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Best Poems Written by Cynthia Vipond

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Black and White Keys

I have always tinkled
From a very young age
On the ivory dashboard
From the dots on the page

The musical freedom
Of the song never sung
The releasing of passions
On which I too readily clung

There's a beauty in music
Like a God given joy
From operatic piano
To the cheap plastic toy

It matters not anytime
Any place you can find
If you call out to music
It responds in a rhyme

Your heart will be full
From the start to the end
With a strange, mystic healing
Any fracture, can mend

CV

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Oasis

Incandescent emotion
Spills and
Tumbles from pen to page 
Iridescent love
Leaps gracefully 
Like a gazelle from the
Lion's claws, as the safest
Oasis rises into
View.
Expectation of inspiration 
Eradicates those dark emotions
Vividly transforming
Every
Rhyme.
Yet,
The world of things
Haunts the proposed
Innocence of these words.
No
Guilt
Will
Eclipse the bright
Sunshine of some of the
Happiest refreshing moments.
Alone with my thoughts, but still
Raptured and ever grateful for
Every beautiful spirit-filled 
Drink to dissolve the driest darkness 

CV
3rd December 2023

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Nine Pins

Life throws a curve
It's overdue 

A thumb is clearly
Under screw

The wall so cold
Against my back

Lightening strike
Now charred and black

"Nine lives all spent"
Purrs leaping cat

Nowhere left
To hang my hat

A parachute
With twisted lines

An absent ear
For bell that chimes 

Cruel Critique
When poem rhymes

Once friendly chat
Now voiceless mimes

A sense of lostness
Overwhelms

Now love resides
In separate realms

CV
02.12.23

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Bookends

Weekends are a little like
Bookends

They stop you falling
Or lolling too far over
So you don't appear untidy or
At least not so
Uncomfortable

They keep you straight
Give you 
Purpose
Show you in your best
Posture

Vertical spine
Keeps you looking fine

Without life's bookends
We just become
Untidy
Unrested and sometimes
Unread

What a shame
When people stay closed

So thank you 
Weekends
For keeping us
Perky and
In good order

Perhaps an enthusiast will
Choose to engage with
Our words of wisdom
Adventure
Poetry

Simply because
We appeared at our best

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Valley

We enter the valley
Of shadows
Of thorns
A narrow path
Well worn

Where friends
Have travelled
Tattered, torn
No sunlight
Before new dawn

We said
Goodbye
Our souls forlorn
Yet hopeful joy
To be reborn

CV
19.01.24

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Canadian Snow

My path is icy
But love has melted away
And my feet surely
Tread on the firm route
That is lined with
Deep friendship
Deeper even than 
The cold Winter
That Jack Frost has
Clamped around my house
I felt trapped 
But kindness
Gentleness
Inexplicable love
Has made a path to freedom 
This path I am brave enough 
To adventure along

CV

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Disillusioned

A magic trick
I'd often feared
You were there
Then disappeared

No rabbit pulled
From empty hat
No cute tulips
Or polished chat

I'd rather 
I was cut in two
Than have to deal
With missing you

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Unshadowed

I'm glad we're friends
You really do
Change my mood
To fresh and new

The strangest thing
My heart receives
Like sunlight for
Unshadowed leaves

I give you time
No chore for me
I think I would..
Eternally

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Aching Heart

Indigestion
Is the question
Brain illusion
Or misdirection 

Doctor's pill 
This sickly ill 
Cannot repair
To fit the bill

Just time to heal
Oh, heartache feel
Is all to quell
My ache and reel

Restlessness
Just to confess
Invades my very
Consciousness

A hope that sticks 
Physician's tricks
The long-shot risk
Of one more fix

Like fracture weld
Or soulful meld
Simple solution..
Just to be held

CV
31.10.23

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Sometimes

Sometimes when you walk down a path it gets narrow and maybe even, you have to turn sideways to squeeze past some obstructions. Relationships are like that on occasion.
Other times the way ahead broadens into a magnificent vista; a field of poppies or vivid heathers that smell divine and our refreshed perspective is inspiring in it's clarity and optimism.
I feel like if I was to take a friendly hand in that moment, beyond the narrow, restricted season and into the fresh, vibrant, sunlit warmth, I would like that friendly hand to be yours. Is that possible?
In my imagination yours is not just the soft, delicate hand of friendship.. it is the hand of affirmation, the hand of acceptance, the hand of belonging. In my whirling mind there is a new moment, a beautifully crafted human act, allowing another to draw alongside and acknowledge their presence in this world with tender togetherness.
Not just the warm skin of a hand, but a universe of questions finds an answer.