Jacques du Lumerie Poems

'I shall see him no more'
He said
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We watch the moon together
Like two drunken old men;
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Those who sang to us
Are dead.
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You who was born silent
Spoke but once in a thousand years,
Saying that you were sorry
To crack the quiet reflections of the day.
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Sleep is a saucer
Dawn is as clear
As water on the moon.
Only my eyes look down
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Our lips in a liquid pilcher
Are so gently rolling
Sleep in a corner
Chiseling away the sharp walls
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Sparkle of a sunny hairspray
On a dried body
Like a bowl of sugar
Warm white strands
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I say Lord, don't miss me
In the shadow of the abbey,
My prayers for your ark,
My enchanted chapel of nuns;
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Each year they were together,
They loved each other
More and more
Until one day they both began
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Also near the end of its life:
The old blackbird looks up at me
As if to say
'Please do not hurt me.'
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