Dorothy (Alves) Holmes Poems

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131.
An Ode To Love

You come and go so fast
Like dawn
When I am star gazing,
Or clouds
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132.
White Pillowed Night

Stretched across a desert
Of white pillowed night,
I cloak myself in blankets
Of shrill quiet.
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133.
Bowed With Grace

His silver head is bowed,
His shoulders bent with the age of time.
Tobacco stained teeth tightly grip his
Corn cob pipe.
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134.
Of Loving You

In winter I miss spring time rains;
In summer I miss the coldness of snow,
When the sun beams down I miss the clandestine moon,
Cool and aloof,
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135.
And That's The Name Of That Tune

Being satisfied
Is not the same as
Being happy...
Being satisfied is merely
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136.
A Circus Clown

I wish I could walk
Upside down
And see the world
Like a circus clown.
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137.
Playing Night Music

I call him jazz
Because he is the music
My heart hears...
Like the slow rippling
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138.
The Scent Of A Rose

Ah, but she was lovely, she was lovely
As roses are, when renewed.
This time, instinctively he knew
She only needed to be nourished carefully
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139.
In High Gear (Cruising Down Life's Highway...)

Cruising down life's highway,
Wind in her face,
Looking neither to the left or right,
Sun at her back
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140.
My Pink Poem (Written With My Pink Pen)

I think I'll write a pink poem,
To make you smile,
Because pink poems say
I love you in all the languages
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