Alison Dunn

If I move from this place then the rhyme will be lost
like the dreams when you move from the bed. All the lessons
we’ve learned between slumber and light are the truths, never making
the pages of knowing.
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No I don’t want to turn back the hands of the clock
I don’t wish to be younger than this
I just want to be me, as I am here and now
To enjoy the enjoyable kiss
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The meadow draws in deep
Taking me back with its inhale
I walk as if in sleep
And find me at the water’s edge
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Here in myself I find me lost
As I fragment inside the core
These tiny scatterings of shell
Are spilling out onto the floor
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Here behind these eyes
Lies a labyrinth of thought
Rows upon rows of mind
Dream wistfully away
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He stands out from the crowd
This deep poetic being
So dignified in his madness
On a higher plane of feeling
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I wish I had a sound bite in my head
Extrapolating all my thoughts unsaid
A true form of myself
The soul of me
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Can’t make the dreaming stop
It spells the truth out right
For in the cold of night
I wish your shadow to return
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Eyes dilate at the first abstraction
Dreaming their way through a void of suns

Portals appear in the mind’s expansion
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I am a candle
Burning bright
Beneath lovers lips
Blown out at night
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As I sit with you here
spelling out every tear
Telling mind heart and soul
of the things that I fear
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We clasp our hands
to close the gap in our divide
To feel the Negative of
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As I strolled by to kill some time
Monroe lay poised on show
A tiger’s eyes leaped out at mine
All posters in a row
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I can’t explain so deep inside
The very fabric of my soul
Only a heart that grieves such loss
Can ever truly understand
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It wrote my pain once again, this pen
And there it is, all spilled out in a language
Not quite how I speak, but utterly honest
from my heart, here I weep
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I close the window on the world
Taking with me what I’ve kept from the day
In my mind, in my head, to relay to convey
What I’ve felt, what I’ve seen, every image of life’s
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Sleeping beauty lays eternal
My friend the ghost forever now
You chose to slip beyond the veil
In search of peace and peace you found
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I say hello, one small
hello. To let you know
That I’m still here
You play the game and
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Eyes took what they think they saw
as being strange, or what was heard
explained in theory, by other viewers
Squinting to fathom what it meant
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When clouds fade I see a dawn of dreams unfold in the fall of words
Floating from the blue sky like snowflakes melting in the sun
They’re always there in the cypher of change where joy and pain will meet
and disperse behind the smiles we choose to keep
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