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What is power?
If you caged a butterfly
just to watch
it spark
round the glass
wings like wind on silk curtains
falling from the jar
when you rose to tap
not wanting it to be dead
not wanting it to be still
so you could -
What a good book does
A good book does
wonders for
the thinkers' eyes
dialating a fools'
mind
til words strip
their assumed
overcoats
boasting
layers that rethink
the rethought
every word
every letter -
I
I am you
before I turned into me
we are us
before the breeze scatters us
and we run from our
cradles
to find our
own
sort of adventure
turning us
into I am
not you -
First Line
You usually don't see the tadpole grow legs and a tail, but it does. -
Greed
Once there was a little boy,
a king's son but no less of a brat,
squawking for every treat and every toy –
a carriage, a pudding, a cat!
The king and the queen thought their son was swell
and his greed was simply ambitious, -
Rain
It is best you wake up to it
little dancers on the roof
the spotlight hazy
windowpane highways
in the way of the rain
no sun
no heat
and puddles fill the shadows
or
torrents pound on the rooftop