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Rayn Roberts

Rayn Roberts

Poetry, Poets, Writing, Readings, Etc.

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August 3, 2020Rayn Roberts

La Feria de Abril, Sevilla, España

  What the old know the young don’t believe the wiles of youth are not lost on the wise: as a busy farmer sees a fox does not call his dog or get a gun the old allow freedom, turn a blind eye The young wonder is life always like this, the elders say, not […]

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July 20, 2020July 24, 2020Rayn Roberts

Has It Really Come to This?

The story has been told and retold:  Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]

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July 6, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

The Voice

If I spoke from the heart and you could hear You could ride the sound Back to the beginning and see you who you are If I spoke from the heart, my tears would be a river Running to the sea An ocean of sweetest water If I spoke from the heart, my joyful laughter […]

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July 5, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

From Where I Stand I See

decade to decade everything is falling apart everything is coming together if I sit down stay in one place I move forward if I move forward walk on two legs I stay in one place if I hold on keep what I have I lose it if I let go what I hold it comes […]

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June 29, 2020July 16, 2020Rayn Roberts

Gwisin at Seoraksan

An hour in autumn– alone yet not I saw a stretch of centuries, people, forms I’d been that made me what I am today– sad for what fights to spite death but cannot win pushing against a tide of joy and pain—      Listen, the last cicada singing in a twisted pine chanting the past and […]

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July 14, 2017July 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

What is There?

What is there in the end but forgiveness And forgiving one’s self. What is regret when we cannot go back To change anything? We only move forward To more change, the slow breakdown Of the body, aging and death There is that, of course– The quicker one can do it the better: Live so the […]

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