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Now and then

Now and then

I want to tell you

I am something different

To what you think I am.

 

I want to hold your hand

Now and then

And look into your eyes

Before turning away

Suddenly just to confuse you.

 

Now and then

I want to write love song

After love song

For you

And keep writing

Until the skin starts

To fall off my fingers.

 

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She Leaves Me Small Gift

for Shay Mowrey Pauley

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christopher leibow   poetry   audio file   love poem   she leave me small gifts

O Sweet Confusion

Wisdom is not chronological.

 

One wasp

hidden in the gentle petals

makes all the blossoms suspect

and much joy is lost.

 

 

 

 

 

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Perfect Place

I don’t want to wake you
When you’re sleeping so quiet
on my shoulder.

I don’t want to brush your
Hair back down from your face
or turn down the stereo.

I don’t want to sing in
the rain nor do I want
to sail away into the sunset.

I don’t want to close the curtains
and shut out the moon
Shining down on us
Like we are in the spotlight
of some imaginary film.

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