APRIL 7, 2023 POETRY This is a tree JUAN GONZALEZ VALDIVIESO Groundcover contributor This is a Tree Seed, Root, Leaf Weed, Wood, Beef Need, Love, Seen Lean, Full Pristine All it does is exist Yet They promptly insist On making it enlist It attempts to resist The struggle, a cyst Weaponized to lynch brothers and sisters Lethalized to make martyrs of victims Brutalized to make profits and pillage (and spew carbon emissions) Utilized to make authors of villains “Victimless” It dreams, though it witnesses It misses kids And innocence It listens in The whisperings A pilgrimage To peaceful bliss This is a Tree Shield, Shade, Life Wield blade, Knife Reap, Make, Fight Ally, Comrade Our Collective Might Hobo navigation MONKEY (JOSH L.) Groundcover contributor No home, Cold, Feeling free and bold, Weed as common as mold, Seeing egos at Delonis fold, going into fight or flight mode. If lost, Fred has advice worth more than gold; And always think twice before doing what is told For what may be sold, may be old. Fred is a famous worker at Delonis, who is known for going out of his way to help clients. 'Seeing egos at Delonis fold, going into fight and flight mode' is representative of the constant fighting over miniscule issues. I chose this topic because a lot of homeless people read the paper as it's sold by homeless and formerly homeless vendors. Most of them can closely relate to Fred's helpfulness, the constant fighting at Delonis, and other elements exclusive to the homeless experience and my poem. GROUNDCOVER NEWS 7 Lady of the night RON PAGERESKI Groundcover contributor Into the arms of Morpheus I fall to meet the dark lady of my dreams. She walks without a sound as if on gilded butterfly wings. When her bonny eye lights on me I tremble to my knees. My tongue will not utter the words in my heart. My soul overwhelmed shudders in its passion. I reach but find her gone. Morning sun peaks through dismal curtains, another day flying solo.
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