Perpetual

Santa Monica Pier, California

Mother’s love for child

Ceaseless and repetitive

As lapping sea waves

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Photo: Santa Monica Pier, California

Street life

Homeless in Chicago

City streets are home

life’s bitter, never better

and passers by kin

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Photo: A homeless person near the Chicago Riverwalk

Yearning

Greener are grasses

promises of other side

seems reality