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Jennie Baron Poem
My current companion is my cat,
My mini-predator
Right now half dozing peacefully beside me.
She isn’t really mine,
For a cat belongs to no one.
My cat is the perfect hedonist
Unlike my dog who thinks it’s all about me.
Still, I marvel at her controlled power and grace,
The way she goes from sleeping
To ready to spring and pounce in an instant,
My tiger in a ten-pound package.
She captivates me by being sometimes aloof,
Sometimes affectionate when it suits her purpose.
What is behind those wily, intelligent,
Inscrutable green eyes?
I don’t think I truly want to know what she’d say.
I might find what she really thinks of me!
But we accept each other
And we have an understanding.
We are friends if I accept her friendship on her terms.
I feed and care for her
And in return she allows me to admire her.
Copyright © Jennie Baron | Year Posted 2014
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Jennie Baron Poem
When I first met you,
Love was something as yet undefined
Yet something I knew would be,
Something I saw in your eyes.
When love began to grow within me
What pain and joy I discovered all at once!
Waiting only for the time I'd spend with you
But still uncertain if you felt the same.
Terrified that my love was unrequited,
Fearful of revealing it
Even when we knew each other well.
Then came that special night
When you said you love me too
And with love’s first kiss you showed me.
And on one dizzy, starlit summer night
We knew our minds and bodies couldn’t wait
Till we expressed our love.
Now each day brings bad and good things to share
And each night brings new ways to show my love for you.
No matter how often we love,
It’s still magical as the first time.
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll always feel the way I do.
We’re both people who learn and grow—
Will we grow away from each other?
Does love die when it grows old,
Or does it just mature?
No matter what the future brings
I know we have something wonderful now.
I can't believe that anything would ever part us.
But if that should happen,
Let it not be with hatred and remorse.
Most people never know in a lifetime
All the love and laughter we've already shared.
Let's not take it for granted.
Copyright © Jennie Baron | Year Posted 2013
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Jennie Baron Poem
Your eyes are the Fourth of July
Your smile the light of day
But the light in your heart
Is much brighter by far
And it leaves me dazed
And completely amazed
Just to glimpse one tiny ray.
You’re luminescent, incandescent, brilliantly bright
But I know all about the fire behind the light
Let me warm myself beside it
Always want to reignite it
Light my way and stay within my sight.
Copyright © Jennie Baron | Year Posted 2013
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Jennie Baron Poem
Okay, maybe “despair” isn’t the word I’m looking for.
Maybe it’s just “desperation.”
Maybe it’s impatience and anxiousness, hoping to find my unique voice, but I feel I’m shouting in a vacuum, broadcasting loud and clear when no one’s tuned to my frequency.
Plus, whenever I think I have something profound to say, someone cleverer has said it more eloquently than I could.
But you know what? I think that fate, coincidence, God, whatever, aligns things so that surely my signal will resonate with the correct receiver and someone will find meaning in the program.
And won’t that be grand?
Copyright © Jennie Baron | Year Posted 2014
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Jennie Baron Poem
Please don't kiss me like that.
I'm tired of insincere kisses.
Save it for a lover.
Now I know we’re only meant to be friends
Although I once hoped to mean more than that to you.
This isn’t about love,
This is about you leading me on and messing my mind.
Oh yes, I bear some of the blame.
I was just as willing to play
But now I need more.
Whatever I once felt when I kissed you is gone now,
Even though I don't know how I'll ever go on without it.
There are too many others you've
Kissed the same way,
Too many times I wanted you near
Too many things I wanted to share with you
When you weren't around.
So let's end it right now,
While we're still friends,
While I can still be grateful for good times we've had,
Before I really fall in love with you.
Copyright © Jennie Baron | Year Posted 2014
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Jennie Baron Poem
Little disturbs the silence of my solitude
As loneliness engulfs me
As visible, as palpable
as any fog anyone ever saw.
It soaks into my soul;
It distorts and clouds my vision.
I can't see people and things.
I can't see life clearly, realistically.
Loneliness constrains me
and prevents others from seeing me.
Sometimes, sometimes the sun of another's kindness,
Of a kindness I have done to them, burns through
And surely as the sun will rise tomorrow,
I know it will again.
But tonight—tonight's a chilly, gloomy night.
I find no comfort or warmth.
Copyright © Jennie Baron | Year Posted 2013
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You know I’ve dreamed half my life away
And crashed hard when the fantasy
Didn’t turn out like I hoped it’d be
But those times seem so far behind me
Since good fortune seemed to find me.
Always wanted to share the dream with someone
Never thought I would till now.
Without love my other dreams had no meaning.
Now I thank Heaven that we dream together.
I’m still a dreamer but reality’s so much better with you.
Baby let’s keep livin’ the dream forever.
Copyright © Jennie Baron | Year Posted 2013
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