Charlotte Ballard Poems

Is a Cat
Sitting on the desk
Creeping forward, slowly
Hoping that I won't notice
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No snow broke the spring's interruption-
No fields white like a virgin's wedding sheet
Or sparkles like diamonds glittering over
A clean expanse cleared of brush, bramble
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Gray silver
Dime, dusted and
Ground fine by the
Shifting footprints
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While walking along the road of life
Let one dream stand out.
It can hold you up
When living has got you down.
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I don't want you to die,
That's what God said to me.

I am so bored and angered with my life
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Sonya was the nurse
That used to come
to tell us-
Dinner's done
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Had he and I but met
Before a wife he had acquired
We would have danced, and dined
And talked for many an hour.
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He doesn't answer,
Nor do I know his heart
Will he betray me
Himself or hold my pledge
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Your black eyes speak death for me.
Each white tooth
That once chewed
The food that I
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Being in your presence
Is like intoxicating wine.
Remembered, replayed, touched
The distance is divided
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