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Willette Harmon Poem
REMINISCE
WHEN I SIT BACK AND REMINISCE
ABOUT THE FIRST MAN WHO CLAIMED
LOVE AND ENDLESS BLISS
I HEARD HIM SAY WITHOUT DELAY
DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES
AS HE LAID ME DOWN
FOR THE FIRST TIME
WHISPERING WORDS IN MY EAR
THAT HE WANTS TO BE MINE
PROCLAIMING TO ME IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY
I HEARD HIM SAY AS IF IT WAS TODAY
DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR DAYS
OH, HOW HE PROFESSED HE LOVED ME
ACKNOWLEDGING I'LL LOVE WILL
ENDURE UNTIL ETERNITY
THEN I HEARD HIM SAY TO MY DISMAY
DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES
THEN ONE, TWO THREE BEFORE
YOU COULD SAY FOUR
HE HAD ZIPPED UP HIS PANTS
AND WAS OUT THE DOOR
HIS WORDS STAY WITH ME FOREVER MORE
DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES!
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Willette Harmon Poem
LOVE CRY
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVE I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED EVER SO TRUE
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED IT'S EACH AND EVERYONE I LOVE
I JUST WANT THAT SPECIAL LOVE TO HOLD AND ENDURE
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED EVER SO TRUE
I'VE TOUCH THE SURFACE OF LOVE EMPTY SHALLOW PHRASES OF
LOVE FRAMELESS PICTURES OF LOVE COME FADING THROUGH
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED TO OPEN UP MY HEART TO LOVE
TO RELEASE MY SPIRIT TO LOVE FOR WHAT UNMEASURABLE
SCALE OF LOVE WITH ENDLESS HUE
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED
ONLY THE ECHOES OF LOVE COME BELLOWING THROUGH
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED EVER SO TRUE
I KNOW THE TWIST OF LOVE AND THE TURNS OF LOVE
I WOULD LIKE TO SPIN MY LOVE INTO SOMETHING TRUE
I WILL BE YOUR LOVE IF IN ME YOU SEE YOUR LOVE
I'LL GIVE TO YOU ALL MY LOVE SO HONEST AND PURE
I HAVE HAD DREAMS OF LOVE AND CREAMS OF LOVE
BUT YOU ARE MY HOT FONDUE OF LOVE
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED
I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED BUT ONLY BY YOU
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Willette Harmon Poem
DANCER OF LOVE
SHE JUST STAYED IN HER ROOM AND DANCED
SHE JUST STAYED IN HER ROOM AND DANCED
SHE NEVER THOUGHT TO GO OUTSIDE HER DOOR
THERE WAS NOT ANYTHING OUT THERE
FOR HER TO EXPLORE
SHE JUST STAYED IN HER ROOM AND DANCED
YOU WOULD FIND HER AT ANY HOUR
SINGING SMILING AND KNEELING DOWNWARD
PEOPLE WONDERED WHY THEY CALLED HER INSANE
HER PECULIAR HABIT COULD NOT BE EXPLAINED
EVEN THOUGH THEY ALL DIFFERED AND ACTED STRANGE
THEY WERE QUITE AT EASE WITH EACH OTHER
AND EACH OTHER WAYS
THEY CAME OUT TO BOAST TO CURSE TO PLAY
SHE JUST STAYED IN HER ROOM AND DANCED
SHE MUST BE CRAZY SO WITHOUT DELAY
THEY CAME ONE DAY AND LOCKED HER AWAY
SHE DID NOT WORRY SHE DID NOT STRAIN
SHE HAD NO STRESS SHE HAD NO PAIN
SHE WISHED THEM NO HARM SHE DID NOT COMPLAIN
SHE DID NOT CRY SHE DID NOT SIGH
SHE NOT QUESTION OR ASKED THEM WHY
SHE JUST STAYED IN HER ROOM AND DANCED
SHE JUST STAYED IN HER ROOM AND DANCED
YOU WOULD FIND HER AT ANY HOUR
SINGING SMILING AND KNEELING DOWNWARD
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Willette Harmon Poem
my senses keep you forever with me
my mouth misses the taste
of your tender kiss
my face misses the caress
of your tender touch
how sweet were your words
when you whispered them
softly in my ear
how my heart misses you
and wish that you were here
time has not begun to erase
your memory from my mind
my senses keep you forever with me
my thoughts of you are kind
i miss the smell of your body
pressing next to mine
i see your face before me
i need and want you so much
you are forever with me
but you i can not touch
my senses keep you forever with me
as each day goes by with time
you will be forever with me
you will be forever mine
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Willette Harmon Poem
ILLUSIONIST
I FIND MYSELF QUITE AMAZED THAT AGAIN
