James McLain Poems

Now trolling with cut bait
you should always troll
with cut bait and love the
bait the sunnier the catch.
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Being amiable, and such
and being that the killen was
mostly over needful things,
even though i dinnaken it and
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In my death there, truth was the pain, and
that eye left no spot on the clean earth, this
being known it was foisted off more hurriedly.
Compounded was the pain when counseled
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The night is dark
Alone all in my tree
On oaks narrow limb
So high upon I rest.
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Fraught in the middle;
haloed in mist I stand,
this bridge half glass,
for each side I yearn.
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When was I, how was I yours,
and found me between them not
and cloth made me to bolt the door
and not opening to open you find.
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Is it a word; not heard
And ears too deaf ignore,
Love the mind explores,
Soul that shines the eye.
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For daddy sits; and daddy's is and was,
...and daddy now has snow upon the pass,
For daddy sits; and she is crowned, his queen,
...and daddy's king, he keeps her by the board,
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Now that time has come; because we did together.
While oranges are oft good, and soon then be in name.
And if the moon becomes so large and pale then full.
So common though I be and you did come out, with me.
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