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photo by Charl Vera/Pixabay
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Christmas on Mars
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Bethlehem lies far away from here
and home is a speck in the eyes of dreamers
we had to get away to get our
peace on earth
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joni sings about a river, mixing snatches of jingle bells
with the accompaniment to soften her despair
i watch you dancing among the red rocks
pretending it was a beach
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home was so long ago
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we came here to never get old
and yet, it gets so cold, sometimes
and words are the weapons that hurt
the most
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but you glow in my eyes like the milky way
a child of andromeda
like a mermaid, you float around in the air
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i remember back in california, how you’d
walk around sunset beach, with a surfboard like
gidget, forever a goddess
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funny how i had to go so far away
to find a piece of home
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Erren Kelly is a two-time Pushcart nominated poet from Boston whose work has appeared in 300 publications (print and online), including Hiram Poetry Review, Mudfish, Poetry Magazine, Ceremony, Cacti Fur, Bitterzoet, Cactus Heart, Similar Peaks, Gloom Cupboard, .and .Poetry Salzburg.
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Listen to Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra play “When the Angels Speak of Love”
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