Patti Masterman Poems

Welcome, to your long dying-
Unsaid words, empty gestures
The substance you always searched for
Was never real, and you discover
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My mind is always going where it's not supposed to be;
I parachute through memories, that take me where they will,
And jump around through time, as though there were no history-
It's like a memory leads me right to what I used to feel.
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Stay out of my head, you simpering hearts,
Braying and bleating you've broken apart;
We've no time for Byron or Shelley or Blake-
Pray tell why you, instead, we'd partake?
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Cinderella got lost
somewhere in between
the countryside and palace
that she'd never seen.
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Creation paints
With a blue emotion,
Vast as the sky
And wider than oceans.
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I run for years, I run from fires
And frowns and harsh words and barking dogs
I run to love and away from disenchantment
I rush to judgment and retreat from skirmishes
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Christmas opened childhood
Like heroes opened games,
And gifts were just the standard
For those with your same name.
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Falling starlight out of blue,
Heaven sinks straight into you,
Quiet fills the darkening streets:
In every face, it’s us we meet.
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Sleep in many dreams,
Of deep forests indigo,
And let your mind just wander,
Like a feather, falling slow.
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The lathe of heaven's spinning, spinning;
Now the web of time beginning,
Time the holder of the many secrets
We must someday learn;
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