James McLain Poems

it is.. just that..
some times
the words of they,
like yours...
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Each red eye be, 'hold the dragon.
wet and winding
a Japanese path
gracefully twisted bonsai trees
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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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Pastor she says, that each little cut
if but i say it to you
can you not at least try them on
if i could only but see it your,
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and i would never do that
back then, but know?
every one that did has died
they stopped.
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Our mortal flame in it draped as we are.
standing as we stand apart that way
twilight revolves around you speechless
i am left by you
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all i know must i hide
this is to remind you
of why
i must hide all i know
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Moving it moves apart, supple and brown
tall hardy trees, bushes and plants
birds that sing out their hearts early comes dawn.
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When I depart, look up there and remember me.
If all goes well, it goes off, the silent bells heard distantly.
With both hands, grasp all love above this.
When morning has left my every night all being when if possible, however that it goes,
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You, ' by whom, you are
and by this, it is,
that I am, in part
of that which you are.
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