Tag: free verse

This Summer’s Morning 

Carl Setzer

​Awoke by the rooster’s call

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p style=”font-family:"”>Train horn echoing miles to me 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Hurtling down the freeway 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Birds speaking much as they have 

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p style=”font-family:"”>For millennia uncounted 

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p style=”font-family:"”>A look into the boundaries 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Of infinity 

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I drove through this town 
Historically Floridian
Just after dusk 

Children biked past 
To safe security 
Of electric lighting 
Dinners, cleanliness
And the dreams 
Of being beloved 

Yellowish glow 
Flows from glass 
Interrupting the night’s
Dark embrace. 

I wonder what 
Such sensation 
Feels like 

Once I LISTENED to Music 

Carl Setzer

​No longer 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Do I listen deeply 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Pulling apart 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Words, lyrics 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Melody 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Harmony 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Trying so hard 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>To embrace

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>A song’s

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Soul