J.R. Holmes

The piercing ringer stabbed the heart of my rest
As he dragged me from the calm sea of dreams
Onto the rough sands of consciousness.
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All is fair in love and war
For the luscious, who hoard stores
Of attachments they once lured -
A war that they lust for more.
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I told her,
"Hallie-Jane,
I explosively confess - you are my angel on the next page
Of a romantic act of a love play on a Broadway stage.
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A powerful artist you are Molière!
The way you command your words with tease and care
Is like a steamy love affair
That fires my mind with fiery flare!
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Amid a bustling marketplace
On the busy streets of Hong Kong,
A horrid image, far from grace,
Sought me like a terrible song
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Alone I stand on the edge of a cliff, gazing
The child-crafts, on their dark azure abode, bowing
To the ghastly, mighty Mountain trembling the sea.
He yields the whirling winds through my body to breathe
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Tomorrow,
They'll be asking me
"What's the difference
Between happiness and sadness? "
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I'm so sorry, my friend.
So sorry I keep fading,
Fading away from you;
Leaving myself colorless
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Wild child, I'm sorry to say -
You must not crayon me no more
Nor can we place a time to play.
No longer can you be a hermit hardcore.
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Father Star, can't you see the signs?

Now is the time for me to be mine
And illuminate across the infinite hall after our nightly dines
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Loneliness is when a single string on a harp
Is ashamed by its "foul" noise
And never caressed by a jovial heart.
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This woman I've known for a year
Is tall and wide with red bricked skin,
Just like her brother who stands near.
Shallowness is her only sin.
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My young, sweet, pretty butterfly
Who made my love for the world so high.
Why, why did you shy and fly too high in the sky?
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Look beyond my Oriental lineage;
Beyond the yellow complexion
That governs my brothers' perception
Of my American heritage -
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It always has been and forever will be
That lovely short roads that "never" grew old
Would eventually mold for us to venture unseen roads
Unfolded by the heavens for us to see.
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Ferocious fangs gnaw on my feet
As I balance through scorching sands.
So much pain the amber grain creeps
Into my brain that burns so deep.
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