Linda Batchelder Poems

Loving you is watching
The sun dance on water
Like endless acres of diamonds
On a golden summer morning.
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Two comrades huddled
On the frigid ground.
Mangy, tattered blanket pulled up
Around grey, matted beards.
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Shuffling forward slowly
On cardboard fitted soles;
Rancid bits of leather
Held in place by weathered twine.
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Eighty-five.
Her walk is different.
Sensing uneven ground,
Carefully placed steps
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Upon first meeting
I was wholly smitten
By the wit and wisdom of this man.
Soft grey suit and finest silken tie;
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The blackest veil of illness
Shrouds you as the night.
No light to penetrate the dark,
No laughter hides within.
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Skillfully rendered chords
Melodious and strong,
Chime forth at any given hour.
Bringing infinite serenity and peace
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Insane visions
Stab the night.
Laughing demons
Mock his plight.
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