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Richard Grahn Apr 2017
I’m sitting here
While you are sleeping...

Thinking…

How sweet it is
To watch you dreaming.
This is another scrap from the shoebox. Probably written down on a napkin in a bar years ago.
Richard Grahn Apr 2017
Traces of moonlight
Always dancing in starlight:
Turn on your love light
Richard Grahn Apr 2017
Two hearts both laughing
This sweet song everlasting
Twisting with passion
  Apr 2017 Richard Grahn
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Heedlessly, do I wonder
if perhaps you, too, are alone this night;
gazing beneath the veil of a starlit sky
gliding in the vast emptiness
between the starts.
Richard Grahn Apr 2017
Where did all this come from?
Where did it all begin?
Don’t let me sit here wondering now
I don’t know where it eventually ends
I put the words down on the page
I let them simmer in the light of day
There’s nothing really stopping me when
I type them down to make them stay
I can’t let go of this little thread
It spins itself as I watch it fly
My fingers touch the hallowed page
The light goes on and I start to say
The things I’ve thought
The way they’re made
There’s nothing here that can’t be said
I won’t slow down or go around
It’s through the wall I step again
Did you see what I had to say?
Do you think there’s better way?
Let me know and I won’t deny
I caught you watching so you can’t pretend
I’m living the dream as you walk on by
I’m happy in this place we’ve never been
Writing for me is pretty much a spontaneous indulgence. Knowing how to stop having fun is impossible. Well, I do require sleep and sustenance. Still, I love weaving a poem as it comes into my head one line at a time. Sometimes there is a basic floorplan to follow. Other times it is a pure “stream of consciousness”. Either way it’s all spontaneous.
Richard Grahn Apr 2017
entranced in moonlight
a moth swims through the pale glow:
the heavens d
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4/25/2017
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