# Selection of Poems

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**Published on:** 2024-12-13
**Categories:** poetry, life, conflict, love, compassion, poems
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Latest: Shorter and hopefully sweeter (or bittersweet-er):Some Solacewords can bridge so much yet can not easily reach...https://paragraph.comWe Are DawnShy moon Hiding with Dwining starshttps://paragraph.xyzTo Hector"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" (John Keats)https://paragraph.xyzThe Flame is not the Fire"the flame is not the fire", poem and ai-arthttps://paragraph.comDolphins At Dawn (Off Sandy Bay)Palpitating Shiver of seahttps://paragraph.xyzUnread LinesDefeated again / By a shy / Unwritten verse...https://paragraph.comShipwreckHold fast / My love / Else drift would ...https://paragraph.comZeitgeistHold my hand / I know this hurts / The death rattle of a dying age ..https://paragraph.comLonger Poems: We Must ResistWe are the flames We carry the firehttps://paragraph.xyzThe Seagulls And The SeaShall I regurgitate those tired old tropes?https://paragraph.xyzThe Abolition of Nature - Homo DeusThe Soul, an early casualty / Of more precise instrumentation / Senescence, just another Dragon to be slayed...https://paragraph.comMy Leaves'I feel as if I'm losing all my leaves. The branches, and the wind, and the rain. I don't know what's happening anymore.' - Anthony ('The Father')https://paragraph.xyzMy God! You Lunatic!A feeling of this world breaking, like waves of the seahttps://paragraph.comRilke 'Translations'*The WatcherStale dull days, I can tell the storms are coming by the trees that rap against the worried window-panes and I hear the sound of distant things, saying that which: I cannot bear without a friend, cannot love without a sister.https://paragraph.xyzIt Is PossibleIt is possible I am trying to push through solid rock lying in hard veins, like an ore alone...https://paragraph.com*As I do not speak German these were made using a range of translation tools and my poetic reinterpretation.Canto for David (poems for Israelis and Palestinians)Canto for David: SefirahTen poems about Israel and Palestine. These poems are intended to remind us to not let our souls become hostage to whatever is hateful in this world. This Canto is dedicated to all the Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli people that struggle for justice and choose never to forget the common humanit...https://www.amazon.comChutzpahIt takes chutzpah, Writing poems To the Israelites.https://paragraph.xyzMantleEach day we watch Astonished As you grow in strength Into your blood feathershttps://paragraph.xyzKorbanAnother day Wrestling with Godhttps://paragraph.xyzThe Witching HourWho will watch the Unwatchedhttps://paragraph.xyzArk"I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth." (Genesis 6:13)https://paragraph.xyzTwenty to One"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."(Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, circa 431 B.C.E)...https://paragraph.xyzMensch & MeatWe gave bloody battle Then violent death To the meathttps://paragraph.xyzIf This Is A ManWe questioned him hard, hammered him and watched him break into a thousand pieces and shards.https://paragraph.xyzThe MastersSurely it is a journey of a thousand steps...That leads over the Mountains of Deceit Down through the Gorge of Avaricehttps://paragraph.xyzExodusDid we break Some promise Is there something That we forgot? Surely there is Meaning hidden within This wild suffering This abandonmenthttps://paragraph.xyz

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