a poem in my pocket

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Circle of life in world of death
as tree’s fruit feeds for purpose.
Survival served by stewardship,
sustainability, or envy, greed?
Blood is eventually shed when
values are turned upside-down;
Milked by politics, compromise,
church shocked into repentance.

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Melissa hosts dVerse poetics with ekphrastic poetry inspired by art of Marc Chagall. My poem based on his oil painting, “I and the Village”, 1911.