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    The Magic Mirror and other poems
    The Magic Mirror and other poems
    The Magic Mirror and other poems
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    The Magic Mirror and other poems

    By Damion Boyd

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    We live in a rare moment in history. There are sufferings and stresses that are unique to our culture today. Several major things are happening all at once. Our western culture is in the throws of a wild convulsion over philosophy. Our people are both delighted and crushed by the weight of so much technological discovery. Children are being raised in a strange environment of fear and worry...as our people drug themselves with petty distractions and powerful drugs. There are voices of hope and encouragement but all too often mixed with anger and revolution!
    This little book will give insights into that condition. It is meant to bring some light upon this darkening crisis.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDamion Boyd
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9780463825976
    The Magic Mirror and other poems
    Author

    Damion Boyd

    Boyd has experienced many unusual things. He grew up in a very large and turbulent family. His mom went blind when he was a child. His father was a battered war veteran who worked as a drill instructor in the Marines--running his family like a boot camp.at times. Having learned to cook for his family, Boyd grew up to manage restaurants. But, then went down a path of drug abuse and addiction. Finally, after turning to God for help, he overcame drug addiction and joined a Catholic monastery for 5 years. Later he left the Benedictines and got a job in a shipyard. He married a political refugee from Mexico City, is raising 3 children.His most popular books are Primal Ethics, The Curse of the Poet and Popular Misreads of Reality.He can be reached for comment at ferd453@aol.com.

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      The Magic Mirror and other poems - Damion Boyd

      The Magic Mirror

      and other poems

      Damion Boyd

      ISB  9780463825976

      Copyright 2019

      Dedication

      To Carolina: single-mom, welder, poet. Men smile upon your beauty, but I your thirst for truth. God bless you and Natalia always.

      Minor portions of this book can be reprinted without permission.

      Popcorn thoughts: You are to be encouraged. Never before, in the history of the world, have people been forced to deal with the kind of hidden stress you endure each day. It is unique to our time and, thus, makes for souls of rare beauty or rare horror.

      SHOOTING

      We live in the strangest place

      of crawling birds and flying pigs

      and trees grown

      more or less

      in a salty waste-a wilderness

      We live on shallow ground

      where children are scooped out,

      filled with straw

      then asked to carry

      huge loads around

      Yet, most of us lean

      on a wondrous dream that wasn’t,

      where the dragon floods,

      the beast still bites

      and everyone plays nice

      until someone

      doesn’t

      SERVICE PET

      Emptiness runs about the place

      In a sweater wrapped anxiety

      I scratch fear

      behind the ears

      and panic licks

      my smiling face

      Hero

      Good master, what does it take?

      Is a hero an empathetic,

      well-intentioned

      State?

      Is a hero simply someone

      with Parkinson’s

      or Aids or breast cancer?

      What is the answer?

      Is a hero merely a lucky stroke,

      a child dialing 911,

      a dog barking at smoke?

      Is a hero merely a nod and wink of lies:

      an inside joke at funeral homes

      where everyone is canonized?

      Or do heroes really creep along

      common roads unsung,

      rising up from tired neighborhoods…?

      But why do you call Me good?

      There is but One

      The Harlot’s Cup

      This great society

      no longer rots quietly in pseudo-family lots

      but, like some dying drunk in a dirty, business suit

      it pleads on the absolute brink

      for Justice!… though really for a drink.

      It is so confused.

      Our great society

      will not go quietly to Hell

      where the child dies for his mother,

      the Press interviews itself,

      and pollsters poll each other

      All the while

      smiling,

      angry too,

      holding up the foaming cup

      we are so confused.

      Mating Rituals

      Hummingbirds are Nature’s teenagers

      flying about in lightning clouds

      of scattered, erratic patterns

      of short, straight lines

      or immense, swirling whirls

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