We shall see with our own eyes,

hear with our own ears,

feel with our own hearts.

We shall speak our own words,

and know the truth

in the breath of our own air.

No one will tell us differently.

No one owns the dirt beneath our feet.

We shall say as we please,

do as we please,

and be…

as we please.

 

 

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Peggy Penny

 

 

 

The last breath of love,

aimless in exile.

Learning that silence is noble

and sorrow hardest on a bleeding heart.

Don’t tell me it’s late.

The wind is stale

and the crowd thins against a starved horizon.

Don’t tell me it’s late.

Flashing a dream

of a beautiful needful thing.

If I were younger I’d blush.

But It shall never be too late.

 

 

 

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When it is finally ours,

we can not cage the minute.

Faith is only unto ourselves

and choice becomes the innocent.

 

 

 

It is out of bounds now,

the season is gone.

Here, the pivoting searchlight probes

beyond advice or reason.

My youth was spent

in tear drops and flowers gathered.

Once the wine of summer love,

which no longer matters.

 

 

Where love,

the strongest and deepest of all emotions

harbors hope,

I look for definition.

Romantic,

irrational,

attraction.

Where love keeps secrets

there is the imagination.

The dreams of all the things I want to someday say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The living world is a continuum.

Only naiveté believes is fixed

in a higher order of things.

 

 

True beauty in comprehensive nebulae,

the biggest event in our lives.

Covers the skies from right ascension.

Tharsis volcanoes and dimensions

unwilling to spend the night.

Erupt, relieved and overjoyed

to see we are together, peeping through time.

 

 

In the morning, I bathed my intelligence

on last night’s wish.

I owned a magnificent memory,

more than the midst of overwhelming sorrow.

I turned to verse

to comfort myself

and derived fresh joy and new meaning.

 

 

Dark my light.

Darker still my desire.

My soul, half maddened

shows a fraying edge.

Feminine, in miles of softness,

now hardened in heart.

 

 

With all my heart,

I saw who he was.

Traveled through his eyes

to his spirit, pure and simple.

In all honesty,

I found him sincere and modest.

The most beautiful man in the world.

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The Language of Love

 

 

The language of love

took me by surprise.

Touched me with a rhythm

that’s older than the sky.

The language of love.

A message from above.

Taught me with a wisdom

that’s warmer than the sun.

 

 

Allen’s Theme

 

No ordinary man waits,

from a book he reads.

His heart in the still air

of music crying to be heard.

The moon shines clear and cold

upon a golden girl.

Her voice, a soul untouched by sin.

In sorrow, this theme he heard.

Every night in a dream,

she tells the twilight hour.

Each flower is it’s own.

In heaven plays a child, she is alone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pale crowned with calm

his languid lips are sweeter

than love’s.

Kisses softer

than rose buds

and whispers stranger

then Apollo’s song.

 

 

You are the gravity of the moon,

distracting me off course.

Pulling me toward you.

A reminder

of how far I have come

and will go.

What I leave behind,

what I know.

The questions that say,

"the truth sounds like a lie."

Wings,

and freedom

and the open sky.

 

 

Where looming shadows dwell at will,

may the words of love I’ve spoken

empty your heart of all doubts

and silence them forever.

 

 

Give me your smile, one smile.

Kiss me as though you believe that you love me.

Whisper to me three little words that will be

neither willing nor reluctant.

 

 

 

 

 

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My twin soul and I

tell of the final truth of love,

which waits for us to discover.

Of love

determined and anxious to share.

We must taste it all

without sentiment.

Arriving at the truth with no logic.

Because we exist in the future.

My twin soul and I.

We immediately understand each other.

 

 

Time is trickling down

the lines of my palm.

In a generous song,

I first saw him and fell in love.

I count days in a row.

I look in my crystal ball.

I watch him from afar

to assure that nothing goes wrong.

 

 

Under the open sky,

in the sultry solstice of summer.

Her spirit child within,

a deeper shadow has fallen.

And from the youthful fields,

a fragrance lifts

from the celestial flowers she gathers.

In tiny bundles within her small hands,

they grasp the fragments of playthings.

More in stride,

while hiding from the sun,

he accepts her faithful part.

Deep are his tones and solemn,

as she plays house on his heart.

 

 

 

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Wild as all regret,

sent up in silence from among our prayers.

It is but a vain belief.

Today will be dying.

 

 

His eyes were night eyes,

lit by silver moonlight.

Our love is frail as life itself.

We kiss as though

there is no tomorrow.

And promise

as though there is no yesterday.

 

 

With her face pale

and her light eyes dim

that fastened men to her,

she still loved him a little.

With her heart muted silent,

she came to call on him.

While plain in her dress

and simple in her words,

she said the word, "please,"

like a soft aphrodisiac,

keeping all her smiles to herself.

A man would be wise to love her back

and know he could never trap her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Once yours,

I could never be again.

The sun has set on our summer romance.

Once yours,

I could never be again.

Both remembering

that once loved,

I could never be forgotten.

 

 

Mutely appeal the hidden feelings

hiding the sky’s happy blue.

Be still, one evening God will lead me to you.

 

 

Sweet smiling Allen,

loveliest of all the charms.

A year elapse, return to view

your rich and cumbrous crown.

Dear, lovely owner of ease and grace,

and talking whispers others make.

Upon your face, I bless the day

that we should meet again.

 

 

I dreamed I never did.

I wished I never tried.

Then, I asked myself,

"is that right?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When the time comes

and when love appears,

where, then shall we glitter?

Triumphant in our eyes.

Where then?

We, the proud owners of a charm.

 

 

I am a driven spirit.

I hold my head up high.

I won’t be detoured from my vision,

Rock Religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FORGIVE ME

In broad daylight, with Poet eyes, I recognize what I deserve.

Holding my breath, I remind myself to also hold my nerve.

In long strides, with pride, I tell myself persistence.

Stretch out your hand, I ask, please, give me your assistance.

Time, it passes so fast.

The gray in your hair reminds me

how foolish we’ve been.

A bridge of light reaches out and tells us the truth.

Who, fills your dreams deep in the night?

Awake to my call

and we will be

two angels kissing.

There in the night, unafraid, we made up each other.

Who, answers your needs, and just won’t believe, in anything ugly.

On this Sunday, with tears, I must tell you good bye.

Holding my breath so I won’t cry, I fumble.

The right road and knowing eyes, I understand the lessons I must learn.

Hold my hand and tell me, you will also hold to your word.

Who, more so to trust, then the one that you love.

Is anything sacred?

Who better to see, why won’t you please, forgive me.

Oh, won’t you please, I’ll ask on my knees,

forgive me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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