Dorothy (Alves) Holmes Poems

Shades of night and day
Gray clouds hover over land
Cast in deep shadows
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My eyes deceive me
Feathers dancing in the grass
With brown eyed tiger
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Tiger baths his wounds
Cold water soothes like medicine
He will fight again
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Time
Lets man repent
For untold sins,
Enables some to forget,
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cloud safari chase
chariots in rainbow dreams
sun plays hide and seek
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There are no majestic mountains
To frame her graces,
No rolling hills or water falls,
Yet how grand her splendor.
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Flash of a rainbow
Glows at foot of waterfall
Spilling and trilling
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Snow blankets on pond
Your absence all too present
Joy of snow days gone
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Dogwood colors change
branches spread, red leaves dance
October shimmers
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I begged to wear my starched,
Dotted swiss in lilac, with white raised polka dots.
Being a princess, my daddy said, so you see, I wore satin ribbons
In my Shirley Temple curls, which all little girls
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