Poetic Journeys & Exceptions

Exceptions

Destiny binds its roots
in the writhing soul
of our own imperfections

Winter Green

Winter Green: photograph – Ilona Rapp

its wisdom too complex
to parse, its delicate leaves
lashed by winds of greed

Its branches hacked bare
in peremptory spasms
of cold calculations

Rigid matrixes,
eschewing integrity
in the nefarious logic

of profits and loss,
until the solution to
generating Peace
is a fatal exception

and hope forms
the single thread
which anchors us
to eternity.

©Ilona Rapp 2017 All Rights Reserved

IA Initiate by John D Winston An Imaginative and Provocative Young Adult Novel

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Many Layers of Truth

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A Snapshot of a Moment

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Warm Recollections of City Sidewalks

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Double Spaces to end a thought… To use or not to use, that is the question.

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Song for Solace: Unentitled Roar

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Read the fine print! Writing Competitions, Stress and Relief (or “if it can go wrong, it probably will!”) by Ilona Rapp 02 23 15

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AUTHOR BRANDING: Semantics, Contrivances, Contradictions and Empowerment Part I: Deconstruction and Reconstructing (AUTHOR OR WRITER)by Ilona Rapp 02 22 15

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Solace Born of Winter

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