Aloha
Black lava rocks White Yellow Pink Gold flowers Grey-blue starlit skies The hum and whir of the jacuzzi jets The sound of passing cars In...
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Julissa Neely
- Dec 19, 2020
- 2 min
A California Christmas
I just learned the wise men arrived a year late It’s Ave Maria and The Carol of the Bells and the guilt and the glory of the stories we...
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Julissa Neely
- Apr 29, 2018
- 1 min
Heroes and Villains
Silent Like extras in an old western movie Covered in chaos and dust Arms entwined Tumbling down the mountainside We cannot deny it, and...
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Julissa Neely
- Aug 17, 2017
- 1 min
21st Century Savior
21st Century Messiahs: The 21st Century Messiahs: Science and technology They don’t bleed They don’t cry We get a response in...
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Julissa Neely
- Apr 20, 2017
- 1 min
Fear
Invisible bars Phantom jailor Ghosts of doom Cornered in an empty room Blinded in the sunlight Most potent when undefined Fear is a lie...
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Julissa Neely
- Jan 21, 2016
- 1 min
This Dream in the Dance Hall
Eleven sisters slip down the stairs staring down at their mothers closed eyes Cold lids, lifeless, beautiful Fallen too soon from the...
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Julissa Neely
- Jan 20, 2016
- 1 min
Cab Driver
White satin robe and a crown framed in intricately woven golden threads wrapped around your head You tell me,” it’s a Holy City we are...
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Julissa Neely
- Jan 20, 2016
- 1 min
Conversations
George and his real-life love story “When we got married we laid our cards on the table – about what we wanted for ourselves, our...
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Julissa Neely
- Jan 20, 2016
- 1 min
Conversation with Erisa
Erisa says ” All of my family members were killed. They killed everyone, burned our houses down, took our land. There is nothing to go...
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Julissa Neely
- Jan 17, 2016
- 1 min
Palm Trees
Palm trees with phantom wings whisper a lullaby Across the wind and sand and sky Grey white whirling clouds fall free mysterious and wise...
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Julissa Neely
- Jan 16, 2016
- 1 min
The Ghosts of Frank Sinatra is Singing in Palm Desert Again
The desert holds your secrets Your voice that skipped loves heartbeat Old blue eyes you were the toast of every town Still you landed...
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Julissa Neely
- Jul 23, 2015
- 1 min
King of Tango
King of the Tango I am sitting under a banyan tree…. sounds poetic but not really true, I am in Texas. I remember you so well dancing...
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