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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.27-30.24 “Can't I Just Feel Normally?"

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Morning blush matching Sunrise staccato stumbling Word over word spoken Slumbering, feeling awoken

Why does the meadowlark southward flee? Is there a threat no one else can see? Why does my heart beat thusly, so? Is there a reason for it to glow?

Midday midsummer dreaming Tree-topped sap flow beaming Brighter fighter, son, burn lighter Heart burst, starburst – I admire

Bloodrush heart beat Stay cool in this heat Birds fly; I try You speak; I sigh

Why can’t I decipher the border Where friendship and more find their order What is love reciprocated? A koan to master, thought meditated

Tall grows the wild grass, defiant to all Greener than I, just as thick comes to fall Paler when thirst is not quenched Yet in sorrow is sure to be drenchede

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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.24.24 “Summer Break"

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This summer is silent I cannot hear the hum of home Electrical wires overhead are absent Only aeroplanes trailing vapor Spreading paper near and far But not this Sunday on my drive Not this summer of my life No cicada swarm here has awoken Not one sound is to be spoken I cannot hear the hum of home I can’t reach you upon my phone The line is dead and so are you This summer is silent How I miss you

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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.21.24 “Love is a Weapon you Wield"

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Sun-burnt or heart hurt I’m blushing at your shirt Is this conversation or a flirt Same direction walking, laughs blurt – out

Am I juggling or bumbling summer-sun colored lout Will I be resolute and stout Should summer end, days end, this bend end – pout Shout to the skies I will not be without – them

Fidgeting at my hem Unsure of what or when How did this blossom come from the stem? Too much sun and tears to grow and condemn – me

Reddish hue, on cue, turned sunrise-suprise to see Yellow-gold in the wind, amber waves of grain – free Flitted heart, start again, in time for this July-ibation, imbibation by the sea Only a fool will miss-step these stairs, prepares better than me – anyways

Faster than the autumn leaf falls in windswept sways Swifter than the passing days Glowing brighter than the highest praise What foolish, flippant heart to succumb in simplest ways

Heart of mine, so in your swift dissension into agonies and throes Never change your mind nor ways, I’ll burden all your woes

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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.20.24 "Imagination"

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Infinite, the realms of imaginations That exist with our own domains Masters of those creations – Our creations – What breath we allow to be exhaled Beauty is found In the honest And raw And ugly And magical And most frightful Of ways

These realms, nor I, needn’t be pretty To be considered beautiful

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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.19.24 “Music-Box-Monkey"

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My words to you Appear profound And I the speaker Am allowed to sound

Intelligence is often in the eye Not the mind Not that I mind Attention of that kind

How long will I linger at your side An amusement What brevity or relief Does my company impart to have come and went

I will amuse Bemuse even you And am I just a flight of flavor and fancy? To be tasted, listened, glistened – upon command and cue

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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.16.24 “Lord of Light?"

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Hot sun Shogun Lord of body And light

Cool breeze Through trees Shadow cast haughty Over all within sight

No clouds Allowed Castle of sticks shoddy Beaten to death to prove might

Sunburn Heart yearn Blush cheeks flush naughty Oh, how the summer takes flight

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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.10.24 “Poison Garden Prosper"

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Prosperity blooms in the garden Like a poison most medicinal indeed In response to the world; don’t harden Look to your neighbor in times of need

Next to hemlock is hope, just as deadly Take respite and smell the roses Noxious as they are, supposes– That something else is at work amongst this medley

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor When mixing toxins to make tea If you steep it right you will be– Okay. And if you fail, speak with Inquisitor

What else will you plant next to nightshade Cast about like the scattered sunset shadows

Wade through the floodgate waters you weep – for the garden is as it goes

Yours – don’t you know(s)

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Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.25.24 “Waiting Over and Over Again"

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Waiting, wasting Copy-pasting the same sentence Over again, over again Over again Ad nauseum sick of, marketing– Causing a racket – racketeering Profiteering off the masses Say “Messiah” in the message –not a missive will be missed Holey are the records and the relics And once over’d again are the workers Wasting up and down for food For thought, so we thought Fought for the day Ad hominen, Homo Sapien Homunculus work-from-home In the eucre-rest past-five o’clock Rest, for the west never sleeps Never weeps for its followers Devout in their labour, their eyes On their neighbor Wishing over again, over again Over again How they wish they were where Over where the grass is The glass ceiling is Greener, a little less meaner Where they’re seen or heard apart from – The herd Over again wishing Time is over, again Looking, crooking, hooking their bit of green Wishing for someone else’s world Where they’ll be where the grass is greener Than the verdant dance-trance of their own plants Greener than farther fall and fallacies Scribbled for their future plans Copy-pasted Over again, over again Over, again