William Coyne Poems

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1.
Forest Limerick

If someone calls you a nobody,
don't let it break your spirit,
if you're there in the forest,
and a tall tree falls
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2.
Brown Box

I dreamed I threw away a little brown box,
that lingered in the corner of a place
I rented in the southern end of the Bronx,
for I found other functions for that space.
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3.
No Dark Invitation

The dark shall come on its own.
So please, only dim the light
a bit, that I may yet see
the flowers' blooms in vases
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4.
Saving Face

Of every fresh and regal petal,
none dared to rest within her rosy hand,
for fear that she, the fairest in the land,
shame their glory and their loveliness.
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5.
Lowly Bow

Grateful that we found some precious time,
to place our jangled words from line to line,
and raise some part of our inner feelings
to nurse the bruises of daily dealings,
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6.
Christina's Home

She works her bony arms and gnarled hands,
to crawl along a grassy, brown field,
to view a paint stripped, old and gray farm house,
under ashen sky, her frailty unconcealed.
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7.
Day Three

'Twas day three after the solemn Christian
holiday, when gifts given with happy
hearts and good will are found under green trees,
gaily decorated with candles, candies,
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8.
Lear And One Lesser

No Lear, mad from ungrateful children's
serpentine hisses,
am I, sad from my long uncaring kin's
welcoming kisses.
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9.
Ezra's Rite

Appearing from my slumber's vapors,
Ezra's lines on toilet papers,
held by soiled fingers reaching,
extending Dionysian teaching.
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10.
Now, Now

Rivers I traveled for many a year,
then wide and deep, now shallow I fear,
more narrow than I remember,
trickled to creeks of early December.
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