Lonnie Hicks Poems

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181.
Lights

These lights gather round
fluttering-
one brighter than the other-
but the latter glows yellow with joy;
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182.
The Clothing Of Faith

She took her Heart and placed it in a bottle
because it was reserved for only him.
She took her Soul and placed upon it a sign
that said 'occupado.'
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183.
A Hand Ring

'I can fashion with my hands, ' he said
an empty space
with which I can then shape
a shape
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184.
A Pirate Hooks

My craving lands like a pirate horde
grappling onto my fleeing ship
swinging on ropes
til they board
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185.
A Flattened Flower From The Bouquet

Some say to me I'm pitiful
craving the joy you intend for another
I'm the shadow roommate
the homely friend of the beautiful
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186.
Summer At Night

We dance under the nascent moon
delicate twirls, eye twinkles
and tree shadows
far away horns blowing
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187.
Dawning

Each morning he would take a pick-ax to the Dawn, machete strokes anchored from the Decending Sickle Moon he, like Night, would show up with blood-red streaks on his ax and hack away at carving another day from a reluctant horizon, which flattened itself away trying not give him another day, trying indeed to conceal, Light and Hope from him.

All he had had to be fought for, pick-axed from scrabble ground and each day the sweaty effort his efforts had to be breach-born into the Light from the Dark.
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188.
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189.
Stretching

I can stretch my heart
like taffy dough
and try to reach yours by extension.
but will have in the stretching it will become
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190.
The Seduction Of The Vampire

In her way she encircled him

told him in their talk the night before
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