Alison Mary Dunn Poems

I want to throw myself away into the graceful light of words
And cast my soul among the waves that sweep into the sea of knowing
Where wisdom breaks against the shore to fill the void that never sleeps
Cooling these fires inside my soul that keep my happiness from growing
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Late into the night & the wee small hours
We’d raise our glasses and toast to life
While heaven and earth evoked their powers
We’d deliberate o’er all trouble and strife
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Thanks for all your love
For there’s been so much of it
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I follow uncertain lines
Because I like not knowing
The paths within these rhymes
Nor when or where they’re going
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Oh how your words come in me
when you exhale
Each time you blow
I sway a little
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Out from this craft
these thoughts fall down
With eyes kept shut
and backwards jump
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How many ticks of the clock must I hear
As the seconds click past joy of joys disappear
In these moments I breathe taking time out and in
to the noise of my patience waring gradually thin
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The lights are out upstairs in me
Hell knows my head’s been gone so long
Others can’t reach the place I be
Mind fears you are the only one
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As setting sun
reveals the truth
her light begins to fade
She tells deep down
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