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11.08.04/24 av 5764 *** 14:25
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i had a dream the other night
that shook me to the core
standing right in~front of me
(you never would before)
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i could tell that you’d grown older
i could see it in your eyes
fast~approaching twenty~five
and just about to realise–
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somewhere in that very dream
i met my oldest friend
standing right in~front of me
fore~telling of my end
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i could tell that i’d grown wiser
’cause i didn’t even flinch
after living all these years
i thought “to die” must be a cinch
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no wonder you’d appear just then
when i’d got used to see my death
my soul about to be set free
from all this world’s calamity
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no wonder you’d appear so fast
with me about to breathe my last
my soul about to let it go
and leave yours on the earth alone
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remember dante’s lover and the tragic day she died
full of light~n~splendour–she was only twenty~five!!!
was that the muted~message of
the dream wherein i saw my love
or was she there as prophecy
to toll~the~bell that tolls~for~me
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with the light and the hope of
a smile in her look
in~love and in~exile, he wrote her a book
a book of which the likes of it
had never e’er been seen
three volumes~full of poetry
composed in “terza rime”
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with the light pouring~out ’round
the side of her head
a girl from his past, took his future instead
a future he could not fore~tell
the loss of ego’s gain
visions~of~love so spiritual
they couldn’t be explained
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***** (inspired by a dream i had about dying)
Thanks for posting this, B. Martha was someone I didn’t know well, and yet I loved her brilliance, her wit, and her kindness. I very much enjoy these poems, and am tickled by her clever use of the period here. I hope you are comforted by visions of her carefree life/afterlife, as I am. Love to both of you. ♥️
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