Marshall E Gass Poems

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1.
To Find Yourself, Lose Yourself

inside the cavernous mystery
that exists within you.
Self-reflect and remain silent
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2.
Social Media

the links go viral in the wondrous wasteland
people notice blue lettering
take journeys in rivulets of meaning
down pages pumping information
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3.
The Accountant

All he could see were numbers
that reached out and grabbed taxes
and takes, invoices and expenditures.
He could not see explanations of delight
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4.
Black Power

Slice the city into two parts
rub salt into open wounds
break down the armoury, shell out the sickles
and spikes and bamboo arrows dipped
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5.
Conflict

Both seamless in their searching
the inside and outside
my mind is bitter and bold
should I or should I not?
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6.
Mini Golf

The manicured lawn behaves splendidly all summer
never pushing its way through the throngs
of flower beds and razor cut edges.
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7.
The Parish Priest

For a man who held fire in his homilies
and set the souls aflame with hell
he was gentle at the apse, smiling, smiling
warm hands and crisp cuffs and collars
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8.
Mountains And Valleys

You leave Haast in the velvet valley where the bras
hung just before, dangling breasts of mountains
rearing their nipples of snow at your watching.
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9.
Black Eagle Dream

Black and controlled in the corner
eyes piercing the arc of reason
talons out twitching
staring emphatically back
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10.
Belly-Button

the entire universe entered through this
umbilical chord
strumming in tune
its lifeblood housed
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