Patti Masterman Poems

And some are salt, and some are honey,
Some stay poor, and some want money,
Some love to lay you;
Some just lay there
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Deny the air;
You must straightaway, deny the wind-
Deny the wind;
Must deny, all the things he moved here
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Before the day my flesh first knew
Whose face is bent upon my own
When time and tides were swimming fish
And the mountains newly hone
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And so you think
Your love more real
Than stories so fantastic,
Of princesses and fairy
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Together we were wild and innocent;
Dark church hovered ghost-like
And the world waited in whispers.
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A tear is just a prism for the light;
A sigh is just a bit of saved delight;
A yawn is just a muffled sign of sleep;
A sneeze, a burst of secret that we keep.
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Hallowed be thy name
True reality of mind
Just myself left to attain
To unbury the divine.
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Poor lonely orphans of earth,
Lost from our past, from our kin;
Tired travelers of solitude's path-
From what cosmic egg were birthed,
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Numberless mandalas
Of sitting Bodhisattvas
Numerous vows
Of sacred cows
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Wish in one hand
Want in the other
If I'd hope that we could marry
You'd have turned out my brother
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