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Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


Short Stories
· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


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· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

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Out Out Brief Candle of 2020

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

I may be insulting the Bard, but like Macbeth wanting the candle out, living through 2020 reminds one of: “Life’s but a walking shadow”. Let us hope 2021 brings some light. (Image by pinterest)

Thursday, December 31, 2020


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Out Out Brief Candle of 2020

 

We are the boy and girl toys of the Trump party

About to end the watching of time pass

Like a 5-legged spider limping across the ceiling

 

We’ve endured as if the days would last forever

Waiting for the leaves to turn

For the winter breath

To freeze the air of disappointment

While hoping for 2021’s glorious entry

 

2020’s sky has been gradually darkening

The White House silence has become deafening

While the Madame Bovary of Trumpdum

Weaves the tapestry of Mar-a Lago with black yarn

 

The Congressional Right is no exception

Like inept teachers in their fantasy classrooms

Donning dunce hats for bored listeners

Their actionless-heads bowed

But not as humble servants of the constitution

But shameful exploiters of citizen-suffering

 

Farewell chumps

Let us hope

January 5 is destined to send you

Into the streets

Thumbs raised

Not for any victory

But for a hitch home

 

Oh…

 

Here’s wishing McConnell a Sad New Year

Blow out the candle

And close the door

On your way out



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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on January 1, 2021
That "brief candle" was far from brief and may linger. May Georgia swing to the Democrats and snuff out McConnell's candle as Majority Leader.


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