Phillip Erb Poems

Within the walls of a breathless instant, the entire world falls asleep
And another one becomes alive, opens its eyes, checks the clock and heaves a sigh.

Fascinated with lackadaisical dream visions and the conversions with vague
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I was wondering how many sacrifices it would take
To hold you down locked in that simple moment
When you're looking into my eyes from across the room
I don't want to throw away the roses and cuddle warm,
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Blue jay perched on my flagpole
The only color contrasting against
A fall gray making haste to
Chase summer skies away
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The wind steals my breath away
My words never weighed much to most folks
And nowadays I don’t listen to what I say
Words can be so very hard to make
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Hello, it P
Just dropping
You a note so it
Can never be said.
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All these feelings I ignore
I've been here a million times before
Trying to dock the boat on the shore
I'm always needing a little more
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To this day I still remember
The directions you gave me
To make sure I got to you
I typed them onto a blank page
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Light is easy to love
Show me your darkness
It might give me hope
To know we heartless
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Sometimes during the witching hours
when the moon disappears over the horizon
and the sun is opposite the earth from me
I get so lonely I pull at my hair and it
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Train your eyes to see through the midnight darkness and above
the miasma of fatigue, choose carefully which scenes of sleep’s cinema to believe,
because the God of the New Age doesn’t reach out through prophecy
it is more likely the voices that speak through the passing dream
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