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Stephen Parker

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Mind's Furnished Rooms

In mind's castle many furnished rooms In upper chamber, chaste virtue grooms In lower chamber, strands of civility bloom In antechamber, auxiliary dreams, visions illume

God's spark: Breath of Life

If for proof you defiantly seethe How can any living thing alone breathe We know that matter can combine But how could a puppet itself prime Gases naturally combine in internal combustion

Sword Mightier Than Spoken, Written Word

Could Christian martyrs with miraculous stories for freedom barter Roman Caesars with gladiator, beast slew their sons and daughters Did Socrates with dialectic discourse ancient beliefs divorce

Insomnia

I cannot time's fleeting pages still With my pillow's down feathery quill Into stiff tonic cannot vapid space distill Lingering shadows around hazed mind spill
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Abrasive Hawk

What gallant form from vaunted perch does alight Leaving tailwind that unassuming gawkers affright Whose tawny shadow the sun's rays does blight; Swarthy silhouette shading glint so erudite

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