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believe in love
believe in magic
believe in santa clause
believe in others
believe in yourself
believe in your dreams
if you don't who will |
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there are so many lines killing tenderness
and so many dimmed lights
not whispering of love |
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wild horses couldnt drag me away
wild wild horses we'll ride them some day
wild horses couldnt drag me away
wild wild horses we'll ride them some day |
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little soul little stray
little drifter
now where will you stay
all pale and all alone
after the way
you used to make fun of things |
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she dreams herself in books
the pages carefully marked
or dog-eared and spines bent across her lap
words roll off her half dozen pillows
to disappear beneath
covers and fingers
insects and cookie crumbs
wrapped in a cocoon of sheets
to haunt her pre-dawn thoughts
of moving away |
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this kiss
smelled of a chewed poppy stalk
red it spilled from the lips
this kiss
blossomed
in the soft hollow of the palm of hand |
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i need to be with myself
outcast and derelict i need that space
so what if i am misunderstood
that is your predilection
outdistance me now
because i need to be by myself |
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when the cool night
kisses the morning light
and pink roses weep
like guests at a wedding |
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the sea
is serene lake
the sky
bluish mantle |
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the tusks that clashed in mighty brawls
of mastodons are billiard balls
the sword of charlemagne the just
is ferric oxide known as rust
the grizzly bear whose potent hug
was feared by all is now a rug
great caesar's bust is on the shelf
and i don't feel so well myself |
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this kiss
smelled of a chewed poppy stalk
red it spilled from the lips
this kiss
blossomed
in the soft hollow of the palm of hand |
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one to gather the stars for thee
two the wind so wild and free
three the forest enchantment trees
four the hills a spot for tea
five my friends the flowers and bees
six the sunrise over the sea
last the mostest treasure be
adrift the waters you and me |
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tyger tyger burning bright
in the forests of the night
what immortal hand or eye
could frame thy fearful symmetry
in what distant deeps or skies
burnt the fire of thine eyes
on what wings dare he aspire
what the hand dare seize the fire
and what shoulder amp what art
could twist the sinews of thy heart |
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earth brings us into life
and nourishes us
earth takes us back again
birth and death are present in every moment |
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dear daugther
the dream
captured in a crevice
breached by a memory rope
making a knot to climb
the dreaming
flows unimpeded
down from the bit of release
and the thought moves
softly as doves down |
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so perfect
yet not planned
the day rumbles
to closing and
hill castle
moves toward
closure the lake
hides its turning points
let night come down
and banish color on its brow |
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there are so many lines killing tenderness
and so many dimmed lights
not whispering of love |
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when despair for the world grows in me
and i wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be
i go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water
and the great heron feeds
i come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief
i come into the presence of still water
and i feel above me the day-blind stars |
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flames licking flicking
hands and arms and feet
if we can believe it
wicker-man flicker-man
red man burning
dying the year: listen we hear
the rustling death of leaves
of feeble breath twigs and bones
rattling in the wind
grey man yearning |
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and then it was over and we took our applause
we passed the peace pipe and thought no more
about the scenes that were missing about the lines we had crossed
and we smiled at each other and knew that the moment was lost
i let you snuff out the candles i let you blow out the flame
and i knew that this time it would never be the same
the smiles you had wavered tears welled in your eyes
and i looked and i knew that this magic it was only a sign
for sunsets on empire it was only a dream
i knew that it was broken when i heard you scream |
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water
fragrance of rain
colour of dreams
quiet
heart |
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only a spray of sun
suggesting day
delilah
over her head
slipped on her dress
smooth and delicious
smeared
sweat in whispers
behind her red shadow
the city burned |
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give and take
for to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
and to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
and to both bee and flower
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy |
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two gardens the front
for beauty the back
for use sleepless now
i wander through both
and it is summer again
the long summers of youth
as i trace small paths
in a trance of growth
flowers pluck at my coat
as i bend down to help |
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above the pools above the valleys
above the mountains the woods the clouds the seas
beyond the sun beyond the ether
beyond the confines of the starry spheres
my spirit you move with agility
and like a strong swimmer who swoons in the waves
you gaily cut through the profound immensity
with an undescribable and manly delight
fly far away from these morbid miasmas
go and purify yourself in the upper air |
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gonna take a sentimental journey
gonna set my heart at ease
gonna make a sentimental journey
to renew old memories
got my bags got my reservations
spent each dime i could afford
like a child in wild anticipation
long to hear that all aboard
seven that's the time we leave at seven
i'll be waitin' up at heaven |
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a story about letting all go