I PORTRAYED THIS ILLUSION
I HAD DECIDED TO GIVE UP THE MASQUERADE
I DO NOT KNOW HOW OR WHY IT HAPPENED
THAT I PUT THE WRONG FACE ON TODAY
WHETHER IT WAS IN MY HASTE
PERHAPS THE DIMNESS OF THE LIGHT OR DUE
TO THE BLINDNESS OF MY HEART I REACHED
INTO MY DRAWER AND PULLED OUT THE WRONG
MASK ASTONISHED I WORE A SMILE FOR YOU THIS
THIS TIME WHEN IT TRULY SHOULD HAVE BEEN
A FROWN WHY DO I FIND IT NECESSARY JUST TO
KEEP YOUR FEELINGS INTACT FOR ME TO KEEP UP
THIS ILLUSION OF CONTENTMENT
FOR ME TO CONCEAL THE WAY YOU SOMETIMES
MAKE MR FEEL I THOUGHT CLOWNS HAD THE
MONOPOLY ON DECEPTION
FOOLING THE WORLD WITH THEIR PAINTED
FACES AND WIDE GRIN IF YOU WOULD CARE TO
LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER I AM THAT CLOWN
I AM THE MASTER OF ILLUSION
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Willette Harmon Poem
I did not know I had an ocean full of Pearls
For you to conquer
Yet you took them freely
The dive was deep
Your rapture of me surfing from ocean to shore
I drowned in the essence of you
How deep was the eruption of the waters
In the clear blue sea
I have washed up on the shore
A rock of seashells burning
In the everlasting sun
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Willette Harmon Poem
TWILIGHT OF LOVE
YOU DO NOT OR WILL EVER LOVE ME
THE WAY I WOULD LIKE YOU TO
YOUR HEART ONLY HAS MEMORIES OF ANOTHER
IN YOUR PAIN OF FORGETTING HER
YOU NEED ONLY TO REMEMBER
HOW TRANSITIONAL YOUR LIFE MUST BE NOW
WHEN YOU HOLD ME IT FEELS LIKE
THERE IS SOME TWILIGHT OF LOVE
OR THE NEED FOR LOVE
I CAN LOVE YOU KNOWING WHEN TRUE
TIMES TAKE OVER YOU WILL BE GONE
I'LL WAIT UNTIL THAT TIME COMES
WHY BECAUSE I LOVE YOU
EVEN IF IT IS THE ART OF WANTING LOVE
YOU ARE THE ONE I WANT
YOU ARE THE ONE I NEED
JUST BY KNOWING YOU A SHORT WHILE
HOW ENRICHING MY LIFE HAS BECOME
I KNOW YOU ARE THE MAN
I DREAMED OF ALL MY LIFE
MORE THAN THAT I KNOW
YOU ARE JUST A DREAM
HOW REAL WAS THE FANTASY FOR ME
I COULD ONLY THANK YOU
FOR LETTING ME KNOW YOU DO EXIST
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Willette Harmon Poem
ROSES
WHEN YOU CAME INTO THE DOOR
YOU HAD ROSES IN YOUR HAND
NOT KNOWING I WOULD BE THERE
EMBARRASSED, YOU OFFERED ME ONE
HOW COULD I EXCEPT A ROSE
YOU HAD BOUGHT FOR ANOTHER
YOU SAID IT WAS JUST AN
APOLOGETIC GESTURE TO
EXCUSE SOMETHING YOU HAD DONE
THE NIGHT BEFORE
GOING BACK OUT THE DOOR
WITH ROSES IN HAND
WAIT FOR ME, YOU SAID
I'LL WAIT, I HAVE NO REASON TO
SHOW ANY SIGNS OF POSSESSION
I'LL WAIT FOR YOU
JUST LIKE I WAITED
THE NIGHT BEFORE
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Willette Harmon Poem
Do I believe? can I believe?
I feel the anxiety.
It creeps up on me like a tiger in the night
Slowly going for her prey.
And with one swift jump, she encompasses
All there is to satisfy her whim, her hunger.
I am hungry too! I have been hungry
For such a long time!
My heart is swollen but with one soft
Pressure from your lips on mine,
I release, I cry. The tears come
Falling down around me.
I am drowned with the mere
Essence of you!
In all the time, and all the wait
Is it my time?
The answer is only yes, yes, yes.
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Willette Harmon Poem
What is it like to sit and wait
Your only dream to die
When you are living beyond your fate
You bow your head and cry
Some people scorn at dying
They say death please don't come
But when you are old in need of rest
You need a peaceful home
Death is beauty death is sweet
It comforts you so dear
So when the darkness before you come
You need not shed a tear
The tears once from your wrinkled face
Will altogether soon depart
When death and you embrace
Loneliness will be but in the past
Your dream will be fulfilled
No more loneliness sorrow and hurt
Which carried you through those last years
Death is a new beginning
It sometimes justifies the means
For when you are old and lonely
You may welcome death in
Copyright © Willette Harmon | Year Posted 2024
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