Patti Masterman Poems

The chortle ran off with the belly laugh,
The giggle ran away with the smirk-
Leaving the snickers and glowers and glares,
Bored at the depot, to lurk..
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The phone rings and startles you,
And you see it's him- the one with whom
There's so much water under the bridge.
And his voice sounds surprised too
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As the blue smoke, risen pointless to the skies
Was rafting upward, and whole worlds moved in counterpoint;
Demon sighs, collapsing charcoal'd unison, jetsam flies-
But smithereens, all our fancied wiles
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Whore out the darkness,
Set it to dreams,
Fantasies stirring
In the distant gleam.
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</>Every summer the young woman had filled the pond for the dragonflies,
Who mated and deposited their eggs on it's smooth, glassy surface;
And very often they allowed her to pet them, as she gently stretched
Her tentative fingers toward them, holding her breath, always in full view -
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On the day she first realized she wasn't feeling well,
It was as though things began to pass by faster and faster;
The corridors moved by like lightning, as they wheeled her around
The new white hospital for untold hours, that she could not
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Mermaid, looking for her father's eyes
Looks in the river, ocean, sky-
But the river god, he only sleeps;
And the little silver fishes, keeps
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Never importune an importuner
Never psychologize a pathological liar
Never try to lie to a psychotic parapsychologist
Never pet a fly if you're post-para-epileptic
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</>Maybe we're words left behind by night,
Beneath bounding silhouettes of guiding stars,
Or waters of memory lapsed into rain;
As mind of man bleeds his dreams into day.
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Everyone toils at the working
the opening, unfolding
into other blooming dimensions,
Mirroring the centerpiece of the divine;
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