a story about freedom
a story about flying away
a story about how small we are
a story about how big it is
a story about us |
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of my house
with walls
warm as unfinished dreams
i will write the most beautiful poem
of a child's hair
never to entangle itself
in my woman's hands
of a mouth that will not hang
with grim desire over my night's worry
of love blossoming |
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ever since the birds flew away from my words
and the stars went out
i don't know what to call
fear and death and love |
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she was a still shadow
her bright cloak midnight shining
her eyes shone like coals
watching unseen souls
from her theyre always hiding
a dancing shadow
flying across the floor
after the spirits chasing
theres nothing she loved more
than the spying pacing |
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await
for the minute to state
my revival date
standing by the lake
for a solo sake
time to be fully awake |
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don't dream it's over
don't dream it's over
you deserve better
you deserve better
days and nights
never ending
lights and darknesses
never ending
but don't dream it's over
while you're traveling with me |
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demons demons everywhere
and every grip a brink
demons demons everywhere
and not a stop to think |
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do not go gentle into that good night
old age should burn and rave at close of day
rage rage against the dying of the light
though wise men at their end know dark is right
because their words had forked no lightning they
do not go gentle into that good night
good men the last wave by crying how bright
their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
rage rage against the dying of the light
wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight |
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so what is love if thou wouldst know
the heart alone can tell
two minds with but a single thought
two hearts that beat as one
and whence comes love like morning bright
love comes without thy call
and how dies love a spirit bright
love never dies at all |
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shadow of the shadows
i live in the shadow of the shadows
i live and i dream in your shadows |
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it is a beauteous evening calm and free
the holy time is quiet as a nun
breathless with adoration the broad sun
is sinking down in its tranquility
the gentleness of heaven is on the sea
listen the mighty being is awake
and doth with his eternal motion make
a sound like thunder - everlastingly
dear child dear girl that walkest with me here
if thou appear untouched by solemn thought |
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for everyone you know
there will be one last moment
at which youll never see them again
most of the time
you wont even know its happening |
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i lie here thinking of you
the stain of love
is upon the world
yellow yellow yellow
it eats into the leaves
smears with saffron
the horned branched the lean
heavily
against a smooth purple sky
there is no light |
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the trembling living world
will congeal
into a perfect shape nearly
geometrical |
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as a bird soars high
in the free holding of the wind
clear of the certainty of ground
opening the imagination of wings
into the grace of emptiness
to fulfill new voyagings
may your life awaken
to the call of its freedom
as the ocean absolves itself
of the expectation of land |
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stop telling me
not to burn bridges
some bridges
are meant to be burnt
some roads are never meant
to be traveled again |
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a river seems a magic thing
a magic moving living part of the very earth itself
for it is from the soil
both from its depth and from its surface
that a river has a beginning |
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observe the wonders as they occur
around you dont claim them
feel the artistry moving through
and be silent |
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let's go back to you and i
small turns gave us the light
love between went up in flames
memorize minds fall forever young
now i know where it's the life
why can we get out of signs
don't care if we're crossing the line
catch reflections of our lives
don't tell me hoping
happiness comes from nothing |
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dreams ive had
color
splashed
with
movement
always riding oceans
of people
willowy texture when i see
them at night
drifting in streamers |
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summer set lip to earth's bosom bare
and left the flushed print in a poppy there |
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just how deep do you believe
will you bite the hand that feeds
will you chew until it bleeds
can you get up off your knees
are you brave enough to see |
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she climbed higher
up the brown trunk of the sky
the smile died
of longing upon her leaving |
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where to start
everything cracks and shakes
the air trembles with similes
no one world's better than another
the earth moans with metaphors |
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i'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling
down down down down down
i close my eyes inside my head i starfall
helpless to the ground
down down down down down oh yeah
smoke rings around me and bright sparks of fire
flash by as i go
i've got the feeling and it takes me higher
than i'll ever know
go go go go go oooh |
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slowly open your heart
for my love is deep in there
burried in the dismal abyss
of desires and worldly mundane
slowly open your heart dear
my love is waiting for you
to come out of shadows
and relish our lives |
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slaughtered
i will congeal into a unique shape
in this shape i will entice
with disabled arms
promising pleasure until nothingness dawns
giving giving away
i will be this perfect empty body |
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let it be forgotten as a flower is forgotten
forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold
let it be forgotten for ever and ever
