When I weep

it is in primal acceptance

of life

exactly as it is…

all the suffering

and

all the joy…

all the failures

and

all the successes

It is in the moments

of our greatest downfalls

that we create the visions

of what we will be

once having risen again

and readied ourselves…

for war

and

for peace…

for blood

and

for breath

© Scott Thomas Outlar

Excerpt from the book “Happy Hour Hallelujah”

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About the Author

Scott Thomas Outlar resides in the suburbs outside of Atlanta, Georgia where he spends the hours flowing and fluxing with the ever-changing currents of the Tao River while laughing at and/or weeping over life’s existential nature. He hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews can be found. His poem “Poetic Points” was nominated for Best of the Net by The Mind[less] Muse in 2015. Since beginning to submit his work in 2014, he has had more than 800 poems appear in over 200 print and/or online venues, both in the United States and internationally. He has been a weekly contributor to the Sunday Poetry Page of the social justice newsletter Dissident Voice for the past two years. Scott’s most recent chapbook “Songs of a Dissident” was released through Transcendent Zero Press.

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