Journey Home

By CottonJones

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Journey Home c.2013, Olan L. Smith Journey Home is a collection of poems that is a personal search for my spi... More

Journey Home
Paint Life with Words
Time Surfers
Origin
Seventh Wheel Spins
A Place Held Secret
A Sower Weeps
Upon a Moment
Tornadic
Superfluous
Wayward
Jack and Jill, According to Shakespeare
Springtide in Missouri
Connected Collective
The End, a New Mythos
Sonnet II, Breath so Vile
Acrostic: We Are Alive
Life's Vast Timber
Her Muteness
Pantoum: Black Widow
Cotton's Paradox
Mouse in the House
Children of Push
Eternal Gratitude
Pantoum: Heed the Shadows
Falling Birds, Receding Shores
Victimized
Beating of the Hooves
Tale of a Blue Fae
Tears and Fears
Blank-verse Sonnet, No. 1: Breathtaking
Unclothe Our Heart
Sonnet III: Heaven's Sill
Heaven's Peal, an Elegy
Conclusion: Endings Begin

Beneath Weeping Willows

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By CottonJones

Beneath Weeping Willows

©2012, Olan L. Smith

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She pokes me on my pillow; her voice is a tall glass of iced coffee

Sweetened to perfection, doctored to my taste,

“Write of us under weeping willows, tell how you took my chastity.”

She wraps her wings around me; her feathers tickle my core, posthaste

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A tingle ascends my spine from tail to crown; I am truly bless-ed

For her support lifts me to lofty planes of existence; she frees

My mind filling it with majestic familiarity of life before, a river never jaded―

Memories of when I first spied her nude beauty beneath the willow trees.

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Her long dark hair, waterfalls touching the loam;

Her flesh, pale pink ― her feathers a winter’s snow;

Her words stimulate my awareness, awakens my being; her wisdom a tome

To read and comprehend, for she is my mate for eternity ― my spiritual plateau.

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