Vonda Overlie Poems

The flattery from a thousand tongues uttering my beauty means nothing...
Then you speak, and simply call me beautiful and I melt into a thousand oceans flowing freely and uninhibited.
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Standing on the brink, both so afraid to move
Who will be vulnerable first?
I stand anchored, showing my strength and determination
Then I look in your eyes and they compel me to trust
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Side by side we strode, going our merry way.
Playing our parts to perfection.

You the tomboy me the sissy
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PICTURES


I keep looking at your face in the picture,
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My heart yearns for my homeland when my spirit felt young and free.
Living in exile in the desert, I thirst.

Shallow breaths taken further and further apart.A shell left dying.
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Emerging from the fog, I can see clearly
You don't know how blind you were, until you can see

Head up, shoulders back,
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Love is strength
Love is pure
Love is passion
Love is forgiveness
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These eyes have shed many tears
Seen many injustices.

If I Iook into them deep,
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