Thank you to Steve Cawte of Impspired for publishing my work today.

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The Sum Total Of All Their Longing

Amid the huge awakening, after the long silence,
flowers of love give out to the world the scent of new bloom.
Be never mistaken that life is worth living.
Energies conferred upon both man and woman,
two radiant monarchs crowned with passion.
At mountain’s peak,
as gloominess turns to illumination,
the best of this twosome will stand revealed,
the sum total of all their longing,
one grand note taken onward within the song
of this pair of hearts.

In A Petri Dish
A study of past times and seasons will advance our progress
toward our making dynamic, yet logical changes.
Alterations that help emphasize our being alive,
and imbue us with keener perception
as we catch each new vision.
 
The old days remain as they were,
but gardeners with better tools grow new fruit,
spread the roots of civility,
and fulfill the sunset’s promise
of peace in our time.
 
We, the enquiring world aspirants,
on a vast scale,
because none can do it alone.
Only by building our rafts,
using trusty lathes
with unifying symmetry around their axis,
can we hope to float upon friendship’s grace,
above gentle streams of goodwill,
and only then will we finally
be able to drink from those same waters.
 
We’ll celebrate
a new examination of Earth’s petri dish,
that will reveal our close embrace
of splendid and golden days.
 
Hats off to us, then,
for exposing our true worth.