Jonathan ROBIN Poems

Burning branch hisses
sighs on its ashes,
as candle kisses
goodnight to misses
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Heart and mind at different speeds
Ever run as women, men,
Affirm priorities and then
Regret few key to cue which feeds
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The poet must transcend both love and lust
to focus on eternal infinite
discovered both in tawdry boom and bust
and Nature's gifts, bright day and darkest night.
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I lived protected by high walls Time’s wit
Let stand a while, like pride before stored fall,
Ignoring purposely the fact that all
Vain structures tumble down, and bit by bit
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Four hundred years are but a drop.
Time's vale of tears may never stop
though treadmill wears - tick tock hip hop -
horizon clears - for Man closed shop.
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Subtle strokes set scene serene, she'd share
Her heart's hidden haven's harmonies.
Enchantingly expressed, eternity's
Interpreted intact, idyll inhere.
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Sad indeed who beauty pluck.
Alienation from warm heart
Dwells isolated, worlds apart,
Inoculating bad blood suck,
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Sadness. Each is aware
Of emptiness behind
Solace, failure to find.
In seeking, future fair.
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My first of four now hard, now soft appears,
A part of whole which then may move to tears,
Unmoved before, in mist it disappears,
DEscent rise follows, changes engineers.
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Tomatoes red, bred, sown together,
dependent on capricious weather
happy-go-lucky hell-for-leather
we spread outwards, wonder whether
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