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Mary-Eliz Apr 2018
did you have any garments
that were not a shade of blue?
that's what I see you in
when I stop and think of you

you loved to tell the story
of your own sister's slip
I think it was at my wedding
how funny
you would quip
that your own sister
would say
and say it right to you
your dress shows off...
but wait
they're not
your eyes aren't blue

now sometimes
when I "see" you
a vision of time gone by
you wear your color
a childlike smile
and a glimmer
of blue in your eyes
My mom had very dark brown eyes but both her sibs had very blue eyes. I guess that's partly why my aunt got confused. Since I just posted the silly one about the girl who wore only purple I thought I'd dig out this old one about my mom's love of blue.
  Apr 2018 Mary-Eliz
L B
Noting how the birds believe in courtship
on grass
in trees
with song
in sky
They seek each other--
hoping
dancing
singing
Starting nests to please and
bringing food and
silly trinkets
Cooing
muttering
flappings
Taking so much time

He with color and display a-strutting
She,
founders
tentative in disbelief
around the edges of his glory
mesmerized

All
a tender sloping
toward desire
Spring 4-13-18
  Apr 2018 Mary-Eliz
Dr Peter Lim
Dear brain cells of mine
I'll teach you how to dance
you live in silence and never have known sunshine
come out from your darkness--this is your chance-

among your siblings you intertwine
you must be weary of every glance
facing one another--- it would do you fine
if you would accept my invitation to the dance.
Mary-Eliz Apr 2018
Did you ever consider
that the amazing work
The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha
"Don Quixote"
could be thought of as
being "tilt-illating"?
Deepest apologies to Cervantes...and everyone else! :-)
  Apr 2018 Mary-Eliz
Stephen S
Let me out...I am the fury

Let me out...I am the pain

Let me out...I am the growing storm

That brings the driving rain.

Loose the shackles...I want freedom

Loose the shackles...Set me free

Loose the shackles...let me be those things

that I know I can be.

Break the chains...I've served the sentence

Break the chains...I've paid the price

Break the chains...The judge has ruled

and I won't be put on trial twice.

Tear the walls down...make 'em shatter

Tear the walls down...piece by piece

Tear the walls down...wreck the prison,

and let the dark confinement cease.

Smash the doors...the game has started.

Smash the doors...the race is on.

Smash the doors...And keep on running

until the coming break of dawn.

Let me out...I am the chaos.

Let me out...I am the deep.

Let me out...I've long been resting,

but I've no more time for sleep.
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