Susan Lacovara Poems

Silence is louder
after the midnight hour
Being propelled
into yet another forecasted day
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Stay far from me today
I am not strong enough to resist
falling back into your eyes
The whirlpool of crystal blue
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Sanity...
Where's the life you promised me
All your "I love yous"
left on my window sill
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Have you no plans today
This crystal clean morning
Bursting with songbirds
On budded branch
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You fell into my tiny universe
My water globe of wishfulness
Much the way snow cascades
From the winter sky
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I unpack the folded flag
That flew that day
Against the sunniest of blue skies
Remembering...
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There is no denying
November can be cruel
Stealing back an hour of sunlight
As if my days already not dark enough
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You do not know that each day
No matter which
Contains a moment
Belonging to only you
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For those who trot their masculinity upfront
Displaying their shields of steel
All but announcing "I am Man"
Know that I have petals of delicate bloom
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Up to bat, again,
While the bleacher-filled crowd looks on
They know my stats
My 'swing for the fences' stance
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