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July 24, 2012
By Mollitha GOLD, Glen Head, New York
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"If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your [stuff], then you deserve it."
▼ Frank Zappa

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breathe)
sweet/heavy
cherry petals
sink in mild air
from tangled branches
to fall on clean sands and stones
patterned in symmetry’s vision
flowingfree/forgotten
the river thinks
of thought
and sighs
(breathes

© April P., Newark, DE

The author's comments:
This poem contains the essence of spring and is inspired by the vision of a Japanese garden. I drew inspiration from e.e. cummings' "hush)."
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