c + H2O = we

light dances on river,
a moving marvel
sun and water make rainbow,
a beautiful illusion
like our love:
moving from a distance
yet we never touch
deeper than the surface

poem by Alice Kriel
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Simple Wish Of A Complex Person

There are too many faceless screams
and many more nameless diseases
in this grey concrete world.

I get more headaches than I can count
and too many bad news reports to doubt
this place is full of evil and hurt.

So take me somewhere flowers actually grow
and the wind smells of lawns freshly mowed.
I want to drink water without thinking of death
and cross borders without worrying about guns.
Remind me of laughter and childhood,
kiss me and make me laugh.

poem by Alice Kriel
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Elegy for a Spider (by a chronic arachnophobic)

There you sat
guarding the door
of the space
I think of as my room.
You are exotic
and foreign to my senses;
I have never seen
one such as you.
I should respect
and treasure you
for the unique creation you are.
You move like the wind
on your two cubed legs.
You make silken thread
strong enough to catch others.
You produce a chemical
lethal to those you choose
to infect it with.
But you only kill
when you must.

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poem by Alice Kriel
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