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In Our Image | Poem

Summer Breeze    * Summer Reciting with David Jackson on guitar: mp3 files *    Ken Peters
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In Our Image


 we built the computer
 fine tuning
 the enter key -- the delete key
 back space -- and escape
 justification -- shift
 lock -- control
 alternate
 scroll up -- scroll down
 num -- end -- pause -- break
 home  -- live chat -- anarchy
 in poetry, philosophy
 and any domain we want to create
 then spin our web
 selecting personal glitz
 graphics & even sound
 moving pictures
 an elfin tower
 to view the clouding rain and even find
 the humor in human
 the heart truly in love
 with beauty all around
 and we are part of all that beauty
 wearing this mask or that -- hiding to be found
 the lively game of hide and seek
 our childheart -- forgot in -- the hustle, bustle
 of authorities passed-on fears
 like a newborn baby in ancient cloths
 oh baby born of love
 masked for survival
 soon, o how soon
 may we come out and play?

 - Summer Breeze

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In Our Image


 we revel

 watched over by machines of infinite grace

 delicate balance of day and non-day

 calls us to our senses

 heeds us of rhythms

 that precede, maintain and survive us

 but of which we grow heedless

 in our headlong, headstrong journey

 while outside the battlements and towers 

 of the empty castle

 children play
 

- Ken Peters
 

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