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Rose in Bloom

my heart's adrift in petals, flower-framed while feelings fruit as cultivars unnamed, the hue symbolic, brighter than the sun and pure as muted pastels do not run oh, do not run from me, dear unashamed, hold not the thorns that leave the hand inflamed but by the budding let your hand be claimed by one whose promised bloom is just begun whose heart's adrift in petals, flower-framed and even counting all the ways proclaimed in petals and in poems fair and famed these fade when plucked, their lives all dead and done their colors run and all is dyed in dun we'll live for longer, hear what I proclaimed for hearts adrift in petals, flower-framed

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Sonnet IX

If I were to count all the days of mine And keep the jolly best safely aside, I wonder, would they still shimmer and shine Unwashed by each sudden sorrowful tide? Would the gift of cheer prance from cheek to cheek If arid the eyes of a happy swain? Would laughter now flow through each teary creek And there be rainbows, bereft spells of rain? And bloom today and each coming morrow In a bough of joy, merriness and glee, And cast away man's everyday sorrow Blind to what it were worth to thee. And only when the sun dispels the Nile    Will wither the sunflower's sun kissed smile.       

Autumn Prompt, 2011

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When Death Do Us Part

Please follow link to the original piece and do not favourite this copy Weep not, lover, when my lips do part To let slip the tongue of the reaper’s kiss, To press upon my palate his black art That moves my soul unto the deep abyss. Fret not when sweat beads upon my brow And gleams against the pallor of my skin, Let not my death blemish your peaceful soul, Nor the dreams we shared be disavowed, When at last my spirit takes to wing. Weep not, lover, when those bells toll. Fear not, lover, when my breath is stilled And my voice a hollow memory in these halls; When the cup of my life has been over-filled And that grim seraph s

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