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Responding
 to Artists

Alena
Guest 

Don
Kirkpatrick

Emily
Inwood

Fauna
Perkins

Jewels
Marcus

Karen
Lewis

Marylyn
Motherbear
Scott

Maureen
Eppstein


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for Artists

Alena
Deerwater

Chet
Boddy

Fran
Schwartz

Henri
Bensussen

Jan
Edwards

Janet
Ashford

Katherine
Heimann
Brown

Orah
Young

Don Kirkpatrick
"A World of Chaos"

We are born into a world of chaos and unrest

And we must bring order to the mess.

The decisions we make, the road we will take,

Whether well reasoned, thoughtful, or less, 

Will affect our lives forever.


In toddler days with minds like water,

We soak up information as ink on a blotter.

We search for identity in teen age years, 

Learning of self, amid sexual fears.


Lives move on with children and spouse.

 Laboring on jobs and fixing the house.

When work is done, we are finally retired.

But did we achieve what we aspired?


Living lives of pleasure, suffering pain,

We totter, dotter, walking with cane, 

With joints that creak, bods that leak,

Loving the sunshine, hoping for rain.


Aged Argonauts looking for meaning in life.

Searching together husband and wife. 

Speaking in mumbles with thoughts to ponder

We travel with purpose or perhaps we just wander.


Traversing the world with verve and gumption,

Our forms are flabby but minds still function.

Have we accomplished those long time goals?

Did we empty the bucket list of life’s objectives?

Have we brought order to the mess?

Debra Beck Lennox 
"Surfer"

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