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  • Frantic (#3 PouncePunk25)

    though certain events press us to be frantic

    and the marketplace is busy with worry

    remember this is always so

    and likewise there is always an antidote at hand

    let the winter season that rests the field rest your mind

    since you must walk with care, pay even closer attention

    each step its own journey, a remarkable gift

    stop for a moment, let your eyes gaze with new sight

    open your ears to hear without immediate judgement

    feel how you occupy that particular space

    you might find the fence post or street corner

    changed because you changed

    in such small ways do we transform the world

    peace by peace by peace

  • Crystalline ( #2 PouncePunk25)

    and let the rain fall from the sky

    run down my face to hide my tears

    these so concentrate with sorrow

    they drop to the ground as glistening gems

    each one shot through with silken filaments

    fissures of experienced compassion

    that fractured open my heart’s facade

    these rise around me a crystalline mountain

    shining to return light wherever it be found

    and the flowing streams around this calm

    radiance dancing from surface to surface

    even the weighted lowering clouds gain relief

    their burden thereby transformed

  • Fight (Pouncepunk 25)

    I was never to his war

    bloodied land, rubbled homes, shrieking wounded

    but he brought it home to me upon my doorstep

    the ugly desperation of those who returned

    so haunted by not dying that death trailed them

    whispering constantly names of the killed

    it’s only the wind I told him again and again

    he could not hear me through the endless moan

    until one night I learned how heavy a gun can be

    when you remove it from a limp hand

    how futile comfort offered seemed

    against the stark reality of a bullet casing

    I never heard the shot

    how do I say he lived, when he never left the fight?