Salvie Rosales Poems

My friends can say in just few words
Which I cannot say in many words.
That I am somebody, I am worthwhile
I am important and I have sweet smile.
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My first love understood me well,
He’d ask me question-the questions,
But……
He’d never knowing how I felt,
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After you’re gone,
There shall be starlight still
Shimmering silver o’er our trysting hill;
There shall be music yet,
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You wonder why my feelings
For you, my love, are sung,
And never plainly phrased by
The unaffecting tongue.
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Curious the changes wrought by Time and Fate
These voiceless echoes only ghost can hear
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“You are my One Beloved, ”
He whispered yesterday.
How sweet a song it seems to me,
And sweetest sung his way.
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While the enamored stars would dare
Seaward to leap,
Seeking a truer heaven in
The loved deep,
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If only the Code within these lands
Allowed all impulse to govern the heart,
We should not feel this fever if the hands
To leap the gap that keeps us so, apart;
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I
I waited, Love. All Nature waited, too;
The dust of air for flower-scent and song,
The sky for moonlight and the earth for dew-
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Be fair, beloved. Is this all you offer
For my long wait; one moment’s ecstasy,
Brief as the beauty shooting stars would proffer?
Ah, if you knew what fears had fretted me!
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