John Tansey Poems

Darkness surrounds you
As spirals of smoke
Wrapping you in myth
And the delineated danger
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Darkness surrounds you

as spirals of smoke
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Coming home from dinner with true friends,
I had too much to drink,
so you took the wheel to drive.
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May you
oh would you
if I were to ask
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Under the Hupa of the blue sky,

we are all egual;
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Childhood
is the Bibles' lost fable
in the Garden of Eden.
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Zen, In Her Old Age

For Mary
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Brisk, this cold October wind
pruning husks of brown-balled leaves
into effigies of Autumn's wane,
sweeps with besom broom
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Delusions of Eveing

Evening comes. My self-delusion
stirs the synapses
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It is in the subtlety
And not the blunt insult,
The threat and not the onslaught;
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