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Oh Lucy
Oh Lucy, dear Lucy —
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Is it true, are you blue?
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Oh Lucy, poor Lucy —
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How can we help you?
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Oh
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Aug 28, 2024
Farewell (For Now)
We meet again under a new sky;
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We live and love and laugh before
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once more we have to say goodby
1m
Apr 30, 2020
Ad Meliora
The diffused gleam of jaded dreams
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like a siren call upon our desires deep
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to sink again in thei
1m
Apr 29, 2020
My First Person
I was a little older than six
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when you came to us,
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ruddy cheeked
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with a shock of curly hair, /
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Apr 28, 2020
Sleep
If you let me sleep
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I will not ask to be free.
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I will don the chains
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you insist are not a leas
1m
Apr 27, 2020
Sunday Afternoon
The squall rousted the last of the roses,
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a flutter amongst the mango blossoms.
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The storm billow
1m
Apr 26, 2020
Half-Baked
Have to forage for words that I can weave
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into cogent verses that sound sublime.
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Try to hatch a
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Apr 25, 2020
Papaya
Bottom heavy, firm to touch,
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summer flushed round cheeks,
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pleasantly pitted. Stripped nude,
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sw
1m
Apr 24, 2020
Coffee (Routine Morning)
C – me, slumped over in bed,
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tousle-headed, still half-dreaming.
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O – the yawn, long as it is wid
1m
Apr 23, 2020
Her
I
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smile when
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she says she
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loves me simply
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because that is what
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all mothers do. She nods, /
1m
Apr 22, 2020
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