Bob Blackwell Poems

As I reflect on what has gone before,
I consider, hopes and dreams
both past and present, some dreams
fulfilled, others broken, elapsed,
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Controlled by ego, driven by want,
dogged by desire, blinded by guile,
fail to see most of life’s attractions,
Unseen natures, beauty, charm, style,
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Our walk to discovery
was blessed, with a
silence wrapped in
music, the songs,
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Before time,
before birth of
clocks, watches,
other ways to
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Butterflies, so quietly do you fly,
you have no song,
your wings do not creak or rasp,
you do not make a noise,
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I hear the birds sing,
I feel the gentle wind
blow through trees
whose branches creek,
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Like a fruit ripening,
a nut within its shell,
A cocoon that holds a butterfly,
for a chest, a box, a
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We must grow with silence,
Through the winter of our
Ignorance as we wait the
Spring of change, to grow
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Imagine peace
for one whole day
throughout the world.
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Are about yesterday,
that time gone by,
memories of lovers,
broken hearts, those
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