tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89120948167803279752024-02-20T07:24:57.435-05:00Excursions and DiversionsSteve Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818671944215117618noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-76749436977218686362023-02-16T09:03:00.000-05:002023-02-16T09:03:42.410-05:00The Ship From Delos<p class="MsoNormal"> By Steve King</p><p class="MsoNormal">©2023 All Rights Reserved <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">White moon </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Upon the broken sea.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Winds course, and then they go.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Go and rise again to sing,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As if to hie the vagrant tides,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Force each flagging sail,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pause to gather voice again,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tiring soon, it seems again,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of all the age-old hymns.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Until the ship at last comes in.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He wakes to breaking seas,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The usual clamor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He’d had enough of dreams,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enough of friends,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And a surfeit of life;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cared not for his every care,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Had passed the threshold</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of his every grief,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sung of all he might desire.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He could not yield,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dared not yield to friends,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Would not begin again.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For where better?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And with what better men?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like the winds,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And every old sunrise, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His days had come and gone.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He bade them, fond,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And girt his heart, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To augur no surprise.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">©Steve King 2022</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All rights reserved</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I sit in a room</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That is filling with their words,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each sound rising as if it were anew,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Separate still and ever out of sorts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hear them even now,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before they are complete, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every first and last:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How these words may dwell,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Freed from their obscure and beaten shore.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps they do not know them in this way,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The way that I do hear them told,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The way that I can see them made.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But each knowing must suit as fair</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As any knowing may,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As fair as mine might serve them,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Were I inclined to say. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Always a reach for solace,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But not for silence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Extolling and abjuring,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That old desire to condole, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Raptures near yet ever out of reach.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The thought that every word </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Might serve for any song,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A hint of some small hope </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That swings on the blunt edge</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of this noise, this stir,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That taunts upon the busy air.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As if there really were a song </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For every wish that’s ever heard,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As if the touch of every jumbling dream</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Holds well enough to carry us along.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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Steve King</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">All
rights reserved</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">Do
you think Narcissus knew</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">Every
shadow in his pool</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">As
he knelt to ponder love?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">Did
he fathom new and strange</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">In
the darker eddies there,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">That
pressed the corners of his frame?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">As
echoes of his dreams unwound</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">He
mourned the beauty love had found. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">Bitter
tears rained all around,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;">To
fall as flowers on the dying ground. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">©Steve
King 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All
rights reserved</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">i</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today I am surprised </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That I am surprised today.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It seems I breathed an unfamiliar word,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That gathered to me, measuring the air.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A strange tongue speaking yet in stranger ones,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wilder music to cling upon me,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like clouds and gales upon the passive season,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Giving every name to light and dark,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And unthought visions in between.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It whispered, too, of strange desire,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Summoned old regrets, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Almost as friendly spirits after all,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That never would take flight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All fillips to some new imagining, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And every kind of sudden thing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That once might stream the dreaming night,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But now would dance upon my busy light.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leaves called in chorus,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Knee deep grasses hissed their harmonies,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alive to me, they seemed,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or moving with what I would take as life:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sentinels for the far keening voice,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That distant one I must at last attend,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each breeze now a most solemn fanfare,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heard, unheard, now heard again,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every falling echo leaving note,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another prelude rising to its place,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each gathered voice, insistent marriage </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of worship and command.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ii</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I plumb this new world </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And yet dare hope for more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greedy are the senses,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Filling now with my submerged intents,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Spawned from the uncertain depths</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To take their turn beneath the light, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Untethered now and finally free</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To fly at last from all untended hopes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">iii</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All desire, then,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alive with heavy mystery,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A presence come to harrow memory,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Revealing to my new regard</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That which I once had labored to forget,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or never truly knew—</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or knew, but in that street-smart kind of way</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That answered with sly ease</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At every call to meaning I had heard:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The reservoir of constant joke,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The turns of small evasion,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shades of sundry casual and well-intended lies,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The measure of equivocation,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And the easy acquiescence to all things</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That fair weather conviction </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Might manage to evoke,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As near to truth as lies might ever be.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And yet I knew they sang some truth of me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">True.