Figures

I find no validation
or explicit explanation
for unfounded fascination
leading only to frustration
nor any known equation
for this bittersweet sensation
just the powerful persuasion
of my own imagination.

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Dream Catchers

they meet each night
and dance til dawn
two dreamers
entwined
lips barely touching
whispering
hungering
to be kissed
but dreams
are all they know
They part each morning
awaiting dusk
longing
aching
as they wait
for reality to subside
and the dream
to begin
once again.

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Swan Song

The Silver Swan

The silver Swan, who living had no Note,
when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat.
Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,
thus sang her first and last, and sang no more:
“Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes!
“More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.”

– Orlando Gibbons

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Purgatory

The winter’s freeze has stripped the trees at last
One lonesome leaf left dangling on the limb
And not unlike the days of winters past
Each day is prey to Mother Nature’s whim
The garden that was once a scape of green
Is covered now with crystal mounds of white
The path goes in and out and in between
And like a [...]

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Little Girls

Little girls grow up to be
Big girls with a need to see
What else the world can offer them
As off they fly on just a whim
And with them went a part of me
Will I ever feel whole again?

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