time is a kind friend he will make us old
if anyone asks say it was forgotten
long and long ago
as a flower as a fire as a hushed footfall
in a long forgotten snow |
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i stand not still
but circling
counting out the paces
and with each turn
im rounding out
showing all my faces
and each in turn
brings home to me
just what im standing for |
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i heard you saying rightly so
turn our backs on what we most need to know
give in too fast then give in to know
once they've got you where they want you
they don't wanna know
i could leave or i could stay
it doesn't make a bit of difference any more anyway
with each and every circumstance
i lose knowledge and gain innocence
you won't find me grieving |
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the moon
will develop in the sky
like a pearl |
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birds are calling
skunks are crawling
wagging their tails for love
spring is here
whales are churning
worms are squirming
wagging their tails for love
what is this thing
of which i sing
that makes us all bewitched |
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i bless the night that nourished my heart
to set the ghosts of longing free
into the flow and figure of dream
that went to harvest from the dark
bread for the hunger no one sees
all that is eternal in me
welcome the wonder of this day
the field of brightness it creates
offering time for each thing
to arise and illuminate |
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proceed with caution
actuation is generally assumed to be
the last step after much analysis
beauty is masked in first intention
delicate like ribbons of steel
sunset a reflection of sunrise
the promise of tomorrow fleeting hope
is written on flash paper
juggled in the hands of a clown
the actuary sleeps amid statistical blackmail |
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if you were to leave today
don't say good bye to me
but instead say i will see you later
because the idea of you leaving for good
makes me want to cry |
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a color is more than just a color
dressed myself in green
to lose myself amongst the world
to be like everyone else
to be numb
that lasted a few days
felt like no one cared
that was the whole idea
to be selflessly green
my sister she thinks me a demon |
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and in the naked light i saw
ten thousand people maybe more
people talking without speaking
people hearing without listening
people writing songs that voices never share
no one dare
disturb the sound of silence |
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it is blue-butterfly day here in spring
and with these sky-flakes down in flurry on flurry
there is more unmixed color on the wing
than flowers will show for days unless they hurry
but these are flowers that fly and all but sing
and now from having ridden out desire
they lie closed over in the wind and cling
where wheels have freshly sliced the april mire |
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the world is so small
the world is just two stories tall
you are on the upper one
you breathe heavily
nearby stands eternity
dark
i take the steps laboriously
walking in a long shirt
i wipe off my mouth
with a warm damp hand |
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forever let it be
the emblem to a holy cause
the banner of the free
and never from its guardian height
let it by man be driven
but let it float forever there
beneath the smiles of heaven |
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with a leg i push the universe away
pondering a bit
swinging on a thread
of unspecified wants |
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my life is cold and dark and dreary
it rains and the wind is never weary
my thoughts still cling to the mouldering past
but the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast
and the days are dark and dreary |
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the wound was cause to wash the gushing blood that rained
in sticking gobs
and places pooled
as puddles formed
to camouflage the mess like red decks
of a frigate in the age of sail
swaths of mercurochrome
painting the good
as well
as swabbing the tear |
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the flower that smiles today
tomorrow dies
all that we wish to stay
tempts and then flies
what is this world's delight
lightning that mocks the night
brief even as bright |
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press your mouth to the melody
hair to the scent
so many colors
the sky has trembled
to keep us from falling asleep |
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in the darkness before the dawn
they climbed the track from the villages
beneath the hill to the lands rim
seated on straw bales on creaking carts
in the mornings chill in expectation of a sight
to remember all their lives
waiting for the ending of the night
quietly they sat regretting warm beds until the growing light
falling on field and hedge awoke the birds
greeting with song the rising sun |
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i'll paint you a rainbow to hang on the wall
to brighten your heart when the grey shadows fall
on a canvas of joy outlasting the years
with a soft brush of sweetness to dry all your tears
i'll paint you a rainbow with colors of smiles
that glow with sincerity over the miles
on a palette of words i will tenderly blend
tones into treasures of sunlight and wind
i'll paint you a rainbow that reaches so wide
your sights and your sorrows will vanish inside |
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like absence spun out like a sudden bell
the sea shares out the heart's own sound
raining dusking on a lone coast
night falls without doubts
and the lugubrious blue of its shipwrecked banners
fills with a stridency of silver planets |
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on a cold autumn day
my heart is drenched in wine
as i walk in fields of red |
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you're only just a dream boat
sailing in my hand
you swim my secret oceans
of coral blue and red
your smell is incense burning
your touch is silken yet
it reaches through my skin
and moving from within |
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i'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places
that this heart of mine embraces all day through
in that small cafe the park across the way
the children's carousel the chestnut trees the wishing well
i'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day
