Tweet New York Wedding Ten perfect days brilliant sunshine New York glittering implacably in December cold as dawn’s hope etches a patina of gold on giant barkless trees Who will die today what new joy is born my once tiny fragment of fragile life is woman now it seems and leads me through the magic […]

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TweetBefore the Void Intimacy like reverence roots in metaphor soul heart mind holiness deep That whereof we cannot speak we must pass over in the silence of a love that needs no words Tender sight touch thought connected as one before the void Hold me know my mind touch my heart see my soul and […]

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TweetTrust The Wind I offered you the chance to fly the high places where the cool clean air bathes the unstepped unspoilt heights in the purity of life Where love in the ecstasy of weightlessness can breathe the eternity of a timeless present shared You flew trusting me wing to wing a little way but […]

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Tweet The Blind Man’s Stick The blind man’s stick sees his world tapping truth into a sightless mind. He may misread the stick, but it cannot lie its urgent finger tip escapes dependency This reaching out to feel the world life to lifeless wood his mind bestows and through this probing touch he knows what […]

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TweetLove Is Not A Young Man’s Game Can you feel her sadness before she sheds her tears Can you sense her doubts before she shows her fears Do you simply hold her when that is all she needs Do you hear her not just listen wherever her heart leads Do you know her body as […]

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Tweet Eternity Eternity seen as endless time leaves life’s mystery untouched A sentence with no point a story with no end a journey with no arrival a life with no youth or age knowledge with no wisdom beauty with no rebirth and love without its deepest power of loss Death is part of the grammar […]

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Tweet Winter Rain-teared trees carry lightly the loss of their fallen leaves naked wet-black they guard the gate of Winter At their rooted feet beneath the undug grave-soiled earth the hope of Spring tomorrow’s ice-hard life slumbers Chill-wind fingers tease and taunt the mourner’s warmth his blood life ebbing back to save his heart Death-white […]

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TweetBefore It Is Too Late It’s too late for me now they’ve gone away but not for you for the present I am here and here I’ll stay Who they were I never really knew their love was all I needed and I just took it all as selfishly I grew I only ever guessed […]

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TweetRemembrance – Your Day This is my remembrance day no bands or marching men no pomp or circumstance just private cherished memory This is my thoughtful day when I think just of you your kindness and your love the comfort I could see In your eyes This is my day to miss you feel you […]

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TweetThe Blue Hour The icy cold of fear-filled night retreats before the warmth of dawn In the breath-held pause between the blue hour Madrugada bewitches artists defying pigments eluding skill to represent The death-blood blue of night comes to life and saturates the coming day with the gift of lifelight.

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