Samuel Stuart Pennell Poems

when she smiles
there is sunshine
and light
...

Everlasting, the snow is

As the dry crystals
gently twirl and float to the ground
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The star wouldn't shine,
no matter how much he asked it to

The night sky was an ocean of black,
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I set out on my journey across our nation
I set myself in the dusty old saloons of Oklahoma,
and drank with the ghosts of cowboys
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I see the winged archer Aximander of pale marble,
Wings fluttering like a bee, the humming of wings dipped in honey,

With the rage of a god on the battlefield, winged and immortal
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Thoughts were churning deep inside of him

Dark undercurrents were rushing,
like an unseen river
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He stood there,
viewing life through his frosted window pane

The world passed him by
...

Being with her is like

A blustery wind,
gently blowing snowflakes,
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</>Springtime rolls across the land like an ocean
Sanguine red strawberries drip sweetness

I bite into them and drink their sugary, sticky, sweet red blood
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</>The summer fades like sunsets

But I still have memories of you at the beach
The royal sun-god burned the images into my mind and memory
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