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When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.
The touch of
your fingers
grazing mine
delicate as
a single drop of wine
in a crystal goblet.
Rolling it round,
I savor it on my tongue,
try to
make it last
forever.
The words
I
love
you
form
in the air
and melt.
Your palm
against
my cheek,
light as
a snowflake.
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.
It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask,
Mother, what was war?
A good poem contains both meaning and music
