noel maddock Poems

Kate is a Kiwi
Irena Estonian
Momo and Auko, from downtown Japan
Sarah is French Canadian
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You care
Not to offend
Like a signature you've practiced since childhood
Yet it still feels counterfeit
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Cupán tae gan brioscaí
Imní é
Brioscaí gan cupán tae
É sin a phlé
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One
Take the count
Stay down
Don’t mind the crowd
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Gulls keening out loneliness
An east wind turns thoughts to ice
Considering this search for meaning
As artifice
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This happiness continues
A young stream sparkling over small stones
Some turn, some hold their ground
Light catches as droplets come into their own
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Dare for the shock-quakes
Some litmus test precipitate
A frozen stop, a backward step
As ‘nay' pervades a gassing of
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This joy is a fever
Perspiring bliss droplets
As blessing that renews
The joy, like the mental and physical
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Left to his own devices
An air of chug chug communication takes
Not just precedence but overtures
Its self established way through
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He helped himself to attitude
And he fed it in his sleep
He hooned the highways of complacency
Prowled the back roads of deceit
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