Jean Renwick Poems

Your smile lights up my world
like the sun lights up our earthly one
and my heart sings out in joy.
For I have found you, or you me.
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The love of time and the grief of time,
the harmony of life and life in change.
Dead eyes have loved and changed.
In the grief of time I hide:
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Make love in a rainforest,
Make love in the snow;
Through a storm in a graveyard
That’s how it would go.
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I love travelling o’er hills and dipping into valleys,
Moving across mountains and sweeping plains.
I love resting in the shadows and reflections of sunlight in hidden caves.
But nothing can compare to the brimming lake of liquid sweetness
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Behind the glitter, the laughter, the make-up
Something lies bitter and bizarre
A cast of characters outside God’s creation.
Under the bright, wry smile of a low-slung moon
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Woman of Troy −
You cause what’s called the Sin of the World
Have mercy on me.
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You’ve been working in the garden again.
I love the sweat-sweet smell of you.
I want to hold you,
bury my face on your breast and
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I hear a wind rushing through my mind.
I feel a river flowing in my veins.
I want to be open; to be opened −
Pull me out,
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I am tormented in this flame –
Light that lures and pierces,
Warmth that teases and burns.
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The first light before dawn
Reminds me of your eyes darkened by desire
And cloudy with passion.
Around me is the soft trembling of a new morning
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