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Not Alone

Not Alone
Edward Clay
Created October 2016

What sadness 
does a veil of laughter hide?
What sorrow 
does gleeful merriment cover?
Behind the smile,
Someone’s aloneness and sadness 
might be disguised.
It is fear does this.
Fear someone will see. 
How alone one is. 
Will find 
how sad behind the smile is.

I speak from experience.
I speak from time spent 
alone and sad.
Spent feeling 
was not grown enough of soul 
to be able to love.

I did finally 
take off my mask.
The covering smile 
over dark sadness.
I say to you it is never too late 
it is ever possible to find.
Love,
Contentment,
Togetherness.
The knowledge 
you are not alone.

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Only Stop

Only Stop
Edward Clay
November 2016

Stop!
Stand a moment.
Breathe deep and draw in calm.
Look,
With eyes and heart open.
See the beauty around.
The autom leaf
or the sparkle of a flowing brook.
The pattern in a piece of stone
Or the shapes of clouds.
Feel it inside you
as beauty is everywhere.
One only has to look.

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Teachers Song

TEACHERS SONG
Edward Clay
summer 1997

Fly with me my young ones
on wings of metal and stone.
Learn with me and we shall see
what dreams you call your own?

First acquire the basic skills
the way of tools and flame.
Then find the heart within the stone
a picture for the frame.

Rings and pins with mounted stones
and bracelets to admire.
Jewelry made with skill and love
as the crafts require.

Now my stone of life is dust
I know my time has gone.
The art and skills I shared with all
those skills one will pass on.

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Loneliness Will Grow

Loneliness Will Grow
Edward Clay
Created 1993

If one never says, “hello,”
One may need not say, ”goodbye,”   
But the loneliness can grow 
as the years go bye and bye.

Being quiet can prevent 
one from having spoke ”adieu,”
Though the time one spends alone 
is much worse a way for you.

Take your heart out for a walk,
Let the sunshine shine on you,
Let the wind blow on your face, 
Walk through grass with morning dew.

It may seem you do not die 
if you keep your heart from hurt, 
In that way you might as well 
be entombed below the earth.

So I say once more to you, 
I speak it fervently and clear,
Say “hello” to someone close, 
May turn into someone dear.

If one never says “hello,” 
One need not say “goodbye,”  
Could miss love that might be
till the heart can sometimes die.

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Orchid Dream

ORCHID DREAM
Edward Clay
Jan 1991


Black Orchid at night silently screams
at the approaching day.
The spider hearing this cry pauses
In repairing its web.
While a caterpillar counting its feet
Marches away to its next meal.
My soul dreaming dark dreams
hears the orchids cry.

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Passions Flower

Passions Flower
Edward Clay
March 2008

Hibiscus
no wall-flower you.
Nor Nosegay laurel.
Not wormwood at virgin’s-bower.
So sweet William 
seeing Venus’s looking-glass
discovers a Passion-flower.

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Glass Forest

Glass Forest
Edward Clay
Winter 1993 

The translucent glass forest 
of rainbow, hued growths
through which my mind wanders, 
Is bathed in filtered sunlight 
making its way through
in colors 
too numerous to discern.

As my spirit travels 
through this cathedral like place 
on paths only I know, 
Puzzling if the life here 
shares the wondrous quality  
in showing the sun’s light 
in permanent rainbows 
of color and beauty.

As night falls 
this magical place, 
Having captured the sun’s light 
Holds it 
slows its fading, somehow,
Passes it from one growth to another
glimmering through out the night 
in softened values.

Wind moves the trees.
Cascades of crystal like sounds
fill my senses  
soothe my spirit, 
Filling my very soul with what it must have
to continue to create 
the beauty of poetry, 
Thus  renewing 
the well spring that is me.

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The Pitcher

THE PICTURE
                 Edwardf Clay
                 Jan 1991
	
      Someone stepped out of a picture one day,
       Having watched the world go by,
       To see what he could learn in the world,
       Of earth and wind and sky.

      He stepped right out and walked away,
       To experience life out of the frame,
       And as he walked, he didn’t expect
       A world so full of pain.

      The poor fellow did not understand,
       So he turned around and fled,
       Running right back into the picture frame
       And tears he would have shed.

      Now there he stands inside his frame,
       Never again to come down,
       Instead of the smile he was painted with,
       All the world sees is a frown.

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Spark Light

Spark Light
Edward Clay
Created 1996

What mote of soul
clothed in words.
Comes forth from inside.
Born to be voiced for others to hear,
To answer need for it to exist,
To respond to drives inside
as basic as breath.
To put forth
from the dark shrouded places inside of me.
Something of the light
into the light of the world around.
Possibly
it will fade
into the vast places of the world
to die.
But my hope is
that it will spark light
in another’s spirit

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Sorrows Sea

Sorrows Sea
Edward Clay
created October 2016

The lonely hearts traveling life’s road
are legion.
The sad moments a sea of sorrow.
That simple words I find in my own soul,
Spoken with honest feelings
might lodge in others and help.
So the words come
my heart responds and hope lives.
To speak something
might reduce the legion of lonely hearts,
Might lower the sea of sorrow.