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The Lessons of War
Now there are plums on the table
and a cat padding softly nearby.
Now a child awakens in a cradle
of linden branches, swaying in the breeze.
Now you touch the delicate hole
burned near your heart
and ponder the river of life
pouring into a parched earth.
Now the origins of the universe make sense.
Now the end of time is clear.
Rhonda Palmer
Now there are plums on the table
and a cat padding softly nearby.
Now a child awakens in a cradle
of linden branches, swaying in the breeze.
Now you touch the delicate hole
burned near your heart
and ponder the river of life
pouring into a parched earth.
Now the origins of the universe make sense.
Now the end of time is clear.
Rhonda Palmer
Tattoo of Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus" by Scott Corbin
| Copyright © 2008 Rhonda Palmer (poetry) All Rights Reserved. Tattoo photo previously published at tattoopoetics.wordpress.com. |
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