Two poems by KJ Hannah Greenberg.
Exposition's Heart-felt Blushes (an Awdl Gywydd)
Visages gleam encouraged
Each other. Engaged by smiles,
Our faces transferred wishes.
Todays kisses lingered, our style.
Word ribbons floated past, heeding
Neither street nor field. Spring found August.
Radio buzz faded, static blanketed.
Sunlights thin stripes framed faint dust.
Yesterdays encasement gave
Present dividends. We dreamt.
Hopes breasted first sparkles exchanged,
Shimmer ranged; spices, wine, cream.
Shyness ensued, clumsy silence.
Meanwhile, concurrent glows
Remained; expositions heart-felt
Blushes offered tingling prose.
Short Decades of International Conflict
Short tens earlier, convoys built from army jeeps, NGO funding,
Medical practitioners ideals, consumers discarded survival equipment,
Melded intrigue, even party planning for large delegations, into utterly nice
Guard posts meant to keep out spokesmen schooled in pandering high virtue,
Rather than refer primary sources to truths international strictures usually permitted.
Schooners, long land locked because of would-be princes perpetrated guile,
(They owed dukes quondam distribution of land rights, hash, cashes of silent movies),
Spun to ends unmentionable even as bands tweeted sousaphone marches, ornamenting
Desert air slick with burnished musical compounds, media-peddled cultural imports, also
Less-than-playful foreign notions of valleys entitlement, settlements parameters, water sharing.
Its not the sex shops in Tel Aviv, not secular beliefs, even edgy attributes,
That attach purpose to flying nixies in keffiyehs; careful deconstruction proves,
Time and again, how convergent events calculated portrayal feeds most hungry raptors.
Decades of awaiting vessels passage beneath draw bridges, other intended institutions,
Actualizes planetary bait and hook, makes mincemeat of Galil waters, Golan plains, families.
Its crazy; national representatives blame us denizens for all parts of global trouble!
Consider our misfortunes of diction, underwrought time management, besotted corpses,
See phenomenas full array as urban ravens, limit blame to folks wearing pants, although
Elsewhere, piracys full frontal nudity robs sovereigns, produces sterile thoughts, takes life,
Satisfies crude, calculating fat cats selling children arsenic, or otherwise slaying chaste souls.
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