Uriah Hamilton Poems

Every flower petal
That gently falls to the ground
Or autumn leaf
Colorful in soft October sunlight
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Innumerable rugged steps
Across the broken concrete
Of a desolate city
Have lead me to this place
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Smile like a princess, Sunflower,
By the apple-orchard lake.
The dreams that dance in your eyes,
I’m certain, my heart they will break;
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Come walk with me
On this midnight boulevard,
I’m by myself and so afraid;
Passing headlights are few
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I adore reading Dante and Petrarch,
And I could pray to God in sacramental bliss
Sitting quietly in an orchestral hall
During a Mozart symphony,
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I never pursued
Money interest,
Power, or prestige;
I only wanted to hear
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Smile graveyard truce:
I accept tombstones of doom,
I’ve abandoned promise,
I’ve abandoned love.
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I know a girl
With a New York voice
And goddess eyes,
She has me hypnotized
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You’re a young sprite
Making your way through the city
Goddess-like along subway trains
Causing tremulous hearts to palpitate
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Sometimes you can see yourself
In a burial suit stretched-out in a coffin,
Your hands cold and gray, expressionless face.
If there is no God, we vanish away
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