Ben Partenay Poems

Oh maybe in some far and foreign field
There sits a star that never liked the sky
That much prefers the barren soggy ground
Just as I
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She sleeps while sunrise slowly closes in
While somewhere near a rooster starts to crow
Last night she dreamed a crumpled little cloud
Where I can’t go
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five thousand
two hundred
thirty seven steps
to the edge of the
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Dusk to dusk
And head to pillowcase
And tonight I think
I'll let the winter
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I’ve never whispered much about my life
Nor have I offered up this veiled soul
To anyone, save maybe once, a love
With eyes like burning coal
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i cannot write when all is well
i need the grins that miss a tooth
i need the tolling of a bell
and for a little blackened truth
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Maybe had I never lied
And spoken only truths or parts
And in this then deceit had died
Still faith would battle doubting hearts
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down the street, cars
are pulling in, tears
are walking out
looking blindly for him
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it’s there you
know it, i know
it, hell
it’s been there
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and o my dear
the ears lay low, you're
humming the song of cold
feet dancing down
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