Poem: Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man

July 20, 2023
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Spiritual Land/Spiritless Man

How ironic that this deeply spiritual land
is inhabited by a spiritless man
who stares at the sufferers with pomposity
and fails to acknowledge the luminosity
of troubadours and poet-prophet-kings
and thus is not privy to the healing they bring.

— Damian Balassone

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