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Dodging memories that bring me pain
I scurry through the obstacles
I set up for my foolish self
To keep me from the place I need to be.

I bruise my shins repeatedly
On dangers that I did not see
Due to the fancy mask I wear
That blocks half of my vision.

The need for haste is manifest
By ever looming banks of fog
That somehow scheme to bar my way
And keep me from salvation.
                 ljm
Been to Gilead 4es
 Mar 26 Linden Lark
Aahana
Maybe flowers were created to teach us that
Beautiful things don't last forever.
Hummingbirds are sweet
           Small and cute
Hummingbirds go
                  Tweet, tweet
           Hum, hum
Their so much fun
Free, full of energy
Fly in southern air
Bird feeders everywhere
Hummingbirds  soar high
                  In the sky
Tweet, tweet
Hum, hum
Hummingbirds are sweet
Can you hear sounds of life?
It’s everywhere
People working along the  country street
I do miss the silence
Enjoying nature at its finest
Gazing at the sun it looks hazy
It feels like a lazy afternoon
Once, you bloomed with reckless grace,
soft petals blushing in love’s embrace.
The wind would sigh your fragrant name,
as morning light adorned your frame.

Held in hands that trembled sweet,
pressed to lips where longing meets.
A whispered promise, a fleeting vow,
yet time has traced you different now.

Your crimson fades, your petals fall,
but love once touched you—that is all.
For though you wilt in golden dusk,
you lived, you loved, and that’s enough.
Salt-wept and tide-lost,
foam-laced marionette drowns
once, the sea held hands.

It's a good place,
The place we are.
Even in the cold weather,
I know I have your warmth to hold me over.
Because after all the freezing winds,
Comes the happy days of spring,
And this spring, I'll be happy with you.
So won't you get your converse on,
To come flower picking with me.
We can skip down flower fields,
Picking plenty of rosy red poppies.
Love grows with the seasons
 Mar 26 Linden Lark
Lyle
sleep
 Mar 26 Linden Lark
Lyle
When I sleep
I am at peace
I don't have to think
about you or them or anything
When I sleep
time slips too fast
and soon I'll have to wake
and I dread that moment
for when I sleep
I am at peace
 Mar 26 Linden Lark
Lyle
this is the result of you
look!
at this, at me!
this is the result of you
this is what happens when you
do as you do
these are the results of you
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