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet not so.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not so sure</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As the unyielding reach </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of every lingered love,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whose hold would never loose</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The shades of sudden and unsettled dreams.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ever and unyielding,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sure, before, hereafter,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Always and invincible,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though not invincible</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Old lovers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">iv</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Captive, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A fractal specter,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whole in these my fragments, if at all,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fragile as a dreamless sleep,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That bears no weight of beauty.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I moved as if a stranger,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lost upon the once known paths,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Always walking, ever waiting,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Subject now to all emergent things.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The old joys of the clamorous street,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These are not for me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not now.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Their common music resonates,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Distant and discordant, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Without time or right of place.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The old epiphanies abate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tire, feel the world tire,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Relentless in its hurtle,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ever apace,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lugging its old life </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And the weight of all the new surprise, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All one and the many, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each rupture and each union,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Confusions and the graces,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every dread and death’s head,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The things that bloom in faintest light,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To trace for me the flow of surging dreams,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whose bounds must bear the death of every tide,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where every fate at last is satisfied,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The settling place of cold desire,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And shock of new surprise.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Caesura for the hum of grasses,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Subtlest harmony of breeze.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am the shadow of these things.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A stubborn thing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Still well alive in every word</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Old or unfamiliar.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alive yet in these living dreams</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That any unsought word might bring.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mindful of a sometime peace,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For restless shades that will not ease.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">v</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My thoughts may not for long forsake their times,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though passing griefs might struggle to deny.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those unfamiliar words unwind,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To frame these dreams of every kind,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All loves and shortfalls present now,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To measure, finally, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">what the world endows. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">©Steve King</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All rights reserved</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This window admits little light,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">even as the sky is lifting blue.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These morning clouds appear too soon.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Day upon day,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">measuring in moons</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and a slow dark drift of stars,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">all disappearing, while I try </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to purge these eyes of everything </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that would invent new dawns.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I called indeed at first</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from the distant center of a dream,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">dreamed that you had answered </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">through a dark cloud of your own.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I could not hold those meanings</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in a heart’s uncertain light,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so all the while I prayed to wake alone.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Watching to night’s latter end,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ll not disturb the shadows, no;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">nor any of the rising shades within</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that must at once be mine and yours. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or even you and me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These mingle in a kind of drizzle grey just now,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">not rich enough to pass for color,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">nor for
things found in a decent light of decent day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I stir now with desire as to a perfect stranger,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">just that way the perfect stranger knows,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">stretched beyond the bounds </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of new and old beginnings, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">those with neither name nor place,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and of each recollection </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">whispering the deaths of easy ends,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for I am poor at heeding these</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and shall not try again.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I seem but a dream, inviolate,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and would deny the moment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each thought retreats,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">spent waves slipping dark sands,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">lost to looming tides</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and the refuge of the deep.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet some true measure must abide</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to spin such shadows out of sight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some shall flee, while others keep;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">all else that’s left defies the old commands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What this may be, I render to your hands.</p>
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All rights reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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Release.</div>
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A notion, </div>
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altogether.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Remembered, </div>
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the ways</div>
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I gently betrayed</div>
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some things and those moments,</div>
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the castaway times.</div>
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<br /></div>
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A strange flight from language</div>
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and every reply</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that never made sense.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Awakened at last,</div>
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from old sweating dreams,</div>
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not quite memory,</div>
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but grown more real</div>
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with each new escape,</div>
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immersed in remains</div>
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of my clever refrains.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Still, daytimes I long</div>
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for night’s comforting chains.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Lark is
spinning in his songless height,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">the awesome
mountain winds pass where they will.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">My dreams are
well enough to hold each night,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">though every word
that might have served is stilled.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The high cascades
will hasten in descent,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">the killing
torrent, and the eddy’s foam,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">and finding their
true level, will be spent,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">to gather
once again in ocean home.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The peal of
music that did pitch my heart</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">returns to
