guillermo veloso Poems

Are you coming?
I could use the company it asks.
Is there a forgiveness in the passing?
There!
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Dreams unfurl in the restless
Winds of your sleep
Roses come unattended to your door
Where do your valentine roses come from my dear?
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Deep in the dark-jungled green
Of my day dream addled
Despair
The man sold me
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How did I lose you?
This wrenching yet subtle pain
I held you so close to me, I could feel
This connection to earth and years
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The yellowing eyes embrace the yellowing sun and follow its arc through the white fence
I am seeking crumbs of memories like the chango
that dart in and out of the just painted fence
Crumbs of memories
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My lizard saints
Play in the bramble
Under the morning haze
Beckon and seek
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I will travel today
With my ghosts and stories
In a bag
I go to shepherd
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Erase it
Scour it
Bury it
Forget it
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Then this picture of Dorian Grey
Frays as his
Tattered foretold-you-sos laying across the writing desk and
Scattered across a life as
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