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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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Love and Hate

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

As history continues to repeat itself, one is reminded of a seminal thought: "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Friday, August 12, 2022


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Love and Hate

 

Exposing Love as light,

Hate as dark,

They dance together

In the darkroom of the mind,

As the safelight of time

Keeps secure the cleansing wash of the heart.

 

How hopeful bodes the creation,

releasing heady aspiration

where courage and compassion

 might reveal a renewed world

blooming in love’s afterglow.

 

If only.



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 13, 2022
It is easy to spot the angry undertones from people who feel that their way of life somehow imperiled by expanding our love to reach the unloved and raise them up from poverty. Yet they do not know what they do. Few know that they are angry every time they open their mouths will write down their angry words. Their hate cannot be hidden behind false flattery.

Your last line reminds me of John Lennon… Imagine.

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on August 12, 2022
A very big "if only" appropriately stated at the end. The world as we know it is in far worse shape than it should be, if only.


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