Poetry Duel 30

A few fine words
​(at least, only a few words!)
Between the Leaves is a compilation of poetry and short stories by booksellers published in 1998 and edited by Stuart Miller. This poem speaks to the vicissitudes of life. As we plunge into the holiday shopping season please remember all our independent booksellers across the country.
PREMISE
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PARTICIPATION
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FINALLY
At the bottom will be a piece of flash fiction, sometimes mine, sometimes not.

As I Like It #30

Untitled
Unpublished
 
My eyes are broken
Have been since birth
A mistake of genetics.
But still they see,
In their imperfect way,
The imperfect world.
The beauty, seen and unseen,
And simply passed by.
The pain, and the hope;
The cleansing and the polluting.
And they see,
In their own way,
The struggle and the triumph
Playing out innumerable ways
Every day.
Leslie's Feet - 1990
by Linda Miller-Knowlton

My feet have carried me long.
Light with hope and heavy with child.
Quickly to approaching love
And painfully away
The heels resting on beds,
Sometimes in joy
Once in a while, not.
Through the years
Through the years
Of my life.

They look tired sometimes
And sometimes pretty.
Sometimes I can see my life
​In them.

Flash Fiction

Age comes to us all, she said, in a voice barely above the sound of the dry leaves cast about by the fall winds. With it, the burden and joy of memory. Both increase, she said, with the increase in years, direct proportion, as the mathematician would say. Bask in the joy and use well the burden, for when the years stop, so will they both.
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​Unpublished, by Greg Schroeder 

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