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Coffee Cup Poem no.86

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My Cat, the Killer

It appears that she is floating,
not a limb pressing down on the coolCCP 86
grass beneath four feather-paws
as she tenses her entire body, pulling
with stored energy and killing motive
as the butterfly is in her sights.

Her golden tuffs of fur
are the only part visibly moving,
as she imperceptibly shifts weight
and twitches with anticipation–
her victim flutters unknowingly, absent
minded and innocent to the threat.

In a second she pounces entrapping
the butterfly in an instant
but she does not kill it–not then,
because it is far more amusing as a toy.
To watch it flutter inches and fall,
all within her control, never going too far
and all the while the butterfly
is suffering as silently as its life
passed, too quiet for the human ear,
beating its wings, trying to
catch the last of the summer wind.

Coffee Cup Poem no.69

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Theories On the Nature of Tragedy: A Working Mule

The devil likes to keep a mule,
And nudge it with a stick
Or lash it with a whip.

When it stumbles, this mule,
Loses its balance, and trips
It becomes the devil’s trick

For it does not strike, but runs into
And that is how tragedy begins,
The sneaky little thing it is.

This mule, tragedy, has no life of its own,
A devil’s slave with poor falling aim
Moving when a red beast yanks its chain

With no real motivation to harm
It unsuspectingly causes pain,
A sad creature with tight reins.

But when god uses it as his muscle
The mule becomes a weapon, carefully aimed–
Two sides of the very same coin.

Coffee Cup Poem no.15

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A poem for Sundays, because it is one of my favorite days. And, no, I don’t feel like creating a better title.

Sundays


On slow, soundless Sundays hours fade,
and tea grows cold and still
while someone wishes a smile to appear
through book pages, from under thick blankets.
Sundays look over the world
with Eeyore eyes and turned down lips,
loneliness sits in the lines of her face.

Sometimes words of the head
betray those of the heart…
conjuring scenarios of what may be,
pastimes, passing the time sipping stale tea,
but wishing for a glass of red wine,
to muffle the musings of the mind.

A good day for overthinking, Sundays,
wake memories of what was,
and visions of what will come.

Tea always steeps slow in the still of Sundays,
while distant church bells break the silence,
bursting from the bleak, light hours,
shaking yesterday’s tears off blades and branches,
and ringing the last hours, begging for a week anew.

Coffee Cup Poem no.3

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When God Skips Fall, I Yearn for Spring
You should open the window
reach out and catch
the floating goose-down-feather buds
of the dogwood.
Its stunted branches
grow limp under
everything atoned
everything lost.
Be careful not to eat
its crimson-ripe berries
even though they are
the crown of life.
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