guillermo veloso Poems

Born of grey froth and
Brought forth
Baptized in the sea
Prodigal son
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You left us
Lost in a world
Bereft of your magic
For an instant and now,
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Inhabited and infested
By thought and desire
Monkey-brained and black veiled
Dreaming of day while
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He is gone now
The minder of roses
We never exchanged number or name
But greeted each other as we greeted the dawn
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Things seemed to fall in place
That day at the grave
Birdsong and backhoe hummed
Otherwise it was quiet
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Our lives are a filigree of moments
They ebb and flow on a sea with no shore
Our bed is sargasso / dead calm and lust-less
Smiles and cousin-kisses are the trinkets entombed in this tangle
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Everyday
Everyday
I search for God
Never remembering
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What shall the rain say
If we should dance in its gentle grace?
No matter,
The rain will wait
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Listen now to the world
Cry out
It pulls you to place
It begs
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She came as a whisper
In the rush of dusky sleep
Maybe a fleeting thought
On the lips of Morpheus,
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