Janet K. Rauch Poems

When I was young
I used to wear
A pretty ribbon
In my hair
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Starry Starry Night
At last you've taken flight
Where your Spirit soars in harmony
With all that is, and all to be
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She used to hang around a lot. Especially when Indonesian clove smoke danced and swirled around my hand, in and out of me – I breathed it – and her. Where did she go?

Is she as bored as I am at this humdrum existence I'm stumbling through lately? Is she on vacation? Courting some other half-baked aspiring poet who's turning out reams of rhyme and reason while I lay in bed night after night, wide awake and feeling tearful because I can't find myself, my life or my muse?
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What a crazy life we live, my head’s spinning, is yours?
Yes, we have our daily woes, but yet sweet goddess pours
Her love and blessings in our lives, just look around and see
The best in life we already have, the gift of you and me
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It doesn’t pay to worry
For it won’t bring brighter days
No need to always hurry
Through life’s crazy little maze
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I gaze at myself in the looking glass
Saying, “Life with you has its ups and downs”’
Your response is blended with laughter and sass,
Reflecting, “ I’ve given you smiles and frowns.”
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Honor your
place in the
universe
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T’was a day in late August of 2005
When this woman became my client.
Her caseworker would strive
To see that we’d jive
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Have you been inside my room?
It's round without a door.
Its windows are of cellophane
with paper blinds galore.
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Spirits of the East,
South, West, North...
encircle us with your love.
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