GMWood

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GMWood
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  February 2022     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

A Day's Work

Gnawing clawing biting bitten
Pressing pushing smothered smitten

Smoggy foggy swirling lost
Grasping gasping inhales cost

Paying giving living out
Watching waving wading,...

by G.M. Wood

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Freedom

I didn’t ask for this
I didn’t sign up to be here
This life is a prison
This body a cell

Bars made of self-preservation
Windows blocked with dreams

We can’t get out
And those of us that do
Have never returned

What lies beyond the...

by G.M. Wood

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Shelf

I am who I am
And that’s just me
The me that is, the me that be

Tomorrow I might be different, its true
But I’ll always be me and you’ll always be you

And when winds of change come blowin’ through
The we that’s flailing and wailing—us, too...

by G.M. Wood

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Keys

Welcome to the new world
Red carpet, unfurled
Yes we've turned a new page
So bring your lives to the future
and your brains to the Stone Age

Look!
Influencer - new sage
feeding on your outrage
freedom is your new cage
full time scroller...

by G.M. Wood

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Alive

I am alive, but not like you
I do not worry when time is due

In rock, in soil, in wind and sun
My moment's here, is never done

Tolls of the bell extract no fees
I am free to enjoy the breeze

I am alive, but not like you
I do not worry...

by G.M. Wood

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