Do You Hear What I Feel
...You hold me in the palm of your hand like a bird,
but take heed, for I live in your poems, every word.
To you they're pages bound in glue, without a voice.
And yet, they speak of love to me, your ...
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Categories:
gertrud, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse
Breath of My Life
...Breath Of My Life
In the womb of time and life every breath I take could be
my last when I expire and exhale my last wind of change
~~ I Trust You ~~
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Categories:
gertrud, love,
Form: Free verse
Little Clock
...for Gertrud Widmayer, my landlady at Heidelberg
Why in pensive ticking, silent thoughts
You wile your time away
When all around huge swelling bells
Toll the days away!
Every hour that announc...
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Categories:
gertrud, song-world,
Form: Quatrain
Coal-Truck
...for Gertrud Widmayer
I am a coal-truck
Carrying gold dust.
Someone threw some
Coal-dust upon
My gold-dust.
I am a coal-truck
In a gold mine.
Someone struck a coal vein
And piled me full in vain.
I...
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Categories:
gertrud, parody, me, me,
Form: Free verse