Lain Poems - Poems about Lain

...Saturday is native to weddings and ceremonies Of anxieties – patterned in coarse sputum of rain. My friend Bonsy and his wife filled the calendar With the uselessness of time, levelled against was......

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...I walked into a room and did not know it well yet, feel I should, for I have been there many times, not a liminal space, though sometimes this is so. But this time, oddly, somewhere I should know ......

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...On a dusky evening long time ago, When shadows huddled at every corner, When rain had gone and birds had roosted, You held me close and whispered in my ear; “In your eyes I see, th......

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...before enactment of an event on earth creation occurs in a subtler domain call it what we will; it’s there our will takes birth like blessings from heaven falling down like rain so what this deep......

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...Truth is known when ego is shorn but what’s imbibed, we can’t pass on, for how may sunlight be revealed, to the deluded who shun dawn? Soul’s light within is not revealed, unless our heart’s r......

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...“Do you know where hell is?” Lee Marvin growls in headsets. New Year, sixty-eight. Hauling freight ten thousand high, bomber out of Platts, NY, is cruising over white. “Far out,” (someone on in......

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..."Across our childhood’s street we trod on carpet lawn and holy sod. We walked along where some had prayed. Where once we played, he now is laid." From my poem "Where Once We Played" T......

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...Years lay over, tilt to shed tears, from eaves of leaves that sway, stay and, stray away to far beyond. Lay, lady, lay. Come allay your fears and I'll let your colors shine, if you'll s......

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...Oh, what pale imitation now is this? My train of empty carriages which held A score of lovers, harem of my flesh, Now emptied of those who within me dwelled. These rails since lain to waste,......

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...A cool ocean breeze with the waves at its knees Brings a chill til the sun heats the sand And then I shall dive to see fish so alive Too pretty to die at my hand These coconut palms and this ol......

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...Having been, seen and so known, light of Self in heart full blown, that’s what we focus upon, each life breath ushering dawn. Immanent and transcendent, magnetised, bliss resplendent, we then......

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...He came as a babe in a manger, left His Throne and His Glory above, To bring us His grace and salvation and show us the meaning of love And the angels, they wept, for they knew of the things ......

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... Oh Love! Throb and thrill of my life Why you desert me in my strife? Why stay far, giving no delight? Don't fade like a symphony sweet. Won’t you come near and ease my pain Can’......

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...Now, it is time for us to part I think of you, my dearest heart; in that, my sanity sustain; for some of you does yet remain.  I’ll take your now cold hand in mine and while, once more, they d......

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...The Lie I am an insect waiting to be squashed! I stare hard at the ground as if fascinated, enthralled by it while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt wait to gouge and burrow out any self-belie......

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