Valerie Dohren

After the rain the air is sweet
With glist`ning pools beneath my feet
Raindrops dripping down from the eaves
Teardrops slipping off shining leaves
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'Oh sweet breath of eternal life
Dance ever `pon her silent breast
Released from pain and worldly strife
The one I love is laid to rest'
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I close my eyes to find a place
In different time and different space
And in imagination find
A cloistered arbour for my mind
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A single rose with thorny stem
On mother nature`s tattered hem
Which no-one cares to steal away
So left to wither and decay
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Such princely and linguistic feats
As penned by Shelley, Byron, Keats
Though rich and eloquently grand
Are oft` too deep to understand
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I saw the face of beauty fixed
Upon the rising sun
Beyond all mortal compliment
Her loveliness there shone
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Today I slipped into a dream
And saw a better world
A world of peace and gentleness
Before my eyes unfurled
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The world is full of rubbish
I see it all around
Strewn along the pavements
And scattered ‘cross the ground
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I am the wind that blows in your hair
I am the joy in the smile that you wear

I am the grass that cushions your feet
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I sat beneath the Willow tree
And cried in sad lament -
The Willow wept because I wept;
Despaired and discontent
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Night falls, and only dreams remain
Dim dreams of all that might have passed -
Set deep in shadows, thus my soul
Beneath the dying sun is cast
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Gladly will my heart surrender
At the closing of the day
When my eyes shall rest in slumber
Chasing sorrows fast away
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What becomes of love that falters
Skies that turn from blue to grey
Tenderness which coldness alters
Eyes then sadly turn away
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What moves behind those darkling eyes
What memories concealed -
What shadows drift within their gaze
What visions unrevealed
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Upon the glow of evening mist
Beneath the darkened sky
Whilst gazing at the moonlight pale
I heard the night birds cry
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Oh sir, I’m just a woman
How could I understand
For you are set above me
So tall and proud and grand
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Looking down through misty spheres
To visit wondrous lands
Hewn through time, through endless years,
Green fields and golden sands
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I dreamed of love
but not like this –

a silent heart
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I caught the train to Hell today
A dark and bumpy ride
So many souls were huddled there
Full packed it was inside
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Oh, somewhere in the deep, dark night,
I lost a lovely dream -
It drifted through my sleeping hours,
Just like a sparkling stream.
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