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Clifford Letts Dec 2018
Water soft and sensual
Healing cleansing resonating
Sinuous and curving
Yet unforgiving penetrating

Each watercourse forever probing
Quietly waiting for decay
To take a path of least resistance
To life sustained or drained away

Abundant in it’s everywhere
In waterways the great divide
Born to breathe we water weave
The plangent ice sings woe betide

Plumes from human inundation
Have made our skies a one-way door
A wall of pent-up energy
Call oceans north and south to war

Commanders of the tidal waves
With marching orders they proclaim
Send deluge forces on white horses
Their world of water will reclaim
Based on "The Chimes of Freedom" Bob Dylan

"Through the city's melted furnace,
unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden
as the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells
before the blowin' rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning"
Clifford Letts Dec 2018
Those letters that I wrote you
That read the words I never said
About the times we spent together
Things we could have done instead

Recalling dreams of living easy
The sound of songs we made our own
With all the living possibilities
On many roads we shared alone

Walking high roads and the low roads
Climbing rugged mountain slopes
Taking weather as it always is
Wherever next that kept our hopes

Leaving remnants of our storyline
In the orchards of our days
Written in the minds of left behinds
Who shared our long hot summer days

Many well meant conversations
Every wistful heartfelt sigh
Driven on by hopes of no regrets
To write that final line goodbye
Remembering Peter Sarstedt's lovely Valentine song

"Oh the play goes on,
But the meaning's gone
And it looks as though we're running out of endings.
And the maddening thing is,
That while everybody worries ;
No one seems to do a thing about it."
Clifford Letts Dec 2018
What’s your poison whiskey gin
On either or I am sanguine
Tasteless ***** spirit hit
So, no one near will notice it

*** refreshes empty cups
A brandy fix restores your ups
All in all, the champagne thrills
‘til eyelids droop and temper spills

Come on, come on just one more drink
To bring my head back from the brink
Then lay in bed sleep like a log
Arise red-eyes we’ll walk the hairy dog

By Ropey Rhyme https://lyriclines-lettsy.blogspot.com/2018/12/whats-your-poison.html
In the jolly season where overdoing is a ever-present danger alcohol tops the list of OK things that cause the most collateral damage.

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