Ben Partenay Poems

Create me a world with words my dear,
with pen and hand.
Where we can read love on river bed so clear,
written in sand.
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Please smile your eyes to the rhythm
Of your heart and your heart alone
Watch as the night grows darker
And the moon turns into stone
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Were you to know me, as I have known myself,
to watch the night moon fall heavily alongside
the river, let the current take you anywhere, as
my heart has led me by a tattered string. you
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the only honesty
i ever saw
was a blind man
giving the finger
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There’s a young little boy in the old town square
Who sits so quietly
And looks at the sun and the dust in the air
And he never smiles for me
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We walked upon the mountains in a fog
The town below sat covered in alone
While mountain birds sat tired from their singing
We tried to find a little bit of home
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this floor is frozen with cold
and
the windows have
jack frosts
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spent last night
alone
reading all the old poems
I’d written
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the sounds from outside mix with the
hammer in my head, mix with the rain
on the roof, tap, tap, drip, drop,
so much noise the robin can’t be heard
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night waits for the last eye of a house
to close, that last light in a room to darken
but no more, I sit up, wait for dawn
wait for the street sweeper to pass Main
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