Midnight Clarity Poems

light seeps around the edges
of the morning
stroking all the colour
back to life;
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Life turns on a dime
most days, and gives no change
but every now and then
the changes ring a carillon
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From where I sit, I see the trees
all massed in fifteen shades of green
and at the very top, some forty feet
above the ground, a spike of lavender
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lie back on the wind
let it take you high
and swoop you down
to near disaster,
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Just a dream of making love.
And yet
I feel the
soft of it,
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Dog barking in the night,
sleep fractures,
eyes squint
against the splinters
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and what will you give back?
how will you inspire
me to the heights
the breadth and depth
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Just stop. Now close your eyes.
Breathe in. Now smile
and open wide
and you may see the sunlight,
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tears chimed silver tracks
down cheeks all wrinkled
with emotion
heart, no longer lonely,
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Night pulses heat
skin gleams, and trickles
light trapped in a tear
perhaps in sweat;
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