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They grow up so slow, don't they ;
In oldentimes when men were men by twelve
And women were mother's much much younger
Back then, they grew up fast.
These days, people talk about these days;
The age of self importance:
Like the speed of things is threatening
But go on standing, staring, watching, gawking
The oldentimes, it seems have passed on;
The children are children by choice
And the babies are babied much much longer
They grow up slow, don't they
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Nexus, Haiku Version
Your chest's tide pulls me, a
gravity spell that whispers
of stars, and moonlit secrets.
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Wildwomen
I borrowed a horse last Thursday to hunt the Wildwoman. He was tall and painted hungry; She’d borrowed time, then disappeared.
I could not bend to pick the rocks. The horse kept kicking dusty circles. ‘Round the barn, the Wildwoman crept in boots that used to be mine.
We didn’t see Her till the last three barrels, where She sprouted from the grit between my fingers to silence shouting hands.
Winding down sore muscles, drawing ankles to earth, She traced my body before darting up my spine - straight line from heels, to hips, to Crown.
And in the half-breath the horse spied hay and tried to throw me from the saddle, She
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Story Time
Where honey bees blend into sunsets
They sit in a crooked circle
Writing non-love poems
Writing stories
Writing the lives of the living they never knew
As documents or poems or journal entries
Encoded with flavors only the pen knows
And curiously
They pass those words down the line
They read
They think
And pass the papers back, then begin again
With a new dream, speckled with what they know now
Like nascent freckles in the wrinkles of a sun-worn face.
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I dunno - I always hear people say how fast kids grow up and think.... no. they really don't.
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Quite right, my friend.
Whenever I read Romeo and Juliet that is a thought strikes me, as Juliet fell in love, got married, consummated said marriage, and died at the age of 13 years old.
Whenever I read Romeo and Juliet that is a thought strikes me, as Juliet fell in love, got married, consummated said marriage, and died at the age of 13 years old.