The Cycle of Life

Past, present, future
Winter, spring, summer, and fall
The Cycle of Life

poem by Efren Petalver Carranza
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One Simple Dream

Along the road, the trees
Stand like soldiers at ease
Branches trudge like bayonets
I walk on underneath
The bracing sky
Though my eyes are naked
Collecting stars
From the depth of the universe
There is my dream

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Where Wingless Angels Go

My fourth!
And my tongue had just orbited,
around the pleats of my lips
to my marinated fingertip;
it’s Smirnoff!
Then my spy-eyes spotted a thief,
who stole this smile,
an angel without wings
in heaven of drunken me.
My last.
We left.

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Remember Me?

I was a whisper
That passed by between two hands
A promise to keep

But in slip of tongue
I'm an itch of the curious
Migrating around

Between truth and lies
I lost my identity
That no one can claim

Except this trouble
In no aisle of secrecy
A thud, I became

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Love

Love is a rose when it's still a bud
It wilts; it deteriorates
It's a day of sunrise
Or a day of sunset
It is noon of the day
When it's hot
It is a promise you expect
To give and receive
But without its symbiosis,
It becomes a-feet
It becomes a knife
It becomes a gun
It kills

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Self-Worth

A rock on the river sits
Collecting moss, tufts, and weeds
As others moved by a torrent
To unknown shore from a distant

A rock, I am, in that sense -
Of self-value - what have I missed?
Than a new flow passing by
Under the arms of its stream

Each bathes of sunrise and sunsets
Clueless mornings of muddled clouds
Or a cascade of moonrise
I'm unmoved without self-pity

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Wings of Gossip

Let no malice minds ruin your life
By those feathered-tongues full words
Where you can’t find their wings of gossips
Spread and fly high to own your shame

………………. So you can …………………
…………………. Eat well ……………………
………………….Sleep well …………………
…………………. Live well ………………….

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The Falling Feather

A feather
floating on the air
as white as a cotton
in the space of nowhere
stubbornly
hovering
off the ground
while the lost feathered-child,
from its winged-parent's
untimely death
by the act of wind-wild
that took her breath
forcefully
sending
its feather
falls
onto the girl's palm
blown with her wish…….
chirping
tweeting

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Ingredients of Life (My)

I can’t stand
The spice of hardship
The bitterness of failure
The sour of jealousy
The saltiness of losing
But the sweetness of love
Within the aroma of joy
Faith
In a dazzle of true friends
Without fishy Gossips
In a slice of intrigue
From gingerly lies
To peppery of truth
Bites of good fortune
Tastes of living well
The Mint of Dollars
True ingredients
Of life
My addiction
Of Money

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Life

Rolling and tumbling
Life’s akin to tumbleweed
It keeps on going

Until the wind stops
Its destiny is unknown
I am up your down

Alone on my own
Enjoying the world up high
I am like a bird

Soaring in the sky
Lurking life beneath my wings
It’s a pretty sight

Would it be the same
When you look at me above
If you were a tree

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