Gayle Sweeney Poems

Powdery white snow blanketed the trees
Where boughs beckoned to us so peacefully.
The earth was once green and brought flowers and joy.
Up in the black sky stars can tell us stories.
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While raking the old garden to make room
For spring green sprouts he heard a sudden yelp.
On the ground he couldn't see a thing doomed
But there had been a distressed cry for help.
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It was spring then
And my niece was a student in Paris.
My sister and I had flown from Boston together
For a visit.
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The strawberry moon glowed over the deep, dark ocean,
Sailing during the night with elegant devotion.
The bright moon was full and in the sky was beckoning
While the small, shining waves below were genuflecting.
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Oceans of mandarin orange played upon the bright, sun painted wings
Of a Monarch in the air who made happy, shimmery blossoms sing!
By and by this graceful butterfly fluttered like a dancer from Spain.
It floated with a soft breeze then stopped atop some petals where it
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Lo and behold in the white winter wonderland
A snowman was magic made from snowballs.
Rolled and rolled in the soft fresh fallen snow,
The snowman was formed and he spread cheer
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Pure sorrow is deep down in my heart
And from there a mist doesn't depart.
I have my grandmother's diamond.
It still shines in the glistening sun.
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Out beautiful time at home on the spinning earth is brief.
The old ones survive this dear world deeply fatigued from grief.
The wish to see our lost loved ones up in heaven aloft
Is a glorious wish carried with us in our true thoughts.
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Violets, spied in a sea of deep grass,
Blossom in the sunny, cool green enmasse.
Their sole sojourn in dancing spring began.
Wrapped in amethyst they color the land.
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I'm blue
So blue
Because I don't belong to you,
Oh so lonesome blue.
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