Patti Masterman Poems

Quick as a wink you find yourself alone
And you go to find that lost music
Hidden so carefully inside yourself
On some long ago hide and seek,
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After I am gone
Graceful geese will still
Sweep towards the horizon, honking
There will still be the sudden
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The world shrank again, today.
The phone call came early- someone had died.
Someone nice, and down to earth, and
Genuinely kind; well liked by more than a few.
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When you're young,
Everything lasts forever:
A summer is years long,
And childhood lasts for eons.
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Once you've given your all,
You're off the hook. No need to grovel
Or apologize, make up, ingratiate-
No, you're finished now. The book is closed.
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Where angels fear to tread, there go I:
Stomping in my heavy boots, tracking earth
I always have to do it; why oh why
Can't I ever learn, a sense of mirth's
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I wanted to write some poetry
I wrote down words that I thought were beautiful
Enough to crawl; but they could not stroll:
They slammed the door in my face
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Would I choose to live in a world
Where your breath was exhausted
Your rare flowering blood, wasted
Poured out on the branch of random chance?
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Flying through the fevered sun
Dust of electrons, your time will come;
With tiny hands we cannot see,
Purveyor of some fluid dream.
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Don't try to write for the masses-
Your sleight-of-the-hand phrase of articulated beauty
Will scarcely be acknowledged.
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