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Poetry
PEOPLE
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These poems are about people: our
relationships with each other, our friends, lovers, partners, people we've lost
and people we've found.
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A
Blessing
A
Friend in the Night
Alone
A
New Year's Wish for a Special Friend
Angelina
A
Passing Glance
Friend
Friends
Grandfather
I
Have Only Two Hands
Loneliness
Precious
Angel
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A blessing to you, who are reading my poems
now...
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A Blessing
1984
May love touch
Your heart in the night
When all has gone dark
And your friends have fled.
May a song sprinkle
Upon your ears
And change your sorrow
To a morning dew.
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A Friend in
the Night
1984
A friend in the night
Met me on my
bridge of sorrow
About to fall off
And take the plunge
into nowhere.
A friend in the night
He caught my hand
and spoke to me
About the Earth
About sun and trees
and flowers fine.
A friend in the night
Turning my dark
veils into light
Demolishing sorrows
As the loving
sun rose once more.
A friend in the night
What was his name,
so fine a friend?
I hadn’t time to ask –
He walked away
into the sun.
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A New Year's Wish
for a Special Friend
1981
My friend, who's so dear,
I wish for you, in the new year:
May you have peace, happiness,
and love,
And the freedom of birds up above
May your friends show that they
care
And make all your worries lighter than air
May your body and soul stay
ever healthy
And may thus you grow infinitely wealthy
May the path of life become
less confused
And may the dark paths never be used
May the light shine upon you,
my love,
From the golden sun that shines from above.
May your soul be not tethered
too tight
And may your heart be your guiding light.
And may that light guide you
when to stay,
And be there to follow if you must go away.
May only the gentle rains
caress your soul,
With no lashing torrents to take their toll.
May you see much beauty all
around
And leave your eyes never on the ground.
And may your beauty grow for
evermore,
And radiate from your every pore.
And for us, my dear friend,
May there never be an end
To a friendship that's so dear
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May we always have each near.
May our love grow always
stronger
And last us always much longer.
I wish this and much more for
my friend so dear;
May you have all that's good, in the new year.
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A
Passing Glance
1998
Just a passing glance
So much in her eyes
Stories written there
On a deep winter day
Just a passing glance
My heart went to my knees
The missing yesterdays
Fell from her hair
Just a passing glance
My feet danced away
The laughter awakening
From within the Earth
Just a passing glance
Now gone forever
The memories linger
Light upon the breeze.
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| You meet someone, grow close, and then
suddenly someone or something from their past arrives again in the present and they are
suddenly changed, remote, and they slip away.... |
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Alone
1978
Alone….
with someone who was once close
but now a stranger.
The voices of the past have reached forward
and claimed them,
Catapulting them back into the other world
from whence they came;
The great pretence of the present is forgotten,
engulfed by thundering yesterdays,
like rocks upon a stormy ocean shore.
The storm is quickly over,
leaving you…
Alone…
with someone who was once close
but who is now a stranger.
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Angelina
1984
Angelina
On the morning breeze
Perfume of sunrise
Gracing the air
Angelina
You were but five
When they sent you away
To dark lands afar
Angelina
A flower amidst stone
Alone in the world
No family or home
Angelina
You’ve lost youself now –
In a world of walls
Where could you go?
Angelina
Upon wings of dreams
Escape from the hell
They’ve made for you
Angelina
A broken life
In the darkening sunset
Of a world gone cold
Angelina
I’m so much alone
And life is so sad
Now that you’re gone.
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Have you ever really, really needed a friend to
come to your emotional rescue? You just can't handle it anymore, but you
know that they can pull you out of the pit that you're sunk in.
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Friend
1977
friend, the walls are too high
now --
please come and break them down
friend, the thorns are too
sharp now --
please come and soften them
friend, the rain falls so hard
now --
please come and make it gentler
friend, the night is too dark
now --
please come and shine into it
friend, my eyes see nothing but
sorrow --
please come and turn them elsewhere
friend, I am buried deep within
myself now --
please come and rescue me
friend, it is much too cold out
there --
please come and warm me
friend, please come soon.
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Friends
1983
A friend who’s so dear
They wish I might stay
The road calls me, I fear
I’ll soon return, they pray.
Leave you I must
As the breeze blows free
Let every new gust
Remind you of me.
I love you all
Oh, so very deep
But please, those walls,
They’re yours to keep.
A tether of gold
Is even too much
Though fine to behold,
It’s a deathly clutch.
Roads come to an end
Dying plants wither
But remember, my friend,
A friendship is forever.
Birds dancing in the morning sky
Forever singing, they colour the day
Even thought I, too, must fly
I’m always here, though far away.
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Grandfather
1983
As I watch
The dancing flames,
The campfire's reflected
In your eyes
You are wise
To suit your years
Every gray hair
And line shows truth
Here beside us
The moon-covered lake
The forest and rock
Everlasting and strong
Every north wind,
The sun, and the earth;
In every leaf
You will be there
You will live on
Forever and more
Here in the wilds
Your spirit lives on.
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Sometimes we encounter someone who takes so
much out of us (intentionally or not) that we simply have to distance
ourselves from them, no matter how much we care about them.
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I have only two hands
1981
I see you coaxing the raging
fires
Of guilt, anger, pity, and hate.
I hear you say, "lend me your hand"
Before, you say, it becomes too late.
The words on the phone
Seem so sad,
And it takes so much work
To make them glad.
Sometimes I succeed,
And sometimes I don't;
It's hard to say, "be happy",
When you say, "I won't".
You heap bricks upon your
soul
And smother the light of life --
How deep one must reach
To rid your soul of strife.
Oh, what strength I need
When I reach out my hand
To wrest some happiness
From this barren land.
Glimpsing the agony of your
soul,
I see flowers wilted, butterflies shredded,
Light becomes darkness, and doves turn black,
Clouds are torn from the sky, and beauty is ended.
When the fire burning inside
So chars my reaching fingers,
And they feel all too much
The pain that lingers,
My soul is content to stay
Peaceful, alive, and at rest
Please, not to be dragged
Down into that tempest.
But I'm afraid that it
happens,
All too often, I fear,
That my peace becomes blackened
By your fires so near.
So, my dear friend,
Do not think it strange
When I make you climb
On your own for a change.
Climb that mountain you must,
No matter how high it stands.
And please always remember...
I have only, two hands.
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Loneliness
1985
Yet while I curse the
weakness
that binds me to you
I live for the moments
when you speak my name
Face to face with the loneliness
that gnaws at my soul.
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Precious Angel
1984
Poor little sister
What can you do
Daddy’s gotten drunk
And there’s nowhere to go.
Whispering heartbreak
All alone
The night is so endless
And nobody’s home.
Little white rabbit
Caught in a snare
They pull the noose tighter
Until love is gone.
Butterfly yellow
Twisted and torn
Tied up in a corner
And free not to go.
The fires burn brighter
And sear out your soul
They rape you with their words
And push you away.
My precious angel
Where have you gone?
You’ve fled into the sunset
Now I’m all alone.
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