Imogene Wagner Poems

Darling, I could secret my eyes
And weight the answer in disguise,
I could regard my shoes and wait
To make you guess your final fate,
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You came and in your charming easy way
You hold my hand and whisper of delight,
You mocking count my pulse – I turn away
To tell you that the swift beat is from fright.
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On Sundays Mom an Dad an I
An Sis an Tom an Joad
Git in the car an rattle off
To hunt another road.
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If you had been a deer
and I a doe
I would have come to you,
your eyes said so.
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“No one will know”, he plead
as he reached out
hand unto hand and held
her to him dear,
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My heart is an open door
With fire-light just inside
To lure you in and warm you
From the chill of eventide.
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I look in your windows where love and warmth glow,
Where halos of sharing and happiness show;
I stand in the Winter of loneness effete
stretching out fingers of Soul to your heat.
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I would curl at the feet of my love
like a cat,
Basked by the fire of him near,
Needing only the presence of him
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The poet with a blind man's strengthened sense
Sees beyond the veil of ordinary,
With the sharpened feel of living immense
And each pore a sponge-like tributary
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Although we've come to days that say goodbye
I hope that you will think of me as I
Will think of you with gentleness and smile,
So grateful for the time we shared awhile,
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