Maryanne Richards Poems

Desire leads the mind
In all its cunning ways.
All around the known it goes,
We see this while in a trance,
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I see in you the beauty of a jewel
It opens up my heart to see the sun.
I ask, why does this not last?
For I have felt the hand that defends you.
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Children need nurture and care
And love of course always there.
They need freedom to grow,
Not, do as I say for I know.
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Memories, they come and go
Here and there to and fro
Some take us back to the good times
And happy we are to go.
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As you pass this way say a quiet hello
Even shake a leaf or two.
We send you our love with the wafting perfume
As we open our face to the sun.
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What is it that makes me, me
That seems so different from you
I am a body a brain and genetic past
I am ideas and ideals and conditioning that goes deep.
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For a long time
I've been looking for me
With the past as my guide
And fear my companion
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Death is in the birds that fly
And in the morning sunrise
Together life and death abide.
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Where is the joy
That catches the heart
And comes in a moment
Unbidden, from nowhere,
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A light withdrawn
To a realm of peace and love
Unthinking the words came while gazing
Over the place he loved to play.
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