Best Donovan Poems

She’s eighty-eight this day in January,
Graced my life nearly a quarter century.
When I grow up I want to be,
Just like my dear friend, nay ‘Auntie’, Bridie!

This Colleen from Castlemaine, County Kerry,
Is ever joyous and merry.
Bridie loves a hearty hug or rousing Irish song,
She’ll skip an...

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A long time ago, somewhere cozy I know,
under bright fire glow, my mind got blown.
PSYCARNIVAL, the place to be, where I found me looking at me,
I'm now the place to be, me and me are We, my He and my She are 'The'
I am the...

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The moment you were born I knew,
I would never love someone like I love you,
You looked at me with those big blue eyes,
More beautiful and blue than the brightest skies,
I never thought I could love someone I just met so much,
So tiny and so perfect,...

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the underdog becomes the wolf 
in a shocking turn of events
yet not of his own volition 

'you are finally a man' they say
but he does not agree
he is a boy, plucked from a childhood
and thrust into survival

but here
they call it adulthood
they call it becoming a...

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