Linda Yates Poems

Did you ever give thanks for the gift of your life?
As a child, a teenager, a mother or wife?
Did the pride in the eyes of your mother or son
Make you glad you'd accomplished whatever you'd done?
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What thoughts are revolving in that pretty head
Silent, observing, with nought being said?

Dark eyes that mask intellectual feats
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Bouncing and pouncing -- jump to and fro --
Straining at leash and so eager to go!
Racing at first down the shady, damp street.
Straining to keep up with fast-flying feet,
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