James McLain Poems

There are
no more soft beds
free will
by him whom you praised
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I have been around and if better things I do
with death of dreams I've found.
From my perch I watch, I have heard the talk
of prolonging life and if I'd ever come.
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I trod lightly, homophobic world
behind iron bars
where you put me, loving.
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Blank spaces stares the looks, such fear
apart indifference to them is.
I pushed and pulled to disconnect
so you could live and give.
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The sun,
shines on the sky way
below
the waters dark
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The stars are bright
the moon behind her
friend to me seems
empty but it's always full
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Am was I
the snow is white you are.
Leaves stitched cotton lace
across the barren
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Fair bright star, would I were, but could as i now am.
Not you lone around thus resplendent hung eyes aloft.
And watching, the sea, ours eternal lids can only part,
pliant too is nature patient, awake-asleep, Pharaohs,
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Books may man burn, from ink may man learn,
Or write the song be it sweet, cause no harm or in tune.
So much to know and discern it not, 'affability is it's goal.
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