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Pro Choice

Jan 122012

Looking through my photos from Rome, I considered the fable of the Oracle at the Temple of Apollo.
My pic was a mess, but this un-cited google image features the remaining columns on the right.

Choose you this day
whom you will follow
This command
has been made before

Divine and compelling
not idle or hollow
Words that drew
fishermen ashore

Conversely

Choose you to seek
The Temple of Apollo
Enticed by a priestess
to soar

Refined and alluring,
fecund, ripe, not near fallow
Her words drew good men
through arched door

Seeking a future
improved o’er their own
They fall prey
to her charms and allure

Forgetting that choosing
to follow the oracle
Denies them
things promised before

Choose

Outside

In The Wild, Photos, Poetry 13 Responses »

Jan 112012

Photo by Kim Nelson ~ Malaga, Spain

I wondered about the challenges ~ social, emotional, physical ~ of living outside the norm, homeless, when I snapped this photo in late spring, 2011. This poem shares some of that silent pondering.

Wild hearts
beat brutal,
sentimental thoughts
aside

Cozying up
is futile
the aggressor has
his pride

Trusting predator
tolls death-knell
in this milieu
fierce and wide

Neither sullen,
angry, grudging,
just survival
tacks applied

No emotion

Inspired by Three Word Wednesday ~ Brutal, Sullen, Trust*

His Demise

Poetry 6 Responses »

Jan 102012

Sorrow by Dechobek at deviantART

Her head
bowed
told more than words
could tell.
Her mother’s heart,
dragged down
the road
to hell.
More than once.
In reality
she feels relief.
Thus her shame
holds hands
o’er face of grief.
And she weeps.

*Prompted by Poets United, Midnight Snack