Valerie Dohren Poems

The world shall go on turning
Through the darkness of despair
As I, with seamless yearning, strive
To find a haven there
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Today I held a universe
Within my palm confined
It glittered in the shining sun
A galaxy defined
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If sleep should steal your soul, my love,
Before the twilight falls,
Then I shall be there by your side
When’er the darkness calls.
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The sweetest sound I ever heard
So issued from a tiny bird
That all the universe stood still
To listen to his joyful trill.
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O fill the desert in my heart
With words of tenderness -
Sweet words of comfort to impart
My soul to soft caress
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Soft shadows drift in night`s embrace
To linger, falling on your face,
With nought to dread nor yet to care
No sorrow borne nor yet despair
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I saw your tears in dawn’s soft light
As close beside you then I lay
Within my arms I held you tight
To ease you through another day
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Gladly shall I greet the morning
At the rising of the sun
All the land so bright illumined -
Hail another day begun
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I knew a song once,

a long time ago.
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Beautiful lady, born of the night
Floating across the ebony sky
Clothed in soft gossamer, shimmering bright
Beneath all your charms, to love and to cry
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