The Valley

By Lew Jones

In the valley of sickness  

                                                   Small- Pox blankets 

                                                    Free range attrition  

                                                    Trees again pink white 

                                                     Where kinder play light 

                                                      Nation call to arms 

                                                       Yell to harm 

                                                        Lands of holy dust 

                                                        Await condemnation  

                                                         School yard bullies 

                                                          Knife sharp pages 

                                                           Book reinvents the ages 

                                                            Fairy tale appendages  

                                                             Strewn heckler shelter 

                                                             Cajoled ballyhooed reviled 

                                                              Monied belied moments 

                                                               Dredged black thick oil 

                                                                Conditional love famille 

                                                                 Patriarch cast ovaries 

                                                   Flowers undress to the mushroom law 

                                                    Lost expiated - beauty’s cenotaph calls 

 Lew Jones:

Poetry is a way to use my fragmented foray of images as a narrative of some use. I am a painter and now realize that much of my poetry is like painting with images echoing words and sounds. Growing old I realize that all my new thoughts are connected to my early thoughts. Academia was a long haul good and bad. I am disorganized so College gave me structure to tie my ideas together with constructs of legitimate poesy. I am currently trying new ways of writing after releasing three books in 2022. Originality as a goal beats group acceptance for me.