play in memory sometimes;</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">but even
while faint melodies restart,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I cannot
these days conjugate their rhymes.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Adept false
prophets prosper everywhere,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">and every
grace I’d own is second guessed;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">now, always,
peace must conjure with despair,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">and paradise
contend with wilderness.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Yet every
moment brings a promising,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">a new
intention set to satisfy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The shades of
all regret must take to wing,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">so never more
to gather and deny.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And while I
wait to hear my Lark descend,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">each thought
anticipates his choired throat.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">Though bound
to earth, my hopes ever intend</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;">my soul to
soar once more and greet his notes. <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">A new poem for https://dversepoets.com/<br /></span></div>
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©2020 Steve King</div>
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All Rights Reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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What would I do if favored wishes</div>
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Came like the rains to cover me?</div>
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<br /></div>
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What would I do?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Would I content to empty my soul</div>
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of blazened dreams, untested hopes?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Every desire within my grasp,</div>
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Real to my eyes, each waiting sense.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Spent to time and easy use,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Mine no more.</div>
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<br /></div>
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What would I do?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>A little something for Joy’s 55</i></div>
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Steve King</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All
rights reserved</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
have not found traces </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
anything eternal </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
searching.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nor
held in my reflection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Any
measure save my own. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Each
gathered moment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Emptied
of all others,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Touch
of rumored spirits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fickle
as dying winds. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Found
amid strange silence,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wondering
at my place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
this peculiar dream.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Listening
in emptiness</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">For what silence shall sing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>
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by Steve King</div>
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© 2020 All rights reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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And now is winter well begun,</div>
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every old hard dream.</div>
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Forgotten, that fair suite</div>
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that flew the distant airs of spring.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Morns, I chant the same old lies:</div>
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how each new increment of evening sun</div>
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promises of kindlier things to come;</div>
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how darkness is that salutary thing </div>
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where one might pause</div>
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and get forgetting done.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A new poem for Joy's 55 </div>
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©<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Steve King</div>
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All rights reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Light gone,</div>
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curtain down</div>
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echoes ringing</div>
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in high shadows—</div>
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still he hears them,</div>
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live things he’d command to follow </div>
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through the exit door</div>
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briefly into blinding light.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And those faces—</div>
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pastiche of regard</div>
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that he used as his mirror</div>
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while he preened;</div>
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strained to see them, sly,</div>
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all downstage posing, to be sure,</div>
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not watching, not the way they looked at him,</div>
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not rapt and bold and senseless;</div>
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not like poor Narcissus, no,</div>
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caught up cold within his fatal gaze,</div>
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not at all, oh no.</div>
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They never knew he watched.</div>
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He must not lose himself in their plain sight,</div>
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could not lose himself,</div>
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they could not see him seeing.</div>
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He was more clever than that, he thought.</div>
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They were but the mirror,</div>
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reflecting, quick, the flash </div>
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of all his emptied art.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And where then might he turn?</div>
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There was not space enough to be</div>
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in the midst of the new emptiness.</div>
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Surely not the exit door, not yet;</div>
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not that undiscriminating light;</div>
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not that undirected clamor</div>
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brooking no silence, no graceful stop.</div>
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<br /></div>
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How might he own all that—</div>
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The indifferent stares</div>
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that would not recognize nor linger?</div>
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How might he hold those emptied eyes,</div>
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command such casual vision</div>
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to all his well-tuned verities.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Where, oh where to turn?</div>
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If only there were mirrors cast within,</div>
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if only he might satisfy himself</div>
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without resort to any art,</div>
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without regifting his whole world at large;</div>
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if only he could see the way they saw,</div>
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simple and with clarity.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Just for the moment,</div>
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moments like this,</div>
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when lights were faded</div>
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to their shadow homes on high;</div>
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with every echo and alarm</div>
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yet resonant, reprising absent charms.</div>
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by Steve King</div>
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© 2020 All rights reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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I have a favored window.</div>
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It draws the light</div>
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in tones I wish to see.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It gathers birdsong</div>
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from the depths of dawn,</div>
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and spills my dreams </div>
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upon the evening lawn.</div>
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<br /></div>
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There may be other windows</div>
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I might use.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Even rooms without a view.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But here I’ll stay to celebrate,</div>
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and ever more to muse.<br />
<br />
A new poem for the 55<br />
versiscape-lifesentences.blogspot.com </div>
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by Steve King</div>
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© 2020 All rights reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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Your speaking moves more than the air,
