Life is a Fantasy

LIFE IS A FANTASY!

A pink-eyed rabbit, fuzzy white

Hops in bedrooms filled with fright

A child of six with much to know

Her father's basest feelings show

She knows of LOVE, only through him

He satisfies his every whim

He leaves, she wipes him

from her chin!

Her mother NEEDS to see the best

He answered her God request

To have a roof to comfort bring

A yard where all the birdies sing

Tell me how she could really know

What source for learning could she go?

Her mother regularly beaten if not worse

The cycle of violence ? a woman's curse

Conflicting visions, dependencies

One can endure many idiosyncrasies

She could not make him defendant be

Denial, avoidance? she disbelieves

The rabbit hides beneath tall trees.

At thirteen a step-grandfatha'

Finds a well-trained girl that oughta'

Do what powerful men request

Never knowing what is best

And run away she does at last

Freedom can be such a 'blast'

A rabbit's foot upon a chain

The FANTASY her 'safe' domain

How long in life must it remain?

To protect her from these men

Who always for her lips, do 'yen'

A state trooper in Tennessee Like every other man does see Her lips so full and luscious red Through the bars, not in a bed. This life men bring to little girls Even when their hair yet curls

The visions in her soul I saw

Ripped my soul - made it raw

I can understand the rage and WILL To take a life and even KILL

Just forgive and let it go The therapists say, what do THEY Know?

Einstein says "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."

Author of Diverse Druids

Columnist for The ES Press Magazine

Guest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.com

In The News:


Telegraph.co.uk

Andrew Motion: poetry for Performance
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 13 hours ago
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Release from prison inspires poetry
Inquirer.net, Philippines - 2 hours ago
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Indianapolis Star, United States - 23 hours ago
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

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E! Online

Michael Jackson's Album Of Poetry Pop
Post Chronicle - 16 hours ago
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Jalib’s poetry inspiration for youngsters
The News - International, Pakistan - 7 hours ago
The youth of the country should take inspiration from the poetry of Habib Jalib, Ahmed Faraz and Faiz Ahmed Faiz in order to develop leadership qualities in ...

Sentiments of Knaresborough told in the poetry of a charming man
Knaresborough Today, UK - 2 hours ago
By Staff Copy THESE sentiments, expressed in poetry, are the extolled perception of the Knaresborough of 1942 by one of its many distinguished sons who ...

Music, poetry capture spirit of David Hammond
Irish Times, Ireland - Aug 28, 2008
Farewells were paid in uplifting music, poetry, prayer, reminiscence and song. That was hardly surprising because, as the minister told the congregation, ...
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Washington Post

Clinton's Speech: Pragmatism, Not Poetry
Newsweek - Aug 27, 2008
But last night, Clinton delivered the savviest argument in her arsenal. That it played like a poetry was just icing on the cake.
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New York Times

THE MODERN ELEMENT
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
Kirsch is not an academic; most of the essays in “The Modern Element,” his new book on contemporary poetry, first appeared as book reviews in The New ...
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