Patti Masterman Poems

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31.
Things They Never Taught In School

Everything is a metaphor for everything else.
The conundrum of existence doesn't have to wait to be born.
Real order emerges from chaos in the universe.
Windows can work both ways,
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32.
Some Think The Night

Some think the night's a transparent stranger,
Some think the night's an opaque friend;
And though some nights are fraught with danger,
Day to night, it's shadows lend.
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33.
Mermaid's Moon

It's a Mermaid's Moon;
See the ripples like water,
Try to hear the splashing
And faint tinkling laughter.
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34.
A Fable

There once was a dog
Who was friends with a hog.
They sat around on a log
Drinking beer and grog,
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35.
A Bullet For Lenin

A bullet for Lenin, a bullet for Trotsky,
With love from the West;
Go back in the time machine,
Go back to the guillotine-
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36.
Sympathetic Magic

It's written in the leaves,
And the clouds at sundown;
Things you thought were left behind-
Or buried in the ground.
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37.
Thought Is The Keyhole

I was born fifty years ago
The dead know my history
The dead gave my name
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38.
We Wear Human

We wear human we crave freedom
The burden of the flesh hangs lightly upon us
We're crowned with breath because we breathe
We're cursed with death because we grieve
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39.
A Little Bit Of Sun In Me Still Shines

There is a place within that always waits
For sunshine, knowing rain at last abates.

Everything recalls from whence it sprang;
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40.
A Woman

A woman doesn’t fill a space;
She occupies a mood,
And although she may contemplate-
She will never brood.
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