Tom Courtney Poems

Woke up to a bright-sun morning
Look what I see!
The day was a new dawn breaking
And I felt free – I was free!
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He believed in the wind
The wind rain and snow
He believed in love
That it’s something we know
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Forge ahead Ahab kill the mighty white beast
and wander Ishmael for a thousand years
Ten thousand times to cut and strip the blubber
of the great white fish not knowing its vulnerability
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I Can’t Say

And I can’t say, but I am told
That man is kind, but he is bold
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Once upon a table top
There sat a cup of tea
For a little man whose table top
Had only chairs for three
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I have journeyed to a place
From which I find there’s no escape
The essence of my arteries
Tells me my blood unlikely frees
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Breezes speak in the rustling leaves
bathe my skin with a thousand flowers
I see myself in the distance
beckoning come to me
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I find what you have written here to be very interesting.
You have written from the heart
and with some style.
You have told a story
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And so we step out
beyond the last program
beyond the parking spots
from the automobiles
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