Summer Shaw Poems

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1.
Oh My God

Did you know...

God is in church today
God wears expensive yoga pants
God likes beads
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2.
You Were, You Are

I read your works and am shaken up inside-
All hackney sacked and alive
But still
At the same time-
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3.
A Love Letter To Jack

You were my first love and I found you by accident
Quietly sitting in a row among others with that blue jacket on-
The course of my life forever changed.
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4.
To The Room Where We First Met

Back, back, back
through the seasons
to you in my arms and eyes.
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5.
Our Womb

You sit close to me
on the porch each day
and we talk about moving to the west
and dream about our new house with rooms
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6.
To Washington From Texas

Going…going…gone
On six wheels with the weight in the back
And all of our memories stacked
In brown boxes just so
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7.
Today

It's hit me on the head,
This is it...
This is my life...
Wammo!
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8.
Sun Day

Halfway through the heat of a hot day,
the sun began to whisper a story into my pours,
Barely audible, the sun's voice broke into the silence
of all sacred thoughts saying,
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9.
Kittens

I'm trying to write something happy
although I don't feel that way
Something that will make another smile
although my lips won't make that shape
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10.
Silence And Laughter

I've been too serious lately
with my melancholy thoughts and half-moon eyes
Always dying, always dying, always dying inside
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