Liilia Talts Morrison Poems

I bought majestic orchids
To decorate my room
Aglow in darkest purples
With satin velvet blooms
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There is a bridge that I have crossed
to light and love and peace
it took a long time and much fear
before I found release
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Truly are the truths of old
branded in my heart like gold
prayers reaching oh, so high
daily as the seasons fly
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Nooks and crannies of my mind
in odd hours are inclined
much like mice and galley rats
flapping, sapping blinding bats
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They walk, they talk, they spend the day
according to their light
they fight, they play, they reach great heights
according to their light
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Slow summer dawn nudges a mourning dove brood
White ibises gather to forage for food
In snowy assurance proud egrets alight
Their liquid reflection a graceful delight
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Cuban coffee, Cuban men
Downtown lunchtime, talk of when
Elders back in Camaguey
Fled their land or chose to stay
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Green are the boughs near my abode
And sunlight fills my room.
Gold blossoms dropp from golden trees
And jasmine fills the air.
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The cool fall breeze
Plays with the turquoise cloth
Draped carelessly over my window
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The feeling of well-being
I did not know before
But as the evening settles
It visits me with love
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