Dorothy (Alves) Holmes Poems

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

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

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

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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Being satisfied
Is not the same as
Being happy...
Being satisfied is merely
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I wish I could walk
Upside down
And see the world
Like a circus clown.
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I call him jazz
Because he is the music
My heart hears...
Like the slow rippling
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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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Cruising down life's highway,
Wind in her face,
Looking neither to the left or right,
Sun at her back
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I think I'll write a pink poem,
To make you smile,
Because pink poems say
I love you in all the languages
...