Don Blanding (2012 Poem In Your Pocket)

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by Sue Cowing

more lions
fewer lies

less news
more nudes

fewer stores
more stories

less real estate
more real grassland, woodland, farmland
not for sale

more adagios
fewer finales

fewer celebrities
more wild bees

please

Sue Cowing writes poetry and fiction for adults and children. She is the author of MY DOG HAS FLIES:POETRY FOR HAWAII'S KIDS, the novel YOU WILL CALL ME DROG, and an anthology of poetry and art, FIRE IN THE SEA. For some more poems, see her website.

Torch Ginger Verse

by Don Blanding

The Kings are gone and gone are kingly ways
With rituals of ancient vanished days
When shark-skinned drums throbbed thunder in the night
And royal torches flamed with crimson light
If ghosts of Kings and stately Queens return
Their sad remembering eyes will brightly burn
With joy to find a loyal flower remembers
Torch Ginger petals flare with phantom embers.

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