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Thomas Jun 2020
Azaleas in Spring
Know their blush will soon wither.
Still grateful, they bloom.
For a friend
Thomas Apr 2020
If, but a moment,
she's held by the air
steeping in the still light,
and decides it belongs not
to the bells or the Hands
of the wall or those to come --
but in hers.

If, but a moment,
she sees what's for
a thousand night's been sung,
And yet, it rests not
in the forms or firmament
pitched upon the dark of covered Eyes --
but in hers.

If, but a moment,
by her grace,
she may make herself
or more what she wills.

Then, but a moment,
may I be.
Thomas Apr 2020
Some faint lights' flicker
warms, once cold, the April earth
and the soul it's for.
Thomas Apr 2020
As I looked up,
under the night's blue overhung,
A moonlit hollow.
I could not know what the people were,
nor the things,
That grew within the garden walls.

But I was not saddened,
I was not cold,
Beyond a closed window's glow,
and hearing only the rustling
Of grass in the gutter.
Thomas Jun 2020
Sleepy looks in bed,
Met for only the instant,
But how slow it's sped
Thomas Jun 2020
If you will my roots to rise
We shall go on stumbling.
Surrounded with memories
Of distant places.
Tea
Thomas Apr 2020
Tea
Steam rising upward
Blurs the lamp in your glasses,
The tea is perfect.
Thomas May 2020
I think hours about that minute, months past,
Wishing my cab hadn't come.
Wishing we hadn't places
Nor people to be.

Though few nights more than strangers,
Our dream striding cities and oceans,

Not a thing was out of place

Simply and so naturally,
As I held you for the last time,
Felt your lips on mine,

Then walked away.
Thomas Aug 2022
One life, a moment
to meet and to be met by
love in all its forms.
Thomas Jun 2020
But I wonder,
What will you think
When you're not alone
Thomas May 2020
We are thrown to the Earth -- what for?
Without even the least mark to bear,
Waves that toss and **** and side the shore.
In the breaking ocean -- what glory is there?

Still I cannot think by chance it's kept,
For we share time and its passing, fleet,
For our eyes, find the other's step,
Our voices, their echoes meet.

Rathering shed our memory, more our name,
Of the climbing dawn, our love beneath it,
Than serve cruel reason and falsely claim,
We hadn't been born to see it.
For Mother's day 💐
Thomas Apr 2020
Thousand formless threads
lull tides in one who keeps such
webs of restless peaks.

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