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Lullaby

I promise

A kiss so silent

It will fall with you 

Insignificant, yet unstill

Down, down, into darkness

Beyond streetlights’ white islands

Its’ un-kept pyres an’ broken-down engines

Into the dormant,...

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“belles lettres” 

It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment 
before you dive 
into the dark

you surface 
to find a boat 
surrounded by 
shining pearls,

Styx, a mirror...

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 When the brief sounds of barking dogs fade

and the loud voices of children echo away

When winds stop shaking  apple trees

and leaves settle in...

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"Deep Sea Sky Blue" 

the contented life
rises and falls
bedded 

the treasure chest
is touched briefly
inside a shell opens
constricted mind
of heart swallows
the bends, 
it is found
wanting, so...

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yOur telling me I'm gOing crazy
but dOn't you think this a i r ' s amazing

yOu lOOk at me as if I'm gOing u
 ...

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I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be...

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When the day prowls with fear
And dark, little less in pair,
The eyes, a shuttle for tears,
The heart, beating in pierce,
In nature's treat, I sought repel.
A...

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Moons talk, 
Tarts believe in pride, 
But all falls; starts the lonely walk! 
All to test the banks' tide. 

When you're washed, yet, unstill 
Like...

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I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.

I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.

If...

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Behold! 

A gaping black-
Curtains of a heaven, drawn
Set adrift
Across the wilt of the zodiac! 

An’ so, she emerged

An’ madness dreamt into reality 
A bow, to...

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your beauty, 
hidden inside
can only be felt, 
or experienced
but not explained 
in words, or otherwise
for it is perfect, pure, infinite
that illuminates the elements
of my atman
in...

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Tis' tender heart
Crossroad betwixt
Each soul and body

And conscience thus
The traveler
Upon the road of live's journey

The forks in left or right
Veering off
Becomes the way of progression...

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Moonlight shines on the lake,
The gentle ripples make it shimmer
in the eyes like slivers of silver,
Dancing on the unstill water surface.

In the chilly, late Autumn...

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An ordinary story
Sometimes
So bitter
So bitter

Yet bound 
And written together
Penned by you an me

Our great annuals
So heavy
So heavy

Of every wonderland
An' madness
We had dreamt into reality

It's our...

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This poem is based on the painting of George Frederick Watts in 1886 
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