"As I wander through the marketplace of Athens I marvel at all the things I can do without." - Socrates

The Pine

by Däanlea and Kevin Alfred Strom

AUTHOR’S NOTE:

THIS POEM is really two poems by two authors.

The first part was sent to me by an aspiring new poet named Däanlea, whose work really deserves to be published in print one day.

The second part is my response.

This piece begins in a personal vein, [...]

"Our new movement, which is not a party, and which could even be termed an anti-party, is neither of the Left nor of the Right." - José Antonio Primo de Rivera

To Those I Love

by Kevin Alfred Strom

(composed while forcibly separated from my family and loved ones and imprisoned by the U.S. government on false charges)

THEY PUT ME in a prison They tried to take my soul They sullied my good name My destruction was their goal

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"Love is a game that two can play and both win." - Eva Gabor

To My Autistic Son Alfred

by Kevin Alfred Strom (composed while forcibly separated from my family and imprisoned by the U.S. government on false charges; because of his disability, Alfred is incapable of understanding why his Daddy did not see him for almost two years)

WHERE DID YOU come from, lost soul child? Where oh where, my darling – Dark [...]