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Poems  by Sea and Moonlight

A Smile
I have a SEED
Somewhere within I am
Hugo
Letter to My Brother Frank
Dictation for a Dictator
An Open Door; Heed It
Toast to You
Gleaming Eyes
Said Ken to Me
Count to Satan
Loneliness
Reflective Voyage
Pick up the Pail
Death Today
Quick Life
Old Man's Whistle
God Is:
Each Season
As If Infinity
One Hears the Tune
Have I forgotten Jesus?
Brain Damage
Church Description
Den
Death in a Jungle
Ten Lines
Nature's Law
It's Still Sad
The Flea Tree
Gain or Lose
Going Away from Here
Nightmare
Talking about People
Towns and their People
Dear, Dear, Dearest
Population
Top Line
Mountains Reach
Upon these Grounds
A Ship?
Let the Timbers Shake
Wladyshaw
Winds of Fate
Sweet Young Girl
Fingers of Nature
The Lord Spoke
The Celtic Told Me
Mary
Poem to Pat
A Free Man
Poem


The lord spoke
and she was stricken from me.
Helpless limbs as branches on a tree,
one silence
and she was taken softly from me.

The needlework of younger days
fell somehow loosely apart.
And picture frames held by stays
talk some words to my heart.

A tapestry of gold and white
sigh circles around my heart.
And gloryful stars of the night
remind me that we're apart.

Whose majesty can pry this way
and draft out all our lives?
What suffering is this we pay,
tribute to end our lives?

The lord spoke.
Pray death is well to meet.
Pray heaven is long and sweet.