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Legally Tender

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The key of currency
is the changing of hands,
a baton passed on
in constant motion
that binds together
all its participants.

A fresh, crisp bill
is a virgin still,
between your fingers
whose anticipation
and epic journey
are yet to unfold.




 

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Thursday 31st January 2013 2:24 pm

money   tender   virgin   baton   relay   bonds   kesner   2013   journey   exchange   currency

Soft Summer Reverie

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A small expression about being on the expanse of a windswept field, whatever the season, really, but placed in the golden, summery panorama in this poem. Please enjoy!
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Amber reeds, pliant 
in the summer wind 
swaying, dancing-
 
synchronised
                     now syncopated
and back again
 
shouting then singing xanthine etudes
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Tuesday 8th January 2013 12:42 am

joy   bliss   reverie   summer   music   reed   kisses   kesner   crypticbard   poem   poet

Life is a Cuppa

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Life in a Cuppa

 

Up to a point
pliant leaves will seep
into all its waters
until the cup overflows

so much as to stain
the meticulously starched table linen.
Then we shall face with reckoning
its true substance!

 

 

 

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Wednesday 2nd January 2013 11:05 pm

cup   cuppa   existence   life   philosophy   kesner   crypticbard   excalibard   poem   tea   poetry

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