Best Counterpane Poems

Gentle sounds of rainy days, 
   Cool dampness on a counterpane

The memory of my childhood years, beneath a quilt of poetry
    Stirs longing for that healing grace, that comes again upon the page...


A mother's touch with vapor-rub
   Some...

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With the gentle sound of rainy days
I do recall the games I played,
while home from school, and when fevers brewed
when I was sick, and clouds ensued
to turn my stay in bed for days

Hands soothed my brow, and beads of dew
grew pearls of moisture, in rainbow...

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Look into my mind.
I am the master of fantasy;
King of the isle of imagination,
Lord of the land of counterpane
Whereon I arrange the pieces of my life.
You are long gone, speaking no more, yet haunt me,
As some phantom lingers in his house of death,
Blindly walking rooms...

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