Elizabeth Shield Poems

The sun will rise
but you say I
will set beneath
the cool grey hills
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With a general whirl of fading warmth and sunny breezes, she dons her many colored coat which trails along the ground.

Ephemeral, she passes slowly, and all the trees liken to her form, spreading colored circles on the ground.
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She danced a dance no living heart had seen
And only angels rivaled all her grace
Yet even as the pure white swans will preen
She smoothes her long black hair from round her face
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The saddest sigh I ever was to see
Accompanied closely by selfish thought
The one thing that I couldn't have with me
By another's side unlike he ought
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A carefree autumn breeze
blows nimbly through golden fields
and dandylion stalks
sweeping white puffs to cerulean skies
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I thank you for the moon at night
and also for the stars that shine
and basking in it heavenly light
I wish the universe were mine
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Lying softly,
on the breeze
gentle air, stirring
the trees
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'It's almost fall again, ' I say
'summer is almost over.' we
only have a few weeks left, but
I can't think of what to do
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The falling clouds
the rising boughs
of winters snow
in winds that blow
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We laugh as we run by
the pale golden cornstalks
we keep turning left
and get lost in corn mazes
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