Time Lullaby Poems

It’s time for sleep,
Yet I can’t get a wink,
For all I can do is weep.

Under Heaven’s sweet caress,
Memories of you fade,
Albeit just for the night.

My...

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Give me your troubled heart.
Give me your weary mind.
Give me your heavy load, 
I’ll make it mine.

I know you don’t remember now
the time we used...

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Date:  March  2051

3 days until April:
Flight time 3:05 afternoon--  IN flight 
"Dolly and Molly fumbled in their
Seat to achieve comfort. "Ooo does
This...

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I draw tadpoles, in ponds off back roads
With black coals that have no color
But when the Sucker is finished
They think I'm Van Goh's Brother
My painting...

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  Snuggling in with my 'Mushie'*
    singing bed-time lullabies
  Watching the smile on his face
    eyes close,...

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For many of us, I imagine, our love of music begins when in our mother’s womb we lie…
while floating in her warmth we hear her...

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Bells, bells, sound of bells fall now and then in my ears,
Their tone and timbre varying, sometimes singing, 
Sometimes jarring, sometimes rising to a sweet...

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He’s a Sunday Morning Christian
Sitting prominently in his pew, 
On the  other six days of the week
He exploits folk like me and you.
From his...

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Tainted schemes
distorted dreams
things you want
you should let them be
aint got no time for secomd glance
loves like ours
full of second chances
get it right
but don't take this...

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In Mama's arms you're safe and warm,
As she rocks you gently, there's no fear of harm,
So close your sleepy little eyes,
Hush your crying and fretful...

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Date:  April 2041

It's been one week now. There
Was no sign of the Black China 
Men. The other Hakim family 
Members decided to take residence...

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In melliloquent streams, words flow with grace,
Silken verses weave through time and space.
With elegance, melodies of speech entwine,
A symphony of thoughts, stories combine.

Each line exudes...

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As I've once have seen, tears fall down the face,
Of a lonely treasured man,
I meet realities with him through the swallow of the lament river,
Swarming...

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Don't you know? 
(Lullaby) 
By Michelle Morris
20/01/2021

Chorus
Don't you know that you're
The only one I need? 
Whenever I'm around you
I get weak...

Don't you know that you're...

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nap time music 
squ-ree-chee,  squ-ree-chee
springs are in rhythm
but the glider's out of tune 	

pat-tat-a tat,  pat-tat-a-tat
steady tempo 
grandma sets the cadence
on a baby-bottom...

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