Dorothy (Alves) Holmes Poems

I told you before
Of God's magnificent gifts
Sky Moon Mountains Trees
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The solitary man
Singing a song of freedom
He wrote yesterday
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Their voices echo
Come back oh come back to us
He keeps paddling hard
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In the long silence of night fall
I urge my heart not to cry
As I push aside the haunting
Yesterdays shared by you and I...
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Before the roses bloom
The garden weeps in longing
For fragrant flowers with
Jeweled faces spreading
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For me,
Writing a rhyme
Takes little time,
Not that I don't
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My cry in the night-
Stalker of my dreams
Come back to me
I hear the echoes
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There were poems
In the ribbons m mother tied
In my hair when I was a child.
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My heart's evolutionary dreams
weave within shadows of hobbled
monstrous spiders...
I gnawed love's aortic kiss.
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Was it something I said
that led you astray,
sent you on your way,
lowered your selfesteem
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