Wilted Flower

She was a wilted flower
When I first saw her
Standing against the wall

She became a movie star
A glamorous, breathtaking
Movie star

I saw her yesterday
She is a wilted flower once more

Hoping
Praying
Dreaming
That someday
She will bloom again

She was a wilted flower
When I first saw her

poem by Gary Revel
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What's Your Excuse

Blackness moved up
Without a warning
Nor a hint

Not to my face
But to my back it came

Creeping
Leaping
Driving

Plunging me
Into the utter
Depths of despair

Into a nightmare of fear and
Terror I had never thought possible

Changing me
Making me

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poem by Gary Revel
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How Green

How green is your valley
How lush is your path to your garden of love
Is it overshadowed by the cross of persecution

How green is your memory
Is it poverty and ruin choked with weeds of despair
Is it blossoms of peace and pleasures
Beyond which there is none to compare

How green is your table
Is it filled with delights of wicked consumption
Is it dangled on meat from the hook in your lair
From that insidious malicious sinister dare

Money
How green
How green
How green
How green is your tomorrow
How green is your eternity

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poem by Gary Revel
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