Danny Draper Poems

For the longest time

Random absent reason bore
Irrational heinous deeds,
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Yes I broke my silly leg
That would account for the crutches!

How did it happen?
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I must go down in the seas again, the lonely sea and to die,
And all I ask is a better life and a land to set that by,
And the world's kick and the wind's song and the white fists shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and great jaws breaking.
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When all the trees are tall and still
and Sun is shouldered on a hill,
Shadows drench a cooling gully
and nocturnal eyes begin to stir.
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No one, is buying poetry.
You can barely give it away,
They might read it online, free,
But no one wants to buy it.
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We stop visiting graves
In mind or real,
And wonder where
The years went.
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I live in hope that one day
We will live in a world
Without discrimination and bigotry
Where our children will know love
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The southerly change came in at 11: 30 pm
cool respite roared its advancing
Aeolian legions of turbulent will
Rousing summer foreboding
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Anticipation is its own reward
When satiated by so sweet a morsel,
So rare that something or someone is
Good and loved both inside and out.
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A heart grows no older
With the passage of time,
It seeks with a passion
What it sought all the time.
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