FANTASY her 'safe' domain
How long in life must it remain?
To protect her from these men
Who always for her lips, do 'yen'
A state trooper in Tennessee Like every other man does see Her lips so full and luscious red Through the bars, not in a bed. This life men bring to little girls Even when their hair yet curls
The visions in her soul I saw
Ripped my soul - made it raw
I can understand the rage and WILL To take a life and even KILL
Just forgive and let it go The therapists say, what do THEY Know?
Einstein says "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Guest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.com
MarketWatch - Sep 5, 2008
Currently, the poet resides in Los Angeles, writing and translating poetry and stories. To request a complimentary paperback review copy, ...
Independent, UK - 1 hour ago
... book's outstanding poems, includes the couplet "you'd fixed it/ For the powers-that-be up there to pay me/ To do a poetry reading with Kathleen Jamie". ...
The Age, Australia - Sep 5, 2008
Perhaps Anna Akhmatova did come among us last weekend, through the medium of other writers reading her poetry, in both Russian and English. ...
Expressindia.com, India - 22 hours ago
Thiruvananthapuram, September 5: Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday turned to poetry to take a dig at Left parties, the UPA government’s erstwhile ...
Norwich Bulletin, CT - 19 hours ago
Visionary poetry looks far beyond the normal range of a human life. It takes hold of the imagination with a kind of hypnotic language that induces a mental ...
guardian.co.uk, UK - Sep 5, 2008
... We Need to Talk about Kevin and Browning's poetry, due to the regrettable presence of "My Last Duchess", withdrawn from school libraries. ...
Economic Times, India - Sep 5, 2008
But the evening was not all about poetry. Sibal was forced to talk about politics. "We (politicians) too are sensitive. We too have feelings like any other ...
Hindu
Hindu, India - 5 hours ago
But somehow, even after the other faculties degenerated, sensitivity to poetry remained unimpaired. Santan recounts how they visited Nissim at the nursing ...
Lines in memoriam Hindu
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The Advertiser, UK - 16 hours ago
The project, called the Poetry Treatment, was due to be launched yesterday . On display at the launch, were some of the poems and the smart, ...
Of poems and prisons Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
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The Salinas Californian, CA - 12 hours ago
This initiative, in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, celebrates the nation's historic poetry sites. Both Carmel poet Robinson Jeffers and Salinas ...
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