Farewell Woman Poems

"Do not stand by my grave and weep", they said.
Here's something she would have said instead.
"Hey, smile, all of your smiles are beautiful."
Hers was more...

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Caution

Coal and violets strewn among your bone
Frosted the night, icy glaze of patient fire
Bending and breaking as a knead
Stammer and as tremor, shallots sake 
We...

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When i think of my girlhood,
 It is quiet. My memories hazy
digital snapshots.

Silence filled rooms, which
I tried to color with my thoughts
Only they were unwanted

Never...

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Merry is the way you spin me around, its no hard sell
Just you and I enjoying time on a two-person carousel
I heard no sound when...

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The reflection in your eyes
Hide the sad lines of beauty
Mirrored in your own little ocean
Touched a thousand secrets
Who sees behind the smile
Enigmatic soul gone before...

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I found a notebook in blowing trash
left by an elder moving away.
Did she not want to keep it, I asked
Won't fit, one room, is all...

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You still live in the past
Like some old crutch dragging you further to your knees
Wake Up, I know what you see
The blood soaked underwear was...

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...and don't forget I'm a woman of sunsets, good mornings and happy hours. I've fought to be here, so treat me kindly or bid farewell.

"Quote...

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You flit through my thoughts now and again
I feel you by my side more often than not
Just because your blood runs deep within me
And seriously...

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Blasts of Dorcas for what she’d done 
And for thinking that she had won:
For being the cause of what Ray did 
And for treating him...

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For long, I had enjoyed solving assorted puzzles, and difficult riddles, too,
For they entertain and stimulate an eager mind, as myriad stars often do.

From years...

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Woman, you were so pretty. You were so beautiful
You were so enlightened, so verdant and full of life
You were so kind. You were so wonderful
You...

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she meets 
               her final moment
     ...

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From ruined halls of a corrupt little apartment 
I flee with my children, trailing after me 
No more the hard hand of hate 
On my...

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A hollow prayer for what cannot be:
A distant day when you, again, I see.
My empty heart yet yearns for you around
Though now you wear a...

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