Lonnie Hicks Poems

'If you are really paying attention finishing well-crafted sentence can be thrilling.'

'If I see I'm falling love with one special character in my book I have to then start over-you have to love or at least respect them all to get a good book out of it.'
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Now before moving on to the next four lives, lets pause a bit to examine the Egyptian experience-a bit more in terms of its impact upon me.
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You lay now on your silver bed
flowers all around

and that seems right;
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I have an album collection
of moments
stray and deliberate;
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It was that
Grief seldom had enough of her;
it took more than its due
leaving her often times over-filled with
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The constellations' brilliant light
are your eyes shinning;
that illume comes out only at night
in my room.
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I knocked on the door of her soul
peered into its window
tried to see her there at the table
where she sits each day;
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So the he said
'Tell me capitalist
what is profit? '
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If everyone lost everything in the depression-
who did they lose it to? Who had money?

If Adam and Eve were the first people
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The most profound thing Einstein said
is that time is taffy, malleable.

And so is space.
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