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Siskiyou Writers’ Club: two poems by Jess Ward that were chosen as favorites at the October meeting

Paradox
What place is new when it’s every place you’ve been?   
Who do you talk to when you can’t find a friend?  


What can you do when it’s everything you’ve done?
How can you laugh without any fun?   


What can you sing without any song?
What can you fix when nothing is wrong?


What is courage without fear?
Who can cry and not shed a tear?


Who can feel love when it’s not shared?
Who acknowledges achievement if no one cared? 


What can you find when nothing is lost?
What is value without any cost?


What can be borrowed that no one will lend?
What is a beginning without any end? 

By Jess w. Ward


When you talk to yourself, is your voice too loud

Can you be alone while standing in a crowd?
When you talk to yourself, is your voice too loud?

Can you look in wonder at a night sky full of stars? 
And see the hopeless futility of our endless wars.

When you’re accused with only deceit, lies, and treachery?
Can you maintain your moral integrity?  

Can you see infinity in a hand full of sand?
Have you ever wondered why God created man? 

Have you ever wondered within yourself?
Why man-kinds greatest enemy is himself?

If you have, sit and talk with me.

If you haven’t then just leave me be.

By Jess W. Ward

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