Patti Masterman Poems

Ever since Romeo and Juliet
Repulsed lovers have considered suicide
As just an offshoot of unrequited love-
Even if the love was refused from the start
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By the wall, by the tree,
A frail flower grew:
It reached it's small buds
Toward the sun, for it knew
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Ghosts breathe you in

when you sleep:
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Fade-away scarlet, fade-away blue
Fade in the sun for there's nothing to do
But lie still on tables or on the clothes-line,
And wait for the one whose heart must be mine.
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Perhaps our sorrow comes from things
That died, as we our choices made;
A ghost of something never born,
A story stopped from existing.
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Slicky-slick lines and capitalization
Won't win our adoration,
And restating old facts, time after time-
Just reading; we have lost a dime.
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People don't know their power-
They think they are just sod;
Though some think you, a nightingale-
And some think you- a god.
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The past can kill; those tears that never fell,

words you can't say anymore,
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a longing was in the branches
of the departed path
touched with glimpses of flowers,
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