Theodora (Theo) Onken Poems

Walk me out of this Winter Vortex, beloved
Please erase, all of this January white
Melt the ice that dangles endlessly
Remove it all from my very sight...
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Through her obvious and smug delight of face
We see through her sheer floral embroidered lace;
She is still such a true sadistic fool
Unsound & unwound - her thread bearing spool;
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Captured in the suns warm glow
Bound and tethered 'neath it's beams
Gladdened by the sapphire sky
Realizing my summertime dream
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Forceful protagonist
File themselves away
Circles within a maze
Honor one shant betray
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It t'was in the Evergreen moment...
Of the days of Roses and Wine
Long into the Golden-Gated past
To a time-when you were, all mine;
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...And in the West the Sun 'tis ready...
The Occident has prepared its bed...
But O' such an awe-inspring splash of colors-
That surrounds its enormous orange head;
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The cold hard past called on me today-
It came beating down my door-
Bent on destruction and living in the past...
Beating its drums of vengeful war;
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You carry yourself so well--
Broad shoulders of almost steel---
Standing tall through it all...
But with a heart that is unable to feel! ;
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God came to me today...
He showed me how to pray...
In Heavenly words spoken on this day--
He blessed my way-he blessed my way;
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Eighty years old plus a week and three days
Today your suffering is finally through
Leaving behind-your sweet Carmen
But soaring through the Heavens Divine wisps of blue;
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