Poetic Justice

By Casey Kearns

Poetic Justice is a journey of healing from trauma. This poetry is a document of what it feels like to try and make sense of the emotional ups and downs of life in a world that bombards you with chaos and inconsistency. These works are the lesser offensive observations of what I consider to be a universal subjective observation of North American struggles and ideologies. They are a coping mechanism and a reminder that we are still growing and making progress towards a better humanity. The poems in each section relate the moments where we feel the need to succeed and rise to the challenges we face even though there is a paradoxical tension in society's demand for individual greatness at the expense of collective progress.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665542784

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Published by AuthorHouse  10/27/2021

ISBN: 978-1-6655-4279-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-4278-4 (e)

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CONTENTS

Nature

Time And Memory

Love And Loss

Learning And Perspective

Truth And Peace

Change And Action

Gratitude And Freedom

Nurture

NATURE

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Funny Sacred Water

Splashing around

Dirty water

From the ground

Dammed water

Safe and sound

Get a hose

Filter it

Fill the pool

River run

Salty sea

Rain rain come to me

Pour on the fire

Fall with desire

Drink please

So thirsty

To churn it out

A whirlpool

Tsunami

Settled into cracks

Follow the stream Down

Bathe in it

Boil it

Drown

The iceberg sails Bye

Nice and cool

Don’t cry

Snowfall is so sweet

A blanket of water to eat

A well of water is deep

The pipes they never do sleep

Hollowed out to carry

Good Ol’

Funny sacred water

Bees and Pollen

go where you’re needed

Bring a smile like Seinfeld

And til tomorrow just keep moving on

Even if all you do is make a pilgrimage

Then you have done it

To plant a seed

To grow a tree

Spectacle

For the Duke

Put on your glasses

It’s time for your classes

gather around

Make sure to astound

A murder of crows

Circling to feast

Pecking and hopping

The leftover beast

From A car on the road

APlace of Sanctuary

Space is great

Acres and lots

But hiding spots are good too

Like Anne

They protect

From invasion

Of the body

For the Water

For the Earth

That Fire is sucking up the oxygen

People are moving

But it’s a cold hard winter

Unless they realize.

A little fire would be nice

Convenient and useful.

Fire forges and warms.

Spark of a propeller.

Is mesmerizing really.

..But be careful of the smoke

It stings your eyes

Burns your throat

And settles in your lungs

Sometimes a little space

Is peace

Existential Question

The closest you can get

To create or to destroy

Is what the scientist asks

When energy transfers

Fertilizes the growth

Uses the heat

Uses the light

Uses the water

Uses the earth

To formulate

The new thing

The cycle continues

Or it ends

Until you run out of supplies

Will to I?

What is E

E is many things

All at once