Poppies Red

As poppies sway 
Upon the breeze
Warm in the summers sun
-
Their silken petals
Fluttering 
Speak
-
These words for
Everyone
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"Our colour is the blood you shed
And when the battles done
You'll learn one day that petals red
Mean wars are never won"
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Egal Bohen
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September 2008
(Photo: Magnus Manske)

Loves Gift

A
Will
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To do
-
What we would not
-
or
-
Do not that

We
-
would
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Egal Bohen

Your Tree of Life is Taking Shape

Your
Tree of life
Is taking shape
-
Its leaves made of labels
Bearing words that you spake
-
It is best that you think
Of the leaves
You attach
-
Once
Spoken
They
Hang there
-
You can't get them back

Egal Bohen

Dead Skin

The rock and stone
-
From which our cities are hewn
-
Is but dead skin
-
One must assume
--
Egal Bohen

On Earth

You
-
Should
-
Drink the bead
-
Of silver rain
-
That hangs
-After the spring shower
-
From a blade of new grass
-To understand
-
All
-
You need to know
-About your life
-
On Earth

-

Egal Bohen
May 2008

Noirmoutier (For I Like the View)

A sea
Of
Green
-
Reeds
-
In the sun
-
That ripple
-Where
The wind will run
-
A winding road
-
A distant Mill
-
That shimmers
-In the heat
-
When still
-
A turbid tide
Across the bar
-
Behind the pines
Where salt pans are
-
There Avocets
Wade
White
-On
Blue
-
To
Fishing huts
-
Bleached
-By
The light
-
Illuminated
-
Painted bright
-
TheColoured
Boats
-
Along
The shore
-
Noirmoutier
-
All this
Is
You
-
And
More

-

Egal Bohen..

Believing is Seeing

Believing is seeing
Is not what we’re taught
So our lives then remain
Chained to reason
Through thought
If the chain you can break
Light will reign
Not the dark
In a world that is born
Not of mind
But of heart

-

Egal Bohen

March 2008