Life Pantoum Poems

You and I

You and I together
working as a team.
Over rugged mountains,
across raging streams.

Working as a team
through dark valleys of despair.
Across raging streams,
life’s bridges we repair.

Through...

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I want phone calls and grizzly bear hugs,
human touch not a face on a screen;
Just one person to caress my skin, 
remind me that there...

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I've Given Up

I’ve given up on chasing stars,
On mending scars with broken jars.
The weight of dreams too far to reach,
Has stolen words I used to...

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According to Quebec Health rules.    
On welfare 95% you pay.            ...

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Happy was our first night of married life,
Moonlight shined on your delightful visage,
Face up, red lips slightly apart, smiling.
I looked on a vision gratifying.

Moonlight shined...

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Who notices the passage of a god?
Who noticed when he rolled the stone away?
He passes you again with gentle nod,
The one who cast the conjure...

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Opening the door onto your secret,
my heart pounds at the display of old wounds. 
Healing achieved by clinging to nothing—
a future only obliquely glimpsed.

My heart...

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'You are the music', the guitar strings of my favourite song.
Your lyrics 'touch my life,' as you are the twin to my soul.
What 'am I'...

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Outlasting all my friends and some family,
I wish to live to be one hundred twenty.
A plethora of days to write poetry
as my last petals fall,...

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Starting full, a beauty complete.
The sun circles and circles once more.
The toll it came and so they fall.

It continues to thrive, just less.
The sun circles...

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I choose to sing
a gentle song
in a soft ballad
I find my time and place.

A gentle song
in peace and love
I find my time and place
on a...

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When it's all 'gone,' we're 'cryin' for love' and affection.
'Coast to coast' 'this life' is 'the only one' we get to live,
yet in your 'imperfection'...

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Night breaking up for the sun to fall,
Its colorwise veil disperse on her snagged back—
By morning, she lays her black cup down
For she is the...

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Spring tones, the blues— creature sky must come down,
For Summer will chip on flowers cut under ploughs, 
Power now shared by crows long before Autumn's...

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Wanted that first kiss submerging my lips.
Snow White’s open carriage embracing life.
Underscore of green eyes, seized by the sea.
At the lap of waves, over my...

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