Sonny Rainshine Poems

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171.
Memento Mori: A Memo

If to dust we must submit,
and with the cold December wind
incorporate our breath,
when lowered last into the pit,
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172.
The Space Between The Space Between

So many miles of earth and rock
and we linger here on the surface,
living on the crust, and dying just beneath.
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173.
Inhospitable Places

Just as you to inhospitable places
are drawn, so am I.

Just as some je ne sais quoi
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174.
When Blue Is Blue Enough

On some days the sky is not cerulean blue,
it is not azure or indigo, nor is it the tint
of someone’s grandmother’s antique ewer.
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175.
Haiku: Chrysalis

Pale green-swirled cradle,
rock-a-bye in the cool breeze.
Dream of butterflies.
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176.
Wooden Phoenix

A single needle drops from the pine,
but the tree remains.
A storm snaps off a branch,
but the trunk stays.
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177.
Yes And No And Yes

I was born unhappy.
I will live unhappily.
You are the only person
who can release me
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178.
Lingering Chatter

The space between you and me, the air,
is a conduit for conversations past, all jumbled,
declarations of love and idle curses,
folded into the wind.
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179.
Lovable

Not that long ago, she was so sure
that affection and love were entitlements,
promised and secure,
sort of a social security of the heart.
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180.
Ricochet

She dispenses the lava of her wrath,
molten and churning with chunks of regret,
into everyone she meets,
measuring it into compartments,
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