A Face Inside – Inanities4

I still walk past the gaze of that building
Squirming, made self conscious by
Invisible eyes that observe every move
As once I feared God did.
Its windows strip away my anonymity.
Fanning out from its façade
An auditorium of several yards
Where I, its focus, lose invisibility.
Stage fright freezes my facial mobility
Into impulsively chosen masks to
Hide the truth of hopes fragility.
Still, [...]

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SURFING YOUTH

I’m not as senseless as you say.
I’m young enough to see tomorrow as another day.
I’ve watched the news, it don’t make sense,
Careless destruction, unexplainable violence.
Well I don’t want to know, can you tell me you do?
You say I sound inane, but I’ve listened to you.
When the sun’s shining and the waves are rolling in,
when I [...]

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Valentine Poems

Love poems to print off for Valentines Day
LOVE OF A HUSBAND *
To my dear and loving husband by Anne Bradstreet

ROMANTIC LOVE *
How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

WONDROUS LOVE *
I carry your heart with me by ee cummings
DEEP LOVE *
My luve’s like a red, red [...]

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….NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE YOU…

It is you,
you who I love
with a heart straining to please
unsure of myself, caring too much
to pretend it doesn’t matter and
helpless as an infant in my need.
Oh, but I love you,
will love you
through days after nights
while your smile remains gentle
and your touch so firm.
Then when the storms in your eyes
threaten darkly to break, I will
defend [...]

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BOTANICAL GARDENS DREAM

Where would I be now, had I believed
in your dream Botanical Garden of Love ?
( without rain or insects )
Had I chosen to live in your
carefully controlled ideal landscape
with you as my God ?
Memories, laughter, the clown ; You –
with the high cheek bones of a gypsy
and the ever watchful eyes of a hawk.
The tight [...]

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