(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world. All submissions are encouraged, and new creatives are sought. Submit your work for publication by contacting Editorial@NonDoc.com.)
Life composed
by James Coburn
Star flash gone
music fly by without a goodbye
zooming white doves to heaven.
Stardust streaking high
above purple wildflower sigh.
Once in a blue moon
Never more
Always above the flock
gathering white petunias
Deep red stirred with blue
below the rain
falling as tears to lift
the smallest bud to light
the expanding vibration
of Prince.
A Better Future
by James Coburn
Children born to this world
to this world.
To this humanism we have created,
Children are born.
Children learn our actions,
purchase mechanisms for violence.
Tomorrow’s children will perish
under the trigger gauged by fear,
a fear we exposed, a fear we lent.
Those who have died already,
Those who didn’t live to know
their potential, have shaped our emptiness,
have shaped our resolve to rise,
have shaped our need for each other.
Children will live remembering
who of us offered them a hand.
They will fill the void of indifference
as some succumb to an illusion of fear.
Children will know the sky.
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‘Did you wash your mouth with acid?’
purple rain
