Nellie Isabelle Steward Cooper Poems

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71.
Hopeful

I cannot make amends
There is no way
I have searched my brain
And the by-ways of my soul
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72.
We Were

Too soon gone into
something else,
Too quick-silver
Sliding, gone
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73.
Just Looking

When you look low enough
And high enough
Turn clear from the East to the West
And then from the West to the East
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74.
Forever Lost Or Just Misplaced?

Not in a book on the shelf
nor in yourself look

Smoldering words
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75.
Meditating

Not a winged glance that
Slantwise sheds
Perfume in passing
And is gone
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76.
Living Lavish

Be it a raindropp small
Be it a sunlit hall
Be it a waterfall
Be it a songbirds call
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77.
How?

How can I give life to you
Whose secret heart I never knew?
The laments I drew
Were Scraps and seeming,
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78.
Life Is A Tiger

Life is a tiger a terrible beast....
a terrible beast who will
shred you up and eat you up
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79.
End Of A Dream

Dream.....
End of a dream.....
Where do you stand
at the end of
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80.
The Scarf

The scarf lay in wait
For Isadora Duncan
Though the design was not
Yet in the designers eye
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