Ravensong Poetry And Writing Blog by Donovan Baldwin

By: Donovan Baldwin

I need not cadillacs, or caviar, or crowns.

Wealth to me is time and chance
To choose my words and thoughts
Pasting them upon some pristine page,
On days I choose to make the effort.

Power is to have another
Read and understand
Those words I have written
Taking some of it away.

Fame is to toss out
Some small thought or song
Or simile or metaphor
Picked up by someone else forever.

Food is cheese and bread,
Slice of meat, bowl of salad,
Simple lettuce and tomato,
With a cold glass of beer or wine.

Peace is sleeping each night
Waking to sun or rain,
But not to hatred or death,
Of friend or stranger.

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By Donovan Baldwin

Blow wind, and drive away
Demons of earth and air.
They do confuse the minds of men,
And bring nearer the hot breath of death.

I seek not for myself,
Nor teach my children,
A hatred for "them",
Especially based only
On the fact that "they"
Live there and we live here,
Fearing us as we fear them.

I would offer out my hand,
And speak the word for "friend",
If "they" would/could do the same.

But, "they" don't trust me,
Although "they" have never met me.

My leaders say that "they" are evil,
Their leaders say the same of me.
I believe most are no more "evil",
Than you and I.

Perhaps the "leaders",
Theirs and mine,
Should go somewhere, and,
Have their own war,
And leave "us" out of it.

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