Glenn Bagshaw Poems

I soak you up as I do day
so I can't let your image go.
Your sweetness seeps in me, they say.
I soak you up as I do day.
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Like sound will toll in a swung bell
some hear your name as rung on air,
as despair's knelling cloud-chimes tell-
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Once thrown, stones vex recall of pool
and sky's water-mirror shatters.
Ripples and sun's rayed image duel
once thrown stones vex recall of pool.
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A jack- o- lantern smiles tonight
a sly and sneering goblin grin.
A squash now mocks my life once bright,
for halloween’s so black-cat dim.
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That Life is Suffering
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Some often wonder, what's the hidden past?
As when a guest will view a friend's new room,
and here a photo: one has stood steadfast
but next to him a moon of space in bloom
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This is the world our actions find a home.
Here the forward and then back,
that sideways bob and weave,
the plucky up and down;
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Worlds rend worlds, and their dust is worlds.
Creation dies and is born and is never done.
Miracles don't offer any good reasons;
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Her name was Joan and as he kissed her
in the all but empty room, he recalled-
yes, quite remembered now, a thrilling moment years ago.
Joan the First had, at twelve, in a clumsy, kidding way
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