Tag: love poetry
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Agenda for Lovers
Let’s take it easy today. Just a few fireworks. A little bit of birdsong Linking up the treetops. A couple of new stars To stud Orion’s belt. Then as a nightcap (If you’re not too tired) We’ll compress it all And let it all out again, Remaking the universe Better and gentler. That should be…
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Coin Purse
Like telling the rosary it was your daily rite You always explained though there was no need Quarters go in first (for the full moon) then nickels then dimes (it wanes and wanes) pennies last of all (their copper sheen is the new moon rusting away) This done you would shake it exactly three times…
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Sunday Night
we fret ourselves to ashen little nubs talking of the week to come of the Sisyphus-grind the lampreys of obligation of five days nearer death over it all hangs a curious pleasure: rain awaited on a sweltering day thus our delay- ing the inevitable touch the skin-to-skin friction the cloudburst when it is done we…
Thomas R. Keith Poetry 