it seems.</div>
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I am, with every murmur, shaken
too,</div>
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transported always where your will
requires,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
my wishes, resonant at every turn,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
attend the lingering strains of
your desire.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Much stronger than the weight of
loud command,</div>
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your musings will demand obedience.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
You know that I am helpless to
ignore,</div>
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and every instant, as I lie in
wait,</div>
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my urgent station sighs aloud for
more.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Suspended like a mote in dim
moonlight,</div>
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my substance cedes to rapt
imaginings,</div>
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and, shedding every motive of my
own,</div>
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I fall upon the pleasures you might
bring,</div>
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awash, enfolded, no bright charm
deferred,</div>
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to search again the truth of all
your words.<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="s1"><i>For <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/01/writers-pantry-3-be-warm.html">Writers' Pantry #3</a> : Poets and Storytellers United </i></span></div>
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by Steve king</div>
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©2020</div>
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All rights reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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I trace the word, it becomes real</div>
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I breathe it to the world</div>
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and it is me</div>
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as a wind</div>
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sounding to the vaults of the earth</div>
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to stir a light within my every sense</div>
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<br /></div>
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I say and it is so</div>
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embracing now the distant things</div>
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even to the sun</div>
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brings them now to me</div>
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and I will now possess one meaning more</div>
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<br /></div>
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Dark air excites</div>
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and the quelled leaves</div>
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and the grasses<br />
</div>
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Each stone on the mountain</div>
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pebbles in the valley</div>
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waters will not then be still</div>
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<br /></div>
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I cannot know and will not care</div>
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who else may feel or see or know</div>
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or who would scoff or smile sly</div>
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<br /></div>
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And do not shrink from declination</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
or designs of their desires</div>
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<br /></div>
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How may I shrink from a new truth</div>
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the truth’s effect</div>
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the truth’s intent</div>
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that keeps me for an object</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the light of truth</div>
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the truth of light</div>
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that even lamps the catacomb</div>
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that shall inscribe the stars</div>
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by Steve King</div>
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All Rights Reserved </div>
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©2019</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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As I consider how I’ve sought for love</div>
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And found it so, only to seek again,</div>
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There comes that moment to deny all sense</div>
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When emptiness descends upon the heart</div>
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With doubt my spirit never would intend.</div>
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<br /></div>
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No peace may gather then, although one waits</div>
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For any hint of surety to rise,</div>
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And, caught upon the tides that gather life,</div>
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Those memories which pass for life revive.</div>
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And every station that my heart has known</div>
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Returns to claim a moment as before.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Though forfeit now, their beat is ever clear</div>
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To tell how dreams shall never sing as true,</div>
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How every hope that stalks the bright Abyss</div>
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Unearths old endgames posed once more as new,</div>
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And how old love forever shall conspire</div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To scatter
embers out from phantom fire.</span>
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© 2019 Steve King</div>
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All rights reserved</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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So now I am that widow guy,</div>
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pressed in these thoughts like widow’s weeds,</div>
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come near to end of time, it seems;</div>
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so near to end of days, must seem to all.</div>
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<br /></div>
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There are yet days.</div>
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Time is not stilled,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
nor are the dreams undone,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to hang like heavy husks </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
across the fallen backdrop </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of an endless, empty night,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
a million miles to see.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And memory,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
a pretty picture now,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
but strange, imperfect, an unfinished thought,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
where every echo plays</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
without its grounding harmony,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
songs of siren sorcery,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
promise unfulfilled,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and choruses of silence</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that linger, stranger still.<br />
<br />
<br />
A new poem for Open Link Night at https://dversepoets.com/ </div>
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I’d hoped that it might seem as one,</div>
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that each new treasure of intent</div>
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would gather inward every charm,</div>
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alone to each new moment then,</div>
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without beginnings, without end.</div>
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The issue of unsettling dreams</div>
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would scuttle back beneath the lees,</div>
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the tolling of uncertainty</div>
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displaced by melodies begun.</div>
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Desires one never knew to spend</div>
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might seize such moments to contend.</div>
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Yet every doubt shall resurrect</div>
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to seed new dreams and break amends,</div>
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undoing all prospective notes,</div>
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to quell new dawns with clouded suns.</div>
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And all invention soon erased</div>
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by tides of tears that need not wait</div>
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for virgin moons to call them out,</div>
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far wishes glinting there, dark stars.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The resting
place of all appeal</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>is quiet
soon and battened fast,</div>
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each unrecounted mood abates</div>
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to where silence must congregate,</div>
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the words gone still to mend a
peace,</div>
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and linger always out of reach.</div>
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And all that was important then</div>
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seems sunk to nothingness</div>
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again.<br />
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A new poem for the D'Verse Open Link Night <br />
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I would be ready, should it come tonight.</div>
