Internal Civil War is a poetry chapbook...containing 15 poems...
Excerpt
Internal Civil War
On the battlefield of my mind,
The soldiers move in,
To overcome insanity,
It’s time for the battle to begin.
There are two forces fighting this war,
Choose your side,
And what you’re fighting for.
Armed with ambition,
To the enemy, I petition,
Surrender or be destroyed.
My soldiers are evenly deployed,
Throughout the battlefield of my mind.
The soldiers fall in line,
To salute General Know-It-All.
A gold mine,
Of intelligence wasted on this brawl.
“As you were!” He proclaims,
In this wasteland of burning flames.
This Internal Civil War,
In my head,
Shut the door,
On all the dead,
Forgotten soldiers laid to rest,
The battle won by the best.
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
