Captain Cur Poems

Pleasant intermittent rhythms
voiceless smiles that transverse space
sunlight plays in raindrop prisms
each one falls to intrigue my face.
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As I rise in grace with eyes unblinking
far above the blind directionless clouds
with the thoughtful thoughts of love rethinking
the sinful earth encased within your shroud.
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Oceans of this impenetrable world!
Mystery lies within their deep embrace
Harmonizing waves sounding out their song
In solemn strains, that music which is loved,
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Assign wisdom its tithe
and knowledge grows,
ignorance gives free
what it does not know.
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The old tree stood grim and gnarled. The young
children shrieking loudly crawled down beneath
its hanging leaves, playing as if in song,
but one sat idle resting on its knee;
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Oh! England! Shall I miss those brimming shores
that plague the words of this songs sad refrain?
If I must depart vanquished from your door!
Leave my love! Till your white walls rise again!
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What words can strengthen my mortality?
What sounds can wake me from this worldly sleep?
Imagined obstacles appear too steep
to climb, in pain and weakness would I die
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When I turn to her, all my heart conveying
these simple words that her love has deemed
in this gentle light with soft shadows playing,
a quiet sleep envelopes me in dreams.
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On your neck hangs an ocean pearl
shaded with hints of pink and blue
unshelled, pried open to the world,
its pride of self adorning you.
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On this magnificent sea, what a dream!
Forgotten souls rise cheering from the deep,
the Stallion answers with a swarthy scream,
they clutch her mane though rudely roused from sleep.
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