Karen Edwards Poems

Let me get this off my chest
like the ill-fitting bra
that has been suffocating
me since before dawn.
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In the veil between life and death,
the deal was struck as I drew breath.
A fate which I cannot deflect,
the reaper comes now to collect.
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Life inherently moves forward,
progress, change, passing moments
racing onward until the minute
we cease and cross the veil to
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Daises dreading the inevitable,
eventual choice of the nervous young man
scanning the flora. Never the pick, passed over
in spite their fresh, innocent appearance. Always the
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With baited hooks and bated breath
out on the dock, sit side by side
two life-long friends that once again
compete for bragging rights, for pride.
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Rusted and corroded-
crumbling tintypes left to rot
in a soggy hat box
in the attic.
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Under the cover of time the dreamers whisper,
words that only the heart can hear.
Memories merged with dreams until
she feels him there, standing at
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When she lived among us,
I think even then we knew,
she was something special
a little more than me or you.
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The lady and the dolphins three,
dance in the water crystalline.
So beautiful, so wild and free
in a place untouched, still pristine.
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Apathetic, an automaton
bereft of compassion;
scar tissue shrouds
her fragile heart.
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