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  Three Flowers

  

  By Dragonscribe, West Lafayette, IN

  Once Three flowers fluttered Floated, flushed, flittered Into the Palm Of my hand. These were your flowers – I held them Close Until, two shone brighter Than one And I kept What was better. Once Two flowers waited In a vase for me I watered Pruned Admired them Everyday. Unt...
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  Ode to Land

  

  By Dragonscribe, West Lafayette, IN

  Of rich red earth turned in the dust, of the ancient worth of the ancient crust. From far and from wide is the array of patchwork that men till, men ride to put meat on their fork. There is dry and there’s wet; there is fertile and dead. All these have bills to be met and hungry fam...
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  Unremorseful

  

  By Dragonscribe, West Lafayette, IN

  Twice a day they feed me gruel; Always gentle, never cruel. Sometimes they stop to talk, Then shut the door and check the lock. Quiet is my mind most days Listening to the prisoner’s bays Who wish there was more time To sit idle and eat their grime. I am neither here nor there about th...
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  Latent Larry

  

  By Dragonscribe, West Lafayette, IN

  His momma called him Latent Larry. Latent Larry was a small green frog with no particular talents at all. This was why Momma Frog referred to him as latent, in the hopes he had some latent ability just waiting to burgeon. Latent Larry was daft when it came to mathematics, useless when it came to...