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Category Archives: Introductions
Intro 4: Please Live
I wish the best for
Thee, and all that life may bring.
And thy life shine bright.
And despair for thee
If thou shouldst sorely grieve me
In thy deep despair.
Intro 3: Renewal
To this, resistant
Candidly am I this day;
One will be destroyed;
And built in its place,
Something finer and wiser
Than philosophers.
Intro 2: Reality May Bite
What is real to thee
So real does it ever seem,
May be a phantom.
Take care this realness
Is not a dagger with which
To slay thine own soul
Intro 1: If Only
Could you see in Spring
what I have seen in Summer,
you might have chosen
fulfilment in life
in Fall to better yourself.
And then, looking back,
you might even see
how desolate in Winter
your life might have been,
if you had never
made that fateful decision
on one Spring morning.
Intro 9: Death-loving Peace
Perhaps I will be
Arrested for writing this.
The President could
Put on a grand show.
Maybe I could take the blame
For peace-loving death?
It should be easy.
There are killings every day.
Just pin one on me.
Intro 8: This was the Moment
The moment that I knew
That I spoke of long ago
Was in the summer.
In a stadium,
For the first time I heard it
We pledged allegiance
Many times I’d heard
Many times I’d said the words
This time, I listened.
David Emeron: Sonnets 