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Your silence impervious
What good do tears or pleas
My heart imperious
In truth men are enmity
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He forced it on himself, like prejudice
Year by year it came
Strong and bitter
Never sweeter
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Distortion descends in this fatal haven
Palpable as an irreverent dream
Wisdom supreme, electric it seems
Go on then, I shall quote the raven
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You are like a sleepless dream
Bathed in stardust
That hangs on the words
You speak in my bewitchment
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I cry like a wounded sparrow
That spent his tears in spring
Wandering for recompense
Lost in suffering-
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From an antique memory
Whose pale springs have turned to dust-
Whose sole survival hinges on redundancy
You rise on the horizon-
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Swept in like the Cholera
A balmy afternoon
Heralded by a foot soldier
Who knew the words of doom
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The gamut sprung by forcing
The cruelness of a fraud
To sanctify his doings
Before the eyes of God
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I raised my hand to scarlet
Fleeting though as love can be
I took you like a poet does-
All in memory
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In inward conversation
Stagnant pools of dreams
Rummaging through thunder-
The lightning in between
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When the battle turned
The general could tell
That life, it would be simpler
Now that the despot fell
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With vision trapped in honey and ashes in the mouth
Journey's always end, pointing artic south
Beginning with a footstep made on unsure ground
It only took a mile to find our two feet bound
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There you are pixled and framed
Like someone of ancient fame
On my wall and on my desk
All encompassing east to west
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Her face defined my youth
As the first buds of May do Spring
Around the banks of Summers' touch
Beneath the banks enthralled
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The chisel broke the mold
The marble fell away
Featureless the stone
Came alive that day
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There in the Spring causality struck
There in the virgin glory
Fumbling rains masked the sun
Until the vessels emptied
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The dagger thrust deep as first love
And I feigned for prosecution
Yet this is just reciprocity
Some call it the human condition
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When fire denies it flames
It prefers to liquefy
Pretending that its water
It finds a way to cry
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To drown in a sea of forgiveness
Or with the stroke of a brush heal
To suffer for Powers unyielding
To dream of strawberry fields
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At your last Reich
At the meridians seams
You killed the god
That innocence dreams
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The Best Poem Of Derrick Puente

China

Your silence impervious
What good do tears or pleas
My heart imperious
In truth men are enmity
Towards goodness and reason
Imposing only self
What good is a marriage
When emptiness is felt
The pattern if tragic
And ode to Euripides
Impulse had met freedom
In another's ecstasies
For this we are broken
But we were cracked before
The dishes are shattered
Through the apartments floors
The ashes are modern
10 packs of cigarettes
The phrases are hollow
Devoid of sentiments
Insulated unhappiness
Loves been sacrificed
You have your Voodoo
And I my Hanging Christ
You have your keeping
Silence as a wall
And nothing will break it
Nor the distance of the halls
That separates us like China's
Great unyielding stone
Marriage is voided
Defaulted in the loan
The one we had wagered
Would give surety to try
But there is no saving-
There is only goodbye.

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