Breathe a little, Live a little, Yearn a little, Burn a little
Poetry
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Poem: Fragile Rainbows
They say, haven’t you learnedYour lesson? Don’t go paintingSunny rainbows on storm drenchedClouds, you will only get hurt.There are days when I envy theSoft blanketed fireside comfort and wishI could curl up next to the cat, holdingThe book everyone says is just soAmazing but I know I can’t.There are rainbows to be paintedAnd dreams to…
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Poem: My Home
Decorated by my love and imagination Home is wherever I lay my head.
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I’ll Walk Alone
I am loved, they tell me, like no one ever was,I am good, apparently, with the purest of heartsBut but but my words, they say, and yes, my attitudeToo much, too many, too loud, and too confused. I gather my shreds, my shards, my shameAnd lift up my chin, square my shoulders and thenI say…
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A white picket fence
Yes, I wanted a white picket fenceBeside a pretty little garden so sweetWith honeysuckle and rosemary and jasmine bloomsA darling little cottage full of dreams.I’d read about them in books I foundWith tales of castles, dragons and geniesI wanted those too, just as muchFabulous hidden treasures and enticing distant journeys.I didn’t know what it took…
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A Breath
In a mere breath, a moment, a blink of timeYou reduced grand love, passion and truthTo a shuffling of paper, bricks and mortar,Sweaty palms, deceptive lies, and moral character.As though eternity could be chopped up into tiny bitsAnd measured by a clock, silently tick tock.Or a tap seek to control the flow of an oceanOr…
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Poem: Picket Fence Dreams
Yes, I wanted a white picket fenceBeside a pretty little garden so sweetWith honeysuckle and rosemary and jasmine bloomsA darling little cottage full of dreams.I’d read about them in books I foundWith tales of castles, dragons and geniesI wanted those too, just as muchFabulous hidden treasures and enticing distant journeys.I didn’t know what it took…
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Poem: You know why?
I promise I’ll respect Others’ space, I won’t pry. But I won’t let anyone stop me From living my own life.
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Time – That Pious Bitch
Another year has almost passedAnother eternity went by so fastFrom who I was and what I didTo what is gone and what remains. And I learned painfully againYou can say the bravest thingsCount your virtues righteouslyConvinced you know all your sins. Time just laughs, that pious bitchRemorselessly yet once moreYou’ll do the things you did…
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Why can’t you see?
Diamond dust sparkled like rainDrifting softly over miniature lanes.Winding through rows of cozy homesWindows through which warm lights shone.Tiny dads and tinier momsSmile incessantly all day longAs little kids sedately sitEat broccoli as if they like it.Softly glowing, jewels encrustedVelvet pillow, lushly tuftedIn proudly shining golden sheenWith me as beloved cared for queen. But look,…
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Perfect Fictions
Lie to me, my love, once again,So that once more I may pretendTo be young, in love, and oh so sillyHope and dream and really believe.Hold out your hand again and vowEarnestly, passionately do not allowAny doubts, any remnants of sanity.Once more, my love, lie to me.Let us, once again, hold hands,And in sweet spring,…
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In me the river flows is set of poems that describe the complex layers of betrayal and grief to resolute determination, with calm pools of compassion through it.
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