Colleen Courtney Poems

You do not need to be
joined physically.
Body to body, sex to sex
to become as one.
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I opened the door in answer to a knock
And seeing who stood there
Gave me quite a shock
For there stood a fairy
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In a little town
Down a lonely back road
There sits a small cemetery
From outside the gates
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I caught a glimpse of you today
Walking down my street
Skateboard under your arm
Long blond hair flopping over your eyes
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As I traipse through
a pine forest,
I inhale sharply
the resinous scent of sap.
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Autumn leaves come tumbling down
Same as my tears
Falling to the ground
Released unfettered
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I'm not the girl I used to be
That girl has gone away.
Where did she go? I do not know,
She simply went astray.
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As the wind howls outside
It knocks at the windowpanes
It whistles through the doors
But yet silently
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He came into your life
It was twenty years today
Little did we know back then
The tremendous role that he would play
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Twenty sweet children
Age six and age seven
Have arisen to God
And now live in Heaven.
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