Paul Holmes Poems

SPRING

I slowly unfurl to the wide World
Stretching out to the sky blue
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Imagine having 29,000 in the bank!
To a child how rich he would be!
What would he spend it on?
No guessing, it’s no mystery!
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He stood at the bus stop

Black coat soaking wet,
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Gently falling from
The midnight sky

A sliver of silver
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Does your love write notes
On the bathroom mirror in the steam?
Messages of affection
That will not fade as a dream?
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There happened to be an Elephant with purple skin
Which caused many a little child, to laugh and to grin?
They considered it so strange, and so ‘out of place’
That, a cheeky smirk ne’er left each mischievous face.
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Can there be a more beautiful Snowflake
To rest upon your pink nose
Yet melt almost immediately
Like frost on a fragile Rose?
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A wisp of blue
Morning mist
Caresses the mirrored lake
As a pale yellow sun
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Go on, you deserve it,
You’ve had a stressful night,
Have a day in the duvet,
And perhaps a pillow-fight!
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A streak of blue lightning
Across a babbling brook
Takes me unawares
That moment that I look
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