Valerie Dohren Poems

There are only shadows –
no substance
to an evaporating world.

Time has etched its purpose upon my soul,
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O, I will search for you, my love,
Whenever all the world is done
When earth no more shall spin around
As at the dying of the sun
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Another year has set its course
Within the wheels of time
With many pathways to traverse
And mountains yet to climb
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A world of wonder waits for you
Just seek and you shall find
A multitude of miracles
To captivate your mind
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Watching in the mellowed light
Through the darkness, through the night
Eyes that pierce and eyes that burn
Eyes that twist and eyes that turn
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If I had ever lived before
What would I then have been
As a pauper low and poor
Or as a noble Queen
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If man would pause to meditate
To look within and seek to find
The treasures locked inside himself
In deeper levels of his mind
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No walls of stone were ever cast
Nor yet as such defined
To equal thus the fortress built
Where I be so confined
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With furrowed brow and silvered hair
Crumpled low in her rocking chair
Draped in a shawl of tattered lace
A thousand years upon her face
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I scarce could see the rainbow's hue
Through teardrops in my eyes
Nor hear the skylark singing sweet
In soft and sapphire skies
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