TOM SQUITIERI - BEFORE MORE

Tom Squitieri is a three-time winner each of the Overseas Press Club and White House Correspondents’ Association awards for his work as a war correspondent. He reported from all seven continents, always writing as a voice for the voiceless, and has taken his love of storytelling to poetry, to transport readers to a dreamy universe and liberating them with a potion to happiness. He writes most of his poetry while parallel parking or walking his dogs, Topsie and Batman. His work has appeared in Ariel Chart, The Raven’s Perch, No Strings Attached, the Shanghai Review, Eskimo Pie, The Literary Word, Style Sonata and The Griffin’s Inkpot.

Before More 
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This is one of the best
Ways, to compensate
When you are not here 

Thinking and then letting
Nature take its course 

Yes, the morning is as
Lovely as always And nothing is wrong
With that
That alone, it is blessed. 

This is much more. 

Before the noise of the artificial world intrudes
The morning after the wash of rain
All clean, all perfect 

As are the thoughts
Perhaps clear ones desired, certainly
But perfect ones, for certain 

Curtains raise
Smiles are teased by thoughts
Refreshing reminders of a simple pure morning
being
Simply special
Sweeten with desire 

More and more
To raise the hope
You will appear by magic
And make this gift of time
Of uninterrupted beauty
More so wonderful 

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