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Best Poems From
EGAL BOHEN
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Tolerance
When we are angry at mankind
Or rave at some depravity of mind
When we would curse behaviour of a kind
To argue, rather than to view benign
It is with our own self we battle wage
When choosing not to understand, nor to engage
With that from which we isolate our self
With anger sent, to where, perhaps is needed help
Lest fearful, reason may just find the time
With tenderness, to enter in our mind.
And so it is perhaps from loss of our own face
We are so quick to shout of their disgrace
But we should not lose sight of our own sins
Though, in different colours dressed, appear they in
For is not all, of nature in this life?
The good, the bad, together, love, and strife
As nature, this is how such things will be
So it is not how loud we shout, but what we see
And seeing do, to help, to liberate
To free with tolerance, not shut the gate
That is
How it should be
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Egal Bohen
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Ferns
The images
That form our world
Appear as time
Our day unfurls
As leaves of ferns
Once tightly curled
Our time expands
To fill our space
With length
And breadth
With depth
And pace
To leave a stalk
Behind the fronds
Connected
To the mother place
That heart
From where
All fern buds grow
Not so different
You know
From the lives
Of you and me
Except the fact
Our fronds
Move free
Egal Bohen
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Communication
Speak out while you are here
For we are listening
We have not come to pass the time of day
As you might say
But wait upon your offering
Speak out while you are here
Speak out
For if your thoughts unto yourself you keep
The world may weep
And people here
And people there
And people everywhere
Will more misguided come
So do not hold your tongue
Speak out
Let us have some variation on the theme
Speak freely
Clear
Not thoughts you think we like to hear
But thoughts that sear and form and grow!
To change
Change our cluttered cramped ideas
Speak out
For that is why you are here
Egal Bohen
Read more: change poems, world poems, time poems
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Fear
Fear of death
Fear of life
Fear of truth
Fear can bite
Fear devours
Trust at sight
Fear turns logic
Into spite
Fear even doth
Turn light to night
When it upon
Your shoulder lights
Fear twists
Fear kills
Fear is the cause
Of most world ills
Love chase fear away
When fear gone
All just peace
One Day
Egal Bohen
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