Patti Masterman Poems

When we first met
I could not see your spirit at all;
I had to tease it out, with the feather of my breath.
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Indifference replaces the friendship
Where once partiality reigned,
And if true interest once was present
Now all such interest is feigned.
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Gilded electronic age, embraced electron by electron
Our blue bloodstream of vivifying interference;
Taletale beating hearts from every venue
Filling up the airwaves, crowding out matter from outer space.
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I glow hot dust in vaunted byways of time;
Sing, fly my crashed divinity, to lonely mountain highs

Stray-syllabled tambourines, washed up on salty oceans
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I'm not a hypochondriac, I'm sure you'll understand
Even though my two legs tingle, till I'm sure I cannot stand.
It creeps up to my chest and I'm sure that I must die
But somehow I live on; so relieved I give a sigh.
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my love appeared perfectly folded
written into so many lines,
as believing the day mine
how truly rolled the verse.
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In photos we get a two dimensioned view of the past;
The past was never short of dimensions
But it is our feeling part that's missing
Old images of self are curiously cold, impassive;
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Other's time is not your time to fill;
Spare hours not privy, to your will,
For time is money, and money's power
But you are just a time-sink flower.
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Winding sheet, where death has had it's day:
Expressions blankly say
No losses and no wins;
No movement and no words
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The burden is easy and the yoke is light,
When the enemy is deathless night.
How light the burden; being gently kind
And how pale that yoke, next a civilized mind-
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