Poetry

Too Much To Ask For?

January 25 I want a romance like a great western where the cowboy risks everything to build a life for his family and just as the cattle are ready to ride to market the floods come in the night and almost carry them all away but the wife goes into the fields with her husband…

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Thirsty

January 25 A dry river bed thirsts for a streamPebbles strewn in loose formationSwirling designs reminisce the water’s touchPretending to remember what it felt likeTo hold the water and tumble under its weightDry as dust, a forgotten river bed,Thirsting for a drop, waiting for the rain.

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First and Last

January 23 The first time I fell in loveI was slightly more than a childKnees scraped from climbing a wallSweater slips over my headHeart beating with every momentThe snap of each buttonClasps unclaspedYou said everything right The last time I fell in loveI was barely a teenDoor lock turnedReluctant brother keeping watchT-shirt around my neckLace…

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Loneliness II

January 22 There’s a certain kind of lonelinessThat’s only felt by the fish in the aquariumWho can see the family gathered round the tableThe animals in the zoo watching the parents hold hands while they stroll the baby with another one on the wayThe prisoner watching his mother approach the glass for her one hour…

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We could be heroes

January 22 We could do anything togetherBuild pyramidsConquer tyrantsPlan D-Day and win it tooPredict the weatherCure cancerWe could go to the moonBut all I want is to lie in bedAnd listen to you read Curious GeorgeWhile I counter with Doctor ZhivagoAnd look into your eyesAnd feel your smileIn my soul.

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The Slug

January 21 What is a snail without her shell?The shell that she’s chosenSo beautiful and strong.The Shell is her homeHer comfort, her protectionFrom lonely days and nightsWhere some might find herAnd try his attackShe curls inside and fends him offWith nothing more than her proactivePlans to protect herselffrom those who would hurt her,the elements,the heat…

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Eclipse

Jan 20 The moon is ever-presentEven when she hides.Waxing, waning,Waiting, wanting.Pulling the tidesalong the shoreUnder her controlBringing beautyto the nightAs she reflects the gloryOf the absent sun.Even when the EarthStands between themShe smiles wide andWaits for his return. The moon hides in shadowBut she cannot fall awayEver-present, ever-waitingWaxing and waningCloser and fartherBut never close enough…

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Order

January 20 Go.Slow.Wait for a moment whereIt is right and just. Run.Fast.To stay out of the mireThat sucks you in. Stop.Now.Before you are suspendedAnd stuck in love.

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I did not choose to love you

January 20 I did not choose to love youGuardian of the foolish inclinations of man.The one who ascertains what each guestis missing of his childhood, of delightAnd returns it to him as Loki returns chaosTo an orderly world. I did not choose to love youProtector of the inner child and adolescenceThe one who finds a…

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Feeling My Way

January 19 I’m drugged and blinded.Feeling my way along.It’s impossible to seethrough the haze.So I feel my way along.I hope I know the way. I can find it without a map,Without instructions.Can I feel my way along?Impaired I can’t reasonI don’t know how to wakeAnd know what to do.So I simply feel my way along.

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