Robert Leary Poems

The puppet has a vision
With many strings attached
A life for every season
Winter, Summer, Spring or Fall
...

It was a love so deep inside
That in his heart
The butterfly doth reside
...

In the garden
You sit upon my book
I look you in the eye
…receive a pleasant look
...

I

Oh willow like a bird so fair
Your hair abloom ignites the air
...

An empty vase upon the table
decorously awaiting your return.
What flowers do you ceremoniously
bring, ambrosial dreams to bloom,
...

How like a bird you are
Heroic canary
In my heart’s mine
Gull hung in the wind
...

How do you teach someone to love?
They sit before you: "I don't feel the way you do".
"Of course not" you say…"you have to learn to love…
You knew it as a child and lost it like a toy, broken.
...

It feels awkward walking alone
Along this pier tonight
Shyly I stare at the screws
In the planking
...

The rain growls on the roof,
starving, dog chew bones in the gutter.
All night the frightened trains gape
though the tunnels in my mind
...