Long Lay over Poems

The same black cloud that rested over the field the morning after the mower put out the haystack floated over the tops of the silver-trees on the edges of the rose-garden. Through the silver-trees it...

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I watched as the dark grew around his eyes.
He came through the window,
Stepping like a shadow.
He was the night, he was the ghost, he was the 
Unaided fighter as he reached for my side.
And I...

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In Memoriam Quietly Always Close

Are they whispers, then, settling
So gently upon that slightest breeze wending
     Over the granite crosses and statues of cradling angels,
     Which stand in...

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like cataracts
on a grey old dog
a light fog lay over the low, amber moon
a stiff breeze blowing
but next to the ground only
so the layer of fog stayed put above
eerily ... hauntingly
I had walked the dirt...

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Across her village far deep in to the forrest Morning Star found peace and 
contentment. Here away from her village, the young girl enjoyed the daylight 
hours with the sounds and beauty of nature and...

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Cap'n & the Wench  *part the fourth*

Says the Wench t'the Cap'n "Me thinks I'll 'ave me some White Lightnin' " 
So says the Cap'n t'the Wench "Go right ahead Me Dear~
Fer y've ne'er been...

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Miles and miles of open country pass as the train moves.
A sudden thrust, jolt then nothing. The earth stands still.
Wind circulates pushing branches, leaves dance with the melody..
We sit..
Or movement halted by a slow moving...

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All that was holy died in resplendence.
  kerbstones bit gutters and gutters sucked road,
black and white zebra stripes buried by snowflakes,
  wires fizzed and snapped as their cups overflowed.

Cars lay abandoned, the milk...

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Then I knew what lay over the distant horizon
For the sun dared me to follow it to the other side
Where light took shape in a proud day’s kaizen,
Morning accompanied yesterday’s journey inside
The frolic of the...

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i lay over my brother
i feel so proud,
is this what a brother
is all about,
to take you under my wing you see
a will be there if you need me,
to look at you with a mighty smile
you...

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Mother said of all the mid-summer flowers she loved best,
The common garden dahlia was clearly her favorite.
Every Spring she carefully hand-placed the sturdy tubers,
Tenderly caring for each one, watched it bravely shoot up,
Growing, until large...

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That Old Tree Was Loved
That old tree had weathered many storms past
Veteran of countless intense brush fires
Giant limbs still grew strong and very fast
Yet this summer, one can see where it tires.

Broken limb , dangling...

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~ Written for-the blind ... . ~ 
 
 
 
Those-whom cannot read ... .
 
It has a musical sound-track ... .
 
Voice lay-over ... .
 
Want to present-it in-a-brail version ... . 
 
 Push-a-button, have-each-page, be-played ...
 
for-all-those-to-hear, see. 
 
 
 
It is a letter to-God/book of...

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Haunting fingers lay over me
By my hips and my chest
The smile that I cannot forget
A smile that I cannot help but tell myself it was your true self

A smile I can only see as wicked...

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I'm at my stop over,
waiting on my next flight
I've been in my pain all the way over
And I have to wait on to continue through the night 

My cheek is swollen,
Feels like I was stung
My...

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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 stay with me, for...

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I never felt so embarrassed my dear
It’s not like they were checking my ear
He gave me a gown with ties in the back
Is that what they mean by saying no to crack
He said please lay...

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white is the new snow
it colours land with pureness
fresh and crisp to touch

Pristine snow lay over the fields clothing it in white crystals
soft piles of deep drifts abound the hedges 
the simple beauty of the...

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Sleep does not easily come to the wracked,
  Nor does it obviously fall on the damned,
It does not as a snowfall descend,
  Or as a blanket lay over the land.
Windows of eyes gape...

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Freddy the Fly was
disembarking at ,
long last...

And if you noticed
his face, perchance.
.the very thought of
six hundred tears
falling happenstance

He'd booked a lay- over
in the Alleghany swarmps
Cause someone told him
A few "Crock and  Colas"
"Will put some...

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Morning begins as love
A compassionate feeling from the heart
A white dove flies upon us
No worries at all
As longs as your blanket lay over me
I'll always feel as calm as a gentle wave in the sea
Night...

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To Gooney Birds

Shifting palm trees in sandy beach sunshine
Guard an immortal violet-blue lagoon
Gooney birds beg and dance all in a line
When they land it’s like watching a cartoon

As the ship is being refueled at pier
Steaks...

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The sky overhead a delft blue, solid and true
lay over a lake glacial of a pristine hue.
In its reflection a bounty of yellow broom
joining earth and heaven, a marvelous venue.

A forest of staunch evergreens stand...

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It whispers that you were once here..
it must have been grand in its day
keeping things in and others at bay-

Giving you a sense of{false} security
a boundary never to be breeched
a sense of permanence and importance
a...

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