Tag: poetry
member name: Verie Sandborg
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March 02, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
The following poem, which relates an experience I had while jogging, is 20 years old this month. I wrote it a few days after an ice storm hit my area in March 1989. Doing vigorous exercise . . .
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January 19, 2008 01:23 PM EST --
I was inspired to write this poem after reading "The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People ," by Jonathan Schell.
Peace is not apathy,
Living numbed, . . .
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November 01, 2005 08:34 AM EST --
Let there be November--
With shadow . . .
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April 12, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
Peace
Isn't certainty
For we make our way
Through the paradox
Of living life
In the face of death.
Peace is generations after us
Beckoning us to make the world kind,
But not boring.
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April 12, 2006 01:57 PM EDT --
Peace releases
The pain of the dead
Who sigh thanks that at last
The wounds of war are over,
Healing surrounds us.
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August 29, 2005 04:31 PM EDT --
On the heels of summer,
Fall approaches.
Goldenrods are the
. . .
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April 12, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
We walk into the life ahead,
Not without fear,
For the unknown of the future
Births newnesses,
Often murky and chaotic,
Scary uncertainties
That require
Updated mores
And diplomacy skills
We've yet . . .
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April 12, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
Peace
Is win-win,
Building life
From a well-lived life,
Not from death.
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August 24, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
My starseeds, I have planted you in dark places,
The rich, black holes behind human faces,
Teeming with earthy promise and celestial fires.
Bloom, my bright ones, into happy starflowers.
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October 04, 2005 01:06 PM EDT --
Imagine --
All the paws an . . .
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October 06, 2005 11:05 AM EDT --
The way to our common worth
Is through compassion.
Small gestur . . .
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October 21, 2006 01:40 PM EDT --
Letting go
Of assumptions
That don't fit
This emerging life
Of a planetary
Consciousness,
Releasing
Unjust claims
That hold us hostage
To outworn mindsets,
Which drive us
To destroy ourselves
And . . .
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October 21, 2006 01:52 PM EDT --
The world of Peace
Encompasses every creature
Who traverses this ancient planet,
Animals and plants
Lichens and mushrooms,
Bacteria, too,
People
Who dissent with me,
Those with funny customs
And names . . .
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March 22, 2007 03:05 PM EDT --
Jet lag, a bad cold,
Make me sleepless
In the dark of 2 AM,
Poking around the house
No people sounds about,
No doors closing
Or water rushing through pipes in the wall.
My neighbors at rest.
. . .
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June 17, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
A march
Is a communal walk
Toward what?
. . .
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August 13, 2005 07:07 PM EDT --
When I walk or drive by
A person intently doing a menial job,
Hard labor or the things
. . .
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August 16, 2005 01:34 PM EDT --
At creation,
Compassia was musing
And looked within
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August 28, 2005 03:06 PM EDT --
Awaken, arouse, arise alive to life,
The life, the love, the lore and lure of our story,
The stirring story and glory of our yore,
. . .
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March 20, 2006 01:33 PM EST --
The sun returns
And warms the earth and its denizens
To stir the riot of Spring
Into being.
Tree sap begins to flow,
Preparing trees
To burst into bloom and leaf.
Wildflower roots
Juice up,
Ready . . .
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