Robert Leary Poems

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1.
The Pundit And The Puppet

The puppet has a vision
With many strings attached
A life for every season
Winter, Summer, Spring or Fall
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2.
A Love So Deep....The Alligator And The Butterfly

It was a love so deep inside
That in his heart
The butterfly doth reside
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3.
The Fly

In the garden
You sit upon my book
I look you in the eye
…receive a pleasant look
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4.
Love Lessons

How do you teach someone to love?
They sit before you: "I don't feel the way you do".
"Of course not" you say…"you have to learn to love…
You knew it as a child and lost it like a toy, broken.
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5.
The Road To Erato

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Oh willow like a bird so fair
Your hair abloom ignites the air
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6.
The Vase

An empty vase upon the table
decorously awaiting your return.
What flowers do you ceremoniously
bring, ambrosial dreams to bloom,
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7.
How Like A Bird

How like a bird you are
Heroic canary
In my heart’s mine
Gull hung in the wind
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8.
Alone

It feels awkward walking alone
Along this pier tonight
Shyly I stare at the screws
In the planking
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9.
Pooch

10.
Return Blind

The rain growls on the roof,
starving, dog chew bones in the gutter.
All night the frightened trains gape
though the tunnels in my mind
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