in everything that's light and gay
i'll always think of you that way
i'll find you in the mornin' sun
and when the night is new
i'll be looking at the moon |
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i've got something in my pocket
i like to put it on my face
i keep it very close to me
in a very special place
i know that you can guess it
it won't take a long long while
i always take it out and put it on
i've something in my pocket
that's what the big girls say
i'll have a pocket of my own |
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the soul looks out through wide blue eyes
so questioningly into mine
that my tormented soul replies
oh little body do not die
you hold the soul that talks to me
although our conversation be
as wordless as the windy sky
so looked my father at the last
right in my soul before he died
though words we spoke went heedless past |
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his eyelids droop his head falls low
his old eyes cloud with dreams
the sun upon all things that grow
falls in sleepy streams |
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the creations for us to admire and preserve
the lake and wildlife for you to observe
after the visit you will surely succumb
to the beauty and peace that has become
to be untouched as intended to be
the land and lake surrounding for all to see
the fluffy white clouds lined in silver
the dark blue skies that he can only deliver
the brilliant bright sunsets for us to admire
behind the rolling green mountains of desire |
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we shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time |
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i have written this day down in my heart
as the sweetest day in the season
from all of the others i've set it apart
but i will not tell you the reason
that is my secret - i must not tell
but the skies are soft and tender
and never before i know full well
was the earth so full of splendour
i sing at my labour the whole day long
and my heart is as light as a feather |
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come dear children let us away
down and away below
now my brothers call from the bay
now the great winds shoreward blow
now the salt tides seaward flow
now the wild white horses play
champ and chafe and toss in the spray
children dear let us away
this way this way |
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shall earth no more inspire thee
thou lonely dreamer now
since passion may not fire thee
shall nature cease to bow
then let my winds caress thee
thy comrade let me be
since nought beside can bless thee
return and dwell with me |
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i lay my cheek down on
cool green blades
and watch flickering sunlight move
through disks of wild parsley
inhale spring sap perfume the
scent hangs sweet and redolent from
cottonwood buds heavy
like a cloud of old memories
i listen to a swishing
crinoline gesture in the distance |
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with callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon
in the coldest winds
i discovered
my soul's
warmest fireplace
in the roughness
of his stubble
the tenderest love |
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love by that loosened hair
well now i know
where the lost lilith went
so long ago
love by those starry eyes
i understand
how the sea-maidens lure
mortals from land
love by that welling laugh
joy claims his own |
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youth is like spring
an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes
autumn is the mellower season
and what we lose in flowers
we more than gain in fruits |
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evening sun descending
teach me when life is ending
night shall pass and i like you
shall rise again where life is new
teach me sun descending |
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hes often barred from office
and coughing works to keep it satisfied
oh how many times its found its time
interrupted by the flow
of events gone by
and naturally i sigh
when i see them
flitter out the window
i look up through venetian blinds
to his office |
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where i have lost i softer tread
i sow sweet flower from garden bed
i pause above that vanished head
and mourn |
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there is the sudden silence of the crowd
above a player not moving on the field
and the silence of the orchid
the silence of the falling vase
before it strikes the floor
the silence of the belt when it is not striking the child
the stillness of the cup and the water in it
the silence of the moon
and the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun |
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on the edge of passing
there are no kisses
there are no smells
or colors
on the edge of passing
the narrow light darkens
and so clearly
the land ends - the pain |
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love note
to the me
i am becoming
new challenges
i am confronting
and what
is this to me
hiding
in contemplation
a reevaluation |
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until in the time
of no rain you hear
beneath the dry wind's
commotion in the trees
the sound of flowing
water among the rocks
a stream unheard before
and you are where
breathing is prayer |
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i have been one acquainted with the night
i have walked out in rain - and back in rain
i have outwalked the furthest city light
i have looked down the saddest city lane
i have passed by the watchman on his beat
and dropped my eyes unwilling to explain
i have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
when far away an interrupted cry
came over houses from another street
but not to call me back or say good-bye |
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a rosebud by my early walk
adown a corn-enclosed bawk
sae gently bent its thorny stalk
all on a-dewy morning
ere twice the shades o' dawn are fled
in a' its crimson glory spread
and drooping rich the dewy head
it scents the early morning
within the bush her covert nest
a little linnet fondly prest |
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the time will come
when with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome |
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i'm turning out the light
now that you're leaving
to see things black and white
now that you're leaving
to kill you in the dark
to give my last remark
i'll stay up tonight
now that you're leaving
i'm running backwards on a train
all is coming back to me again |