Juan Olivarez Poems

Purple majesty framed in the sky,
Like a magnificent painted cloud.
There is not one that can deny,
Your beauty as you stand so proud.
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Happiness to a broken heart,
Is like water to a tree.
So be careful from the start,
Lest all happiness should flee.
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Liver spots
Have begun to appear
On my sixty
Year old hands.
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Well I'm back, but I must say,
To those that will lend an ear..
I was never really far away,
I was in the same place, here.
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Accept your lot in life,
Oh man stop pretending.
This life you lead,
Does not merit defending.
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Sitting in my front yard,
A mockingbird fell from a tree.
And I couldn't see it in my heart,
To just sit there and let him be.
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Chicken was for supper,
Mom walked outside,
Caught a nice Rhode Island Red,
And swung it round,
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As you travel
Down that old road
And the years just pass you by
Like so many rocks and stones,
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The rain came down, upon my roof,
working it's way through tiny grooves.
It came through the tile, and the sheetrock,
On top of my tv, kerplock, kerplock.
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Somewhere the sky is blue,
Somewhere the sky is clear.
Somewhere I feel there's morning dew,
Somewhere there are no tears.
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