Dan Reynolds Poems

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71.
A Sonnet On The Wind's Promises.

The wind brought me a present yesterday,
a scent it carried for three hundred miles.
It brought the ozone's hue from Sanna Bay
and stirred a pot of thought that so beguiles
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72.
Transcendental Incremental 14,15,16 Beats

The wherewithal within us all, remains a quest too far
If time should cease in times like these, but leave the door ajar
The door which guards us from ourselves, both keeping out and in
The doorway to the land of Elves, of pleasure and of sin
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73.
King Canute's Daughter

She tried to stop the tide again today
with hidden strengths which struggle to the fore.
Lythe legs wrapped as a lotus by the bay
sat lightly on the shells along the shore.
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74.
Persephone's Lure

When time and tide have been denied
the chance to dance and regain pride
from lips that have so often lied,
I'll wait, I'll watch, I'll grieve.
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75.
To Jump Or Not To Jump

Live not, within the margins of all scope,
but cast adrift the tethers of restraint.
Engage the charmer, raising high the rope
and follow paths from hearts who be not faint.
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76.
I'Ll Give You A Bunch Of Fivers, You Troll! !

I'll give you a bunch of Fivers, you Troll! !

I've noticed that the "Oners" are no more.
The "Fiver" is now standing in their place.
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77.
Daddy's Late?

I know a man who has two drinks
then talks like he's had ten.
It isn't long before he thinks
'I'll have two more, again.'
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78.
Do Train Toilets Inspire Your Poetry?

I closed the toilet door aboard the train
and looked into the bowl with much dismay.
For if the choice were offered me, again,
I would have used the Station's loos, that day.
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79.
The Reckoning.

I hugged a brittle stick the other night
The remnants of a friend.
A wheezing, gasping, floundering fish.
He sang in bursts..
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80.
A Tsonnet

How can we ever comprehend or care,
as bystanders who question all we see?
Discouraged by the lack of logic there,
within the cause of each catastrophe.
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