No need to send out sailing ships
nor priests hidden behind a cross.
Give jobs. They will bite their lips,
buckle under easier for a boss.
Their rivers and land for plunder,
we don’t need to own.
Waste cleanup, their blunder,
so far away from our home.
Celia Turner is a Loveland published poet in Northern Colorado Writers annual anthology, Poetry Potion and winner of the 2020 Denver Women’s Press Club Unknown Writer’s Contest. She regularly studies poetry, takes workshops and classes. The Grind online practice of a daily poem submitted to a random participating group each month has been a boon. Poetry for her is an ongoing intimate conversation she continues to have with strangers.