Joseph D E Phillips

Said the old woman
while holding
her lover's hand
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It's almost midnight.
Please don't pine
as clock hand finds
one one five nine.
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the gray cloud of the gray world
will grab you
make you sad
...

Her feathers are her pride
And skin her feathers hide,
Her skin so pale and pink and frail,
She suffers deep inside.
...

Be still, loves, be still!

Find the happy medium
that path to enlightenment
...

My America is an idea.
Many nations will fall and rise
but as long as ideas live
my America will never die.
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As clouds broke down
the sun reached in
and warmed my bones
and baked my skin.
...

Sphere
Sphere of blackness draws everything closer.
Even light itself cannot escape.
Time stops within.
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The tree is wise and old.
Its leaves are rustling softly.
A voice is weeping awfully,
why have you grown so cold?
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Snow blows softly
this way and that
across the concrete
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Run, Time,
run — faster than the
wind — hotter than the
sun — more dangerous than
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My love for you, my dear, is like this leaf:
it changes, never stopping, dear,
it flourishes then, dropping, dies
but never truly dies for it still is!
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Remember the soldiers who died in battle
Forced by our leaders
Into cut-throats
Who shot open the bowels of fellow Man
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The lure of mystery enthralls this heart.
The veiling fog wraps up those trees seductively
Like a woman, unknown.
...

The smoke of my pipe rises
as sacred incense in the temple of god
as sacrifices in the ancient temple,
it rises to the nostrils of god.
...

The chill of the wind pricked my heart as it rose.
My icy hands longed for a fire.
I stood there and shivered.
The trees… how they quivered!
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If I could see those waves again
And feel the ocean spray against my face
And smell that air and hear that gentle roar
I'd see, feel, smell and hear again,
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I spent twelve hours in the factory
to put heat in the house
and pay for the house
and put food on my family's table
...

It is not a cat.
Do not stand quietly
waiting for it to come.
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Your lips stole my breath
the first time they touched
and not even death
could scare me so much
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