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FOR THE LOVE OF A POET

"NOW"

LASTING IMPRESSION

A MIRROR LIKE NONE'S EVER BEEN FOUND

A LOVER'S INTERLUDE

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THE VERY FACE OF GOD

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"WHAT WAS HIS NAME"?

I DO NOT KNOW
FROM WHENCE HE CAME,
BUT THIS I KNOW
HE LEFT NO NAME

"NEW THOUGHT", HE ASKED,
"ARE YOU READY TO THINK,
AND SET HERE ON THE BANK
AND GIVE YOUR BRAIN A DRINK?"

"NEW THOUGHT?", ME ASKED
"WHAT BE THAT?"
AS I RAISED ME EYEBROW
AND NUDGED ME HAT....

"WHY THAT BE OLD
BEFORE BIRDS FLY,"
HE ANSWERED WITH A
MERRY TWINKLE IN HIS EYE,

"LONG BEFORE TIME
COULD EVER BEGIN
OLD THOUGHT WAS NEW
LIKE A SILENT WIND,

BUT THE FUNNY THING,"
HE WHISPERED TO ME,
"OLD THOUGHT IS HERE
NEW AS CAN BE,

AND THERE BE A TIME
WITH SPACE THROWED IN,
WITH A DASH OF WONDER
FROM GOD'S OWN GRIN,

HE MADE THE OLD THOUGHT
LOOK LIKE NEW
AND HIS OLD/NEW THOUGHT
JUST GREW AND GREW

AND THERE APPEARED
FROM THE GLINT IN HIS EYE
A HE FOR A SHE
AND A SHE FOR A GUY

AND HE MADE THEM PERFECT
THIS HE AND SHE
AND NEW THOUGHT HE GAVE THEM
AND THE POWER TO BE,

ANYTHING THEY DESIRE
SET ABLAZE FROM ON HIGH
LIKE THE STARS OF FIRE
FROM GOD'S OWN EYE

TO CREATE AND MANIFEST
AS GOD ABOVE
THE POWER, THE STRENGTH
TO FASHION LOVE

OR AN EARTHLY HOUSE TO LIVE IN
OR A CAR THAT WALKED,
OR A RADIO GADGET OR TV
THAT SET AND TALKED,

THE POWER TO KNOW RIGHT
AND NEVER SEE WRONG
THE JOY OF FLIGHT
IN A BIRD'S SONG

THE DREAM FROM A PLANET
AND THE MOON'S SOFT GLOW,
WITH AN OCEAN OF WONDER
HIDDEN DEEP BELOW

A RAIN STORM, A CALM
OF A SHIP ON A SEA
AN EMOTION TO FEEL
INSIDE YOU AND ME,

THIS BE OLD THOUGHT
BACK THEN IT WAS NEW",
THEN HE WAVED HIS HAND
AND THE SKY TURNED ALL BLUE

AND QUICK LIKE A WINK
HE WAS GONE AS HE CAME
I STILL WONDER TODAY
"WHAT WAS HIS NAME"?

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