John Tansey Poems

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101.
Here, In The Past, I Repose In Time Everlasting...

Here, in the past, I Repose in Time Everlasting

I have found immortality…
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102.
Of White Moths And Drunkards…

Of White Moths and Drunkards…

Fearing the night, linen white moths
Flying into the torch of lit street lamps,
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103.
The Gleaning Of The Romantic...

The Gleaning of the Romantic

It is in the subtlety
And not the blunt insult.
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104.
A Gift For The Romantic...Second Version

A Gift for the Romantic V.2

It is in the subtlety
And not the blunt insult,
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105.
Staying Alive Somewhere Between Past And Future

The past is mournful,
the future uncertain,

All we have is what slips by
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106.
Take Back This Free Will You Willed To Me...

Take Back My Free Will
God, please…

Take back this free will
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107.
The Stillborn Poet Or What Never Was...

What would if suffer;

One more poet, more or less,
one more poem written, never read,
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108.
It Is Finished...

It Is Finished… Final


I wanted to spend my whole life
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109.
Epitaph Iii...

Epitaph III


I
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110.
To Be Salacious With A Saint…

To be Salacious with a Saint…

I want to be salacious with a saint.
Make love to an Ideal;
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