Paul Reed Poems

Presents have been exchanged
And now the New Year calls
Tree taken down, room re-arranged
Cards unstuck from walls;
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I rest here on the kitchen window sill
Safe from harm and winter chill
I have been delivered here by loving hand
A soldier from the human band;
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How long is January, you ask
Because it seems an endless wait till Spring
And the days when every little thing
Seems so much better;
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Arrows of sunlight splitting the blinds
Fading photographs and chastening minds
Lighting the corners of a forgotten dream
Thoughts tumbling down a mountain stream
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The two of them danced
Not as a couple, but apart
On the wet morning grass
They would prance and dart
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I like to be amongst the woods
In shaded places
With a suggestion of sunshine
Where the birds sing high in the treetops
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It's not enough to know the world is sour
Now we have to endure another hour
On a Sunday at the end of the week
To prove to us the world is bleak
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Are we just ants in the pavement cracks?
And the sky is just the sole of someone's boot
The moon a pearl on our army's silvery backs
Drawing us on to the earth's tap root
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Is there something better than this?

Something out there, unknown
Akin to heavenly bliss
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When I was twenty one
I received a gift of farewell
A leather wallet from colleagues
The future it could not tell;
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