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Best Poems Written by Curt Klinghoffer

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New Leaf

One morning arising
and cursed with the burden 
of thinking

My jackhammer brain’s 
ceaseless pounding 
the surface of concrete

I came on a leaf
dancing dangerously close
to my window

Chlorophyll stolen its
blood intermingled
with rain

Speckled and auburn 
and falling and
grasping at nothing

Jesus with all of his
lilies could not have
designed this

I gazed at the leaf until
I and the leaf 
were the same

Copyright © Curt Klinghoffer | Year Posted 2012



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God On a Cold Night

God on a cold night
Hears my frozen fears
The numbness of my solitude
The wind around my ears

God on a cold night
Crackles in the trees
Dances on the clouded moon
Whistles through the leaves

God on a cold night
Guards the warming fire
Waits in silence whispering
To angels on the wire

God on a cold night
Knows my loneliness
Holds the hope of harboring
My soul come home to rest

I live on the edge of permanence
I yearn to know the light
I speak in hushed vibrations to
God on a cold night.

Copyright © Curt Klinghoffer | Year Posted 2012

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Sorrow

No elegance ever there was
Like sorrow
Balances the world upon each shoulder
Justified and dignified 
With sorrow
Holds me as an arrow
Flying upstream through the marrow
But hold on to tomorrow
You will be there
With sorrow
Sweet of sound and pure of taste
Perfume of life and afterlife
That is the truth,
The certainty
Of sorrow

Copyright © Curt Klinghoffer | Year Posted 2012


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