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Hope Survives

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Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau

A beast roars and

People cowar but do not

Lose themselves

Young, old, rich, poor

United in stripes

Held together by faith

Trusting in unseen forces

Hope hanging on barbed wire

Stone Mason

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The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China

I built a wall around you to
keep you safe to
protect you
from imagined dangers
I built it longer –
others could look but
not touch your beauty or
feel your tenderness
could not hear the song in
your soul or taste the
lusciousness of you
I built it higher –
you withered
you grew suspicious
and held your secrets close
I built a wall around you and
you seeped out through
fissures cleft by time
until my wall crumbled
and you began to thrive

Wanderlust

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ayresrockresort.com.au
ayresrockresort.com.au

santa riding a surf board
beach volley ball played on new years day
flightless birds and
animals with pockets
gold mines and cattle ranches
a giant rock – uluru
skies coated with stars
deserts and oceans
desolate and civilized
I’ve seen it all – on a screen
and someday I may touch, smell, taste it too

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Tribute

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The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza

Who piled these stones

one upon the other with

such precision to

honor a king

Un-named men worked

their lives away to

feed the hubris of a Pharaoh

Did families mourn their

deaths – perishing under

unrelenting rays of the sun

Is this pyramid more a

tribute to detremined workers

than the diety

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At the Falls

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where else will you see tourists

in matching raincoats lining up
to peek behind a waterfall
where else will you see photographs
of daredevils in barrels
where else will you see rainbows with no rain
where else will you see people in love
holding hands shiny new rings on their fingers
where else will you see the unleashed power of a river
that carves a horseshoe out of rock

Stardust

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taken by Hubble Space Telescope
taken by Hubble Space Telescope

build me no monument

after I’m gone
sing no love songs
at my grave
write no poems
extolling my virtues
just send my ashes
into the wind to be
mixed with the cosmic
dust and one day
become a star