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I wait upon all ends, as do we each,</div>
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have swept my mind of all moveable fears,</div>
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and tried to pierce a veil of fair unknowns.</div>
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I am impatient with the magic now,</div>
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have slipped the tether of old ritual</div>
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and left to other arms the shield of faith,</div>
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to feel at last the depth in every night</div>
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and sense the murmur that a new felt wind</div>
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inflects upon old spirits who will hear.</div>
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I watch while every dusk enfolds the world </div>
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within an unknown realm, myself half-seen</div>
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and half-seeing, now here, now there, now gone,</div>
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alike some shallow isle whose trace appears</div>
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but briefly in the movement of great tides.</div>
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My visions cannot capture all I see,</div>
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nor words translate the things I come to know.</div>
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And while old mysteries will not abate,</div>
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I wait upon no supernality.</div>
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For only I attend upon these times,</div>
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alone to every instant, as must be;</div>
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and every hard-felt limit that is found</div>
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records at least an impulse to break free,</div>
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to try this darkness, sometimes kindle light,</div>
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’til rest shall fall, like mist upon the night.<br />
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A new poem for Imaginary Gardens <br />
http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/</div>
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We tarried that first night upon the sands</div>
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and glimpsed of glinting waters that upheld</div>
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the sky and the unnumbered stars.</div>
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Stars so many I was blind to all.</div>
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Strange things I tried to say,</div>
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then silence so that none might come amiss.</div>
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There surely would be time for words</div>
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when dreams had come to pass,</div>
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just not quite then.</div>
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Never time for dreams;</div>
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nor for uncanny orisons,</div>
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which none inclined to hear.</div>
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And never time to understand</div>
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those spirits once so near to us,</div>
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that sang from everywhere.</div>
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Confusions reigned aplenty,</div>
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seeming without cause or cure</div>
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to ease my wonder at the way</div>
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we found our way from star-lit shores</div>
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and got ourselves to here.</div>
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I will not criticize for your half-truths.</div>
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Of our mean differences, say what you will</div>
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so it brings peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
shall not ask beyond</div>
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the looming limits of my disbelief.</div>
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The times have left us still, with only hope</div>
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to take the seat of dreams that would repair.</div>
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Subsume to silence, and I’ll join you there.</div>
Steve Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818671944215117618noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-40104059477359451252017-10-27T08:41:00.003-04:002017-10-27T08:41:42.757-04:00To See
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To see.</div>
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Such distractive sense.</div>
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The eye goes everywhere</div>
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there is a movement,</div>
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or that unsought touch,</div>
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or faint reflective answers</div>
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in another’s distant voice.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Always something here </div>
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to hold a moment and mind.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Yet still impossible to spy</div>
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the one who masquerades as me</div>
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in all that waiting world</div>
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where these fool scenes unwind.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Steve Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818671944215117618noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-68517248613944344382017-10-01T07:11:00.002-04:002018-12-14T06:24:30.801-05:00Sonnet Six<style>
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I don’t know what there is to write of love,</div>
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though others fill such pages quite with ease.</div>
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I can’t distill all meanings as I please,</div>
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describe sensations which are true enough</div>
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to colonize all realms of thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pause</div>
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at each astonishment that visits me,</div>
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and every unsought thrill that comes to be,</div>
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and never work to wonder of their cause.</div>
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All sly analogies escape my care,</div>
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and each coquettish fancy that occurs</div>
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belies the feeling that ought only stir</div>
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in truest commerce with the heart’s affairs.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In grand
comparisons I will not delve,</div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>for love should seem like nothing
save itself.</span>
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The blind view</div>
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and that hot rain—</div>
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each new storm</div>
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a sudden death, </div>
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soon again.</div>
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The recalculation</div>
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of every old move:</div>
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merely an echo,</div>
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a hard refrain.</div>
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The world will turn.</div>
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I cannot say</div>
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where true horizons fall.</div>
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Light to night,</div>
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night upon light,</div>
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every age must scribe its own,</div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">though
some stand everywhere alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A new poem for Friday 55 with Joy Jones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://versiscape-lifesentences.blogspot.com/ </span>
Steve Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818671944215117618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-86490651829636037062017-09-14T10:12:00.000-04:002017-09-14T10:12:23.739-04:00The Gathering
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He leaned so naturally,</div>
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bent to shadow by the moon.</div>
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He asked if I had a match.</div>
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for the times are old.’</div>
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So soon, it gathers like a dream,</div>
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the waiting while his moon burns hot,</div>
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and all my world grows cold.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A poem for Joy Jones’
Friday 55</i></div>
Steve Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818671944215117618noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-12697691847722436592017-09-08T09:23:00.001-04:002017-09-08T09:23:49.242-04:00Adept
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I wish that there were fewer words,</div>
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or better weight to fill them up,</div>
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with sense alive to leap each pause,</div>
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and means to separate all ends from cause.</div>
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This randomness I’ve long endured,</div>
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I cannot help but mourn each blank,</div>
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adept, it seems, but never sure.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A new verse for Friday
55,</i></div>
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