Marianne Reninger Poems

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1.
Old Buildings Speak

Time knows no beginning or end
Old Buildings wave and wend,
And the words live on in the wind...
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2.
Aging Artist's Lament (Song Lyrics)

Wanna tell you a story in paper and paint
The words don't come easy, sometimes colors grow faint.
Just a simple story, it's truth to impart,
Of Life's conversation, a gift from the heart.
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3.
Work For The Night Is Coming

Workers of the world unite
Before the nectar-laden world takes flight
And shreds our delicate web of life
Into Oblivion...
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4.
Cell Theory (Terrorism Starts With One Man)

One Man.
One Frayed Heart..
One Transgression...
One Repression....
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5.
Little Teacher(Dedicated To Lenore Whitaker Wood (Christi)

Your voice has gone the way
Of the whistle-stop and the mountain lion's cry
Of the dark shadows hanging over well-hidden hollars
Of the rattle-trap stills and the mule-drawn plow
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6.
Unfortunate Soul

They say, 'PTSD, Alcoholism,
A Druggie,
Don't let him take advantage,
Don't let him fool you.'
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7.
Circumstances Of Creation

The painter inspires the poet. The poet reflects the soul of the art.
The blank white canvass, in its terrible absence, challenges as
'Thou, silent form, doest tease us out of thought.'*
Keats, inhabits his Grecian Urn, its frolic to impart.
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8.
Precognitive Recurring Dream

Dark Shadows, purple and black,
Threaten us from Tall Trees lining both sides of
The dirt trail. Trees, like crossing-guard
Sentinels, tunnel us onward,
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9.
Sweet Cherries

Mamaw tells the story of how it used to be,
In a special time and special place
When she was a kid like me.
'Imagine a shady grove of trees, under dark branches I do sit;
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10.
Tethers

Are you
Pink Ribbons,
Pliable playthings of powerful men,
Bending easily, manipulated by
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