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Herbalist’s World
life’s garden demands
parsley sage rosemary thyme
our salad days’ needs
too bland be our daily meal
without season’s seasonings
The poem and artwork are from a recently completed book, Embracing The Moon, which consists of 25 poems in tanka form paired with digital artworks by the author. Email: ken@stange.com - Website gallery of artwork: kenstange.com/gallery
Peace in complexity,
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because her heart
Desirée, Trichoglossus haematodus, Green-Naped Rainbow Lorikeet,
a parrot smaller than a crow
because her heart is similar in shape to mine
is similar in construction to mine
because her heart beats 500 times a minute
pumps seven times more blood than mine
holding her in my hands her heartbeat
knocks against my palms gently as rain
because there are [...]
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A Place of Promise
In April,
we are ancient river
rising high,
hosting islands
like poems
of gull-grey ice -
a melting life force
moved
by memories
of clear-blue waters,
swift silver-canoes;
for we are sustenance
to the wild muddy-cattails
that pen life
on time’s shifting shore,
a place of promise
for cranes, cormorants,
and small yellow perch…
but we are fragile poets
raising spring -
warmed [...]
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