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Some see the dam as foolishness
Some see it is a new business
Loss of tradition improvement slow
There is little to the elusivness

The fish are long ago
We need to show
Although the future is here
We do grow but very slow

It took what is dear
we will persevere
we need to change
And we need to pioneer

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Sadness

is a constricting snake

Slithering steadily and unavoidably

In the cloaking jungle of emotions,

Steady and consistent, yet powerful and quick, crushing and twisting around your soul

Joy

Is a bounding kangaroo

Skipping quickly and with abandon

Through the lush savanna of the mind

Free and beautiful, full of energy and life.

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Peaceful
is a silverish salmon
flexing, tails back and forth
in the ocean
Sensing their predators from far away, swimming peacefully

Affectionate
is brown furry bear
catching salmon on the ocean
living in the forest
bringing the salmon home, to the clubs

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White is the absence of words on a page

Brown is the color of the boy in his grave

Taken too soon, praying for you

The words repeated phrases of pain

What do you think happens

When the boy doesn’t wake

Does his momma scream

Does his best friend simply break

I wonder I question I breathe I take

You give glue to the perfect ones

And hope the other cracks go away

And they do they always do they fall they snap sometimes they break others too

So i wonder i question i breathe i take

Why are the broken ones the kindest you'll meet?

They hurt they scream they crawl they laugh at the breaks in their souls

And they carry you on their backs until they grow tired and old.

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Agony

Is a lonesome salmon

Swimming swiftly

In the brisk cold water

Just trying to find its family

Struggle

Is an astray chinook

Moving slowly

In the fast rushing water

Trying to survive

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Maturing
Is like any animal
Opening its eyes and coming out into the world
Traveling, through a grassy plane, in the middle of the ocean, down a sidewalk street
Unsure of where it’s going, and what’s to come but is tempted to find out

Confused
Is like a lost wolf
Separated from its pack
Traveling and searching on it’s own
Confused and nervous to try new things, or to make mistakes, confused on where they fit in this world

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One person :

422 trees.

One world : seven seas.

One boat : one flower in May.

Trillions of cells : one of me.

One year : 365 days.

One predator : many prey.

DNA replication : one mutation.

Random whether it’ll make them pay.

More resources : more innovation.

A lot of money makes a good nation.

Is human health worth the economy?

8 billion people : a virus vacation.

An axe : negative a hundred trees.

A dam : the loss of most of a species.

One planet, now ridden with disease.

The Earth makes a final, desperate plea.

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Euphoria

Is a beautiful white dove

Elegant, she moves with graceful strides

Atop a high mountain peak, for all to see but few to reach.

She is the pride of the animal kingdom, but never too proud to show herself.

Satisfaction

Is a majestic lynx

He lives not in a grand longhouse, but in a hand-built shack

While all long for him, he longs for nothing more than what he has.

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Bitter

A desire to leave.

Lonely and cruel

Sadness and death

A people, their environment, their culture blown up like a spillway in Calamus.

Sweet

Memories of happiness

Adventures on the river

Friendship and young love

Learning the world, each other and themselves

The taste of pain. The taste of pleasure. Bittersweet.

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feeling
to feel another´s pain
to know why they cry from agony
to smile ear to ear alike
to be in another persons shoe´s
to not be yourself,
but to be them for a minute

Empty
a feeling of being hallow
not a care to be given about
pushing away everything and one
as if no one was their to begin with
I wait till next time to feel
if only one felt the same as I