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Best Poems Written by Dylan Reyes-Cairo

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Alanis, Sweet Princess

You are Love like a soft and laughing breeze
unfettered, loosed upon the salted palms
in winter benign and without freeze.

Beauty breathless of a January babe,
dancing, careless of the Sun that fills your face
yet left your doorstep to wander from its place…

…to embrace and carry you, enchantress,
now elevated from the drenched and marshy plains
to enthrall, and in your mountain home to reign.

Play upon the grassy foothills of a dream
in sunbeams, giggles, hopscotch and apricot trees,
your eyes and infant’s curls from afar to me gleam.

Sleep the sleep of innocence,
live the dream of bliss.
To you, my daughter, beloved Alanis,
I send this father’s kiss…

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My Point Is

Today I think I’ll reinvent the wheel,
‘cause I don’t think the first time that they tried
they knew exactly how a wheel should feel.

A wheel will always try to roll away
and it’s like hell to make them stay close by,
but that’s not what I really meant to say.

I like my wheels to stay right in one place.
They’re just a help if someone comes and says:
Get up, and move on down the Interstate…

…for no good reason, like the jerks upstairs
who think they know too well what’s good for me.
They like to pass out orders with their airs.

I see the other wheels and need to groan
because they’re all the same, they roll around,
they cushion you from bumps along the road.

I don’t want to take my wheels for a spin.
I like to sit and watch upon the grass,
and make lewd sport about her mass or grin

at the way he drags his trash behind him
as if it were important. Such nonsense,
but here, that’s not really what my point is.

I want to make a wheel that’s square, and strong,
and nail it down or maybe stick it there
with Super Glue or mount it in cement.

And if they try to move me it gets bent,
so there’s no point in going anywhere
and making my life harder than it’s been.

But when they come to tell me I can’t stay
I’ll laugh and tell them all to go eat fudge,
my wheel’s embedded here, it cannot budge.

That’s not exactly what I meant to say…

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Patience

Sometimes home isn’t where the heart is;
I have a home somewhere I’m sure.
My heart hasn’t found it yet,
but last time I looked
in the box you gave me
to hold my pocket watch,
I felt your home
in the corner
of my mind
waiting
for me
to decide

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Albedo's Spell

Bewitched...
                                   The bone-colored  orbit,
                               hexing,  circulatory,  delicate,
                           beset by black velvet pierced thru
                         by  diamond fireflies nailed in place.
                         A  painful  cloud of  breath, I look up,
                          run  through  by  cold,  teary  eyes,
                            hot  blood, frozen time, I wonder,
                              glazed, hypnotized, transfixed
                                  by  the mirror  of the sun
                                                ...Albedo

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Breath of a Memory

What to do when I know I am no poet?
When my protestations are silenced
and my verses sink
beneath the perfume on your pillow

But the reality of your skin
and your hair falling 
across the breath of a memory
is like your fingers brushing against my heart

And then I realize
that I am art without hope
and I know I must stop evoking you
Forever

And only drown
in your presence...