Eddie Roa Poems

 
 

White billows rise from a patchwork lake
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It was a wonder why clouds were so gray
Despite the brightness of the afternoon, and
No one knew that you left on the three o'clock train
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On a hill of endless jade
Red strawberries dotted the swathe of green
I hurried to sate my bulging wicker
When you surprised me with a nudge
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1.Landfill

Urchins eyeing lunch
Cats, dogs and rodents in wait
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Red faced dancers on artful bowed legs
Gold tipped fingers on an upward tilt
Wide eyed but expressionless
Beckoning with uncertain malice
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Sparrows walk the line
on a treeless sun-drenched lane
dodges stone thrown
Boys scurried from the scene
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His dark majesty rode in with fluttering cape shrouding the day
With no bugles to herald, no chorus chanting his usurping of the light
The people in the village huddled and together trembled with fright
Pulled down the shades and barricaded the doors of straw and mud
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