Patti Masterman Poems

The velocity of love
Is straight, as starlight flies
From the breath of dying embers,
From the whispers of a sigh.
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windows work their magic way with you
morning steam wakes up to a translucent joy
surrounding the present dazzling sky
no worry pierces night's brilliant flower
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the stars look so right
but I'm a lonely place tonight:
closed signs already gone up
in the windows;
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Why do eyes still invisibly follow
In the shadows we never can go
The woods to your house are too far
For my life catching up is too slow
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Through a glass darkly, one night in my dreams,
I found myself inside a huge residence-
So large, I could not see from one room the
Confines of the next one; great open spaces
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Waiting alone some night
Would I find you watching
Through windows of time?
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If you lived in marble columns
Your muted voice would seem so solemn
If you lived in the deepest rill
The echo of your words might thrill
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Someday we're going back
Down the narrow tunnel
With the exit light buzzing at the end
All our grudges done with
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I have poems to sell;
Words tied up in pretty parcels with string
Bundles of clingy sentiments
Love eternal and grief unrequited-
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I have seen your eyes so grave;
The quiet, gentle hands that hold
The little book; and your thoughts, brave.
The lined pages that they enfold:
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