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Run with me Sammy
Hold onto the trails of
imagination. I loveĀ 
your touch.
You pour through
the branches of my life
like sunbeams through
cognac.

Caroline Shank
came a virus
out of the
east
and it has proven
to be a hideous
beast

its assailing doesn't
seem to
discontinue
ever its looking for
a populated
venue

our global community
being harassed around the
clock
and always wondering
where it will pull into
dock
  
the taunting menace
of its monstrous
spread
is a constant which
so troubles the
head
When I think of you,
I hear a marimba in my head.
I'm lost like a stray cat.
Baby, I swear I'll hop a train
and head west, to roll away
from the memory of you.
This mad hatter moon lights
my way, and I'm done
holding on.  I'm getting a
bottle of whiskey, and drinking
it until you become a
blurry memory.
Then I'm jumping that train.
This is another poem I wrote off the cuff for the Tom Waits Challenge
 Jun 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal
Lama
little star around a house
surrounded by silver flowers

nightgown selflessly arouse
to greet moon in the drawer

hey there little lady, will you bow?
I hid pain with thy fierce power

thank the heavens I never drowned
gentle feet obscure sand a slight dour

tears full of stories books could douse
guidance awaits in demolished towers
Janus-faced, she sits in her
Sinister bathing tub
Cleansing herself from
Fallen lovers

The very ones
She devised subtle ends to
Lest they should claim
Her heart for a kingdom

Vandals of her plumage
Whom she allowed
To drink from her stream
Once or twice

A god of vengeance sent her
A message in a bottle today
To prove the origin of her flow
And remind her that time is

Fly-by-night
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