Elizabeth Shield

your accent is like, cherry-caramel to my ears
my favourite flavour, and it kills
me when you stop talking, to ask if I am
listening; I hear your tones more than your
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Piano player take my by the hand
And tell me how galaxies revolve
With starry arms and nebulous fingers
Etched in your mind
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They say what we've accomplished now,
is all the fruit of all we've wrought
how beautiful it is, they say
ignoring how one-sided this
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burgundy, the color of wine
and cashmere
a noble stain, sweet and dark
like old music, enchanting yet haunting
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The grass flickers, as the
Wind pushes it down, in
A gentle but determined
Motion, sweeping upwards to
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You are azure, like the sky and,
at one point, I thought that I
could fly,
up into the wide expanse
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Wind in the trees
Pollen in the air
Water from the garden hose
Dripping from my hair
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Mandarin orange, sunset gleam
Across the slowly painted hills
A fire is dying in the sky
Upon the wire the crows alight
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Your eyes are like starlight,
scattered constellations and I am all agog
and I am lost, because
I cannot tell Orion from the Pleiades,
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When did we ever say it, that we would always be together
Naïvely thinking, the world was ours, taking it at our leisure
The harsh facts, life is ephemeral, fleeting swiftly on hinds feet
We deigned to forget our troubles, and doused ourselves in pleasure
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To while away the waning hours
beneath the scarlet, sunlit leaves
Now or never, say the flowers
they are dying as you grieve
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'Kill me now! ' the writer said, his fountain pen in hand
the crimson stain upon the page had marked it like a brand
his rheumy eyes and matted hair suggested age and disrepair
he had no pride left to wear, and said glibly with distant stare
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melancholy
midsummer's dreamers
passing sunny days and clear blue skies
and missing the rain
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So see the poetry and shine
Your words make you as bright as stars
About you is a graceful air
While concentration fills your face
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Silken halos round the lights
Wreathing unfamiliar nights
Dawn is still to far to say
I wish it were another day
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Ascending raindrops, lilies bloomed
And there we stood so clear
And yet so indistinct, the background lay
Twining softly, limbs and boughs
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Denial is a hungry feeling
Towering like a tidal wave
Its sharpened claws can send you reeling
Will power is the force to save
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The furry pines flow down the mountain
Fur on an untamable beast
While green hills rest timid at the slopes
and roads drip off the sides
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We both caught love at the midnight train
Standing by the stations doors
Looking at the other
Separated only by glass
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