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Thousands of crickets –
Chirping to be noticed not
By other crickets –
But rather by some humans –
Seeking crickets to play with
07.28.18 – 08.12.18
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Notes to this poem…
Take the mangåta –
From wherever you are –
And meet me at the moon
11.11.16
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Notes to this poem…
I have what you need –
You have what I need –
Let’s put them together –
To get what we want –
And live happily –
Ever after
10.02.16 – 10.07.16
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Notes to this poem…
How long should someone
Fairly wait for a response
From a Tinder match?
I chose a hundred hours for
Triple digit hours’ patience
10.05.16
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Notes to this poem…
Serenaded the stars with
My favourite love
Songs for lullabies
09.03.16
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Notes to this poem…
While in close embrace dancing –
I felt her heart beating –
Gently, but out of time –
So I adjusted my breathing –
And made it sync with mine
02.16.15 – 02.18.15
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Notes to this poem…
Full moon eyes in thought –
Crescent moon eyes in laughter –
Blue moon eyes in love –
The kind of eyes I’m after
02.02.15
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Notes to this poem…
I dream of you when I’m asleep –
I dream of you when I’m awake –
In the former, a lovely couple we make –
In the latter, hope is all I keep
07.25.04 – 07.26.04
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Notes to this poem…
In my world –
Contacts I need but one –
Like the world
Needs but one sun
To give it light –
To give it life –
To make it bright –
To make it right
In my world –
Contacts I need but one –
The sun in my world –
My Janie Astephen
07.18.04 – 07.20.04
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Notes to this poem…
A gift made for me by Janie –
These brownies are so much sweeter
Than any I’ve ever known –
Sweetened by the sweetness of Janie –
A girl so much sweeter
Than any I’ve ever known
07.16.04
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Notes to this poem…
To you seated by the window
Where the view is so fair –
Are you aware
That ’tis not nearly so fair –
As that from the other side
When you are seated there?
02.27.04 – 03.03.04
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Notes to this poem…
I saw a shooting star tonight –
And I thought of you – *
While thinking of the wishes I wanted to make
And hoping they would come true
I saw a shooting star tonight –
And I thought of you –
I wanted to wish that you could be here
So I could be with you
I saw a shooting star tonight –
And I thought of you –
I wanted to wish that you loved me
As much as I loved you
I saw a shooting star tonight –
And I thought of you –
I thought about which wish I wanted more
As only one could come true
I was at the cross-roads –
I didn’t know what to do –
As far as I was concerned –
Both wishes had to come true
But I could not make one wish now –
And hold the second for another night –
Uncertain how long I might have to wait
Before I’d see another shooting star take flight
I saw a shooting star tonight –
And I thought of you –
Not knowing which wish I wanted more –
I made a wish for two
I saw a shooting star tonight –
And I thought of you –
I hope that when I next see a shooting star –
I will see it with you
03.28.99 – 04.24.99
* Lines from the Bob Dylan song, Shooting Star
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Notes to this poem…
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