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Jamie May 2016
Do you look out where the waves touch the shore?
I do
Where high in the sky the light ***** birds soar?
I do

Up in the sky where the clouds meld with blue?
I see
High above me with no payments due?
I see

Do you look out where the lights touch the tree?
I do
Where glist'ning and glinting I know I should be?
I do

Swallowed by fields we lie side by side?
I stand
Closing our eyes as we dream of the tide?
I stand

One with the ocean and one with the land
Jamie May 2016
Listen

Listen closely

Listen hard

Listen long,

Listen like the last thing you will hear
is your own heartbeat
straining from its cage of ribs
to fly with the others

Look

Look closely

Look long

Look hard

Look up to that velvet sky like it is the last time
you will truly see those reaches
and watch as your brilliant soul flutters
in rhythm with those stars

Listen closely

Look long

Listen hard

Pinpricks of light above you
are a thousand souls shining as they dance
watch in wonder as you join them
those glimmering crystals of light

in the far off reaches of the universe

in the dark and unending night
Jamie May 2016
Is the thing that saves us
Love? Love
can only be found and
It
Can never be bought
True happiness?
a lie
Because peace ISN'T
real
Because life IS
fake
Because the masks we wear are
our true skin
Our dreams are
just figments of our imagination, not real Those faults in yourself?
Others see them too
Invisible
NOT
seen
You are
alone
NOT
With FRIENDS
Freedom
Is our call
WAR!
Not
PEACE
To Love
is to
To surrender
and that is wrong
To hate is right
They say
and we believe them?
This is an inverse poem, read it top to bottom for one meaning and then bottom to top for another.
Jamie May 2016
Outside these walls the fury rings
Screaming over broken things
Do I stay and wait for dawns gold wings
Or shall I risk what nighttime brings

Outside these walls amongst the roar
As black waves crash upon glass shore
And moonlight streams across the moor
The sea and sky do clash in war

Outside these walls I wish to go
Into night as dark as wings of crow
Where midnight moon doth not sink low
But casts instead an eerie glow

Outside these walls the monsters leer
I swallow an unbridled fear
As safety now is all but near
Outside these walls that keep me here
Jamie May 2016
Where sleeping buds do lie in wait
where every flower sighs,
the summer breeze comes not too late
as Springs cool chill dies,


Bluebirds in the sky do sing
as down below they dance,
turning lines and in a ring
gives revelry a chance,


Swirling dress and laughter
rings around the wooded grove,
as masks before and after
lie above the skirts they wove,


The dancers in their frenzy
do not realize right from wrong,
as high above the crowded wood
the bluebirds stop their song

— The End —