Valerie Dohren Poems

'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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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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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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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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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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I sat beneath the Willow tree
And cried in sad lament -
The Willow wept because I wept;
Despaired and discontent
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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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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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