Glenn Bagshaw Poems

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A life means that many times each dies
for ends don't close a single-stranded thing
but hives the network of all that apprise
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It seemed somehow I was again awake,
and yet old life was now all passed away.
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When praying, he heard God's Voice
and whispered matter-of-factly:
'Your Will be done. I think as You.'
Lord's emphatic word -'Exactly! '
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my boy who stands against his door
tells me how tall he'd like to be
and leaps a line above his head.
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Great Keats and Shelley now are dead.
They read what “writ in water” said.
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We cast our nets in hope upon this stream.
The fluxing currents drift and shift what's true.
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As I escape by bus, I think of him,
my uncle who has kept his house the same
for over fifty years: yellow newsprint
banners, 'Sputnik into Space! '-UFO
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The wide world swerved around and then yelled 'now! '
So I loved you as stilted sun's reply
sang high as spring flings birds or rain would know
to tap aware dear hearts below the sky
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(The arbutus tree can only survive a few miles from ocean water)
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I thought to write a triolet,
a silly, little, eight-line thing
but got-you bet- I got upset!
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