tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84301518323517363922024-03-12T23:19:13.369-07:00Deborah Lightfoot's Poetry and Photo BlogO how the sap floods.Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-5648441044182510872013-09-12T08:23:00.001-07:002013-09-20T18:48:23.031-07:00The Margins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Night nibbles at the margins<br />
of the day, yearning for its page<br />
to be read all the way up to dawn--<br />
a book we can't put down<br />
until dreams illustrate its musings:<br />
Silverfish scuttle away<br />
upon discovery, and<br />
brittle-page odor of<br />
a thousand nights stowed away<br />
threatens to awaken us--but<br />
does not have the kindness<br />
to do so.<br />
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12 September 2012<br />
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Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-265153105447871232013-04-29T11:35:00.000-07:002013-04-29T12:12:02.962-07:00Wringing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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leaning against the door<br />
of the refrigerator<br />
to hear the hum and <br />
to feel the reverberations,<br />
to absorb the rush of life<br />
outside that other door--<br />
the electricity of connections<br />
to voices and ideas<br />
and busy-ness<br />
and songs and chatter,<br />
growth--<br />
to escape the fading<br />
of life and dreams<br />
soaking me up<br />
like a sponge,<br />
leaving me dripping<br />
and spreading across<br />
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Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-80739253961858068612013-03-30T00:12:00.000-07:002013-03-30T00:29:46.587-07:00Love Poem, Inspired by the Bards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Love is deeper than any sea that<br />
I thought I would ever scavenge,<br />
A rough and roiling voyage--<br />
Not a frolic in a pond<br />
Which only breathes of fronds and polliwogs.<br />
Love is not Ophelia's barge entombed<br />
With weeds which drifted her unto death.<br />
Love leaks in floodwaters of despair, yet<br />
Builds a lighthouse to guide the valiant bark<br />
Home to its craggy shore.<br />
Love is not the perpetual trumping by a hero's antics<br />
Nor a schoolboy's daring <br />
To prove the heart for a flutter<br />
Of a simple kerchief or the wink of a darling Calypso.<br />
A steadfast hymn is the longest song--not a Siren's call<br />
To dash one's heart, not an Antony's pact with Cleopatra<br />
To die for drama's sake to prove that the world is cruel.<br />
Monotonous seems the daily embarking and the disembarking in<br />
The mornings and the nights,<br />
And persistent are the tides that ebb and flow with lunar moods--<br />
But passionate sings the deepest rhythm that few can ever hear<br />
In the crashing of the waves of dear devotion that<br />
Sanctifies my reason to dive headlong into the depths--<br />
To be one with the currents that satisfy my reason to weave<br />
The net that holds my love as a constant trophy.<br />
<br />Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-41456803434578583712013-03-28T20:48:00.000-07:002013-03-28T21:01:14.706-07:00ANOTHER PLAY HAS ENDED<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another play has ended.<br />
The audience disengage the<br />
Magnetism of the boards--<br />
Catharsis completed,<br />
The cycles of heroes repaired.<br />
They tread gingerly into aisles<br />
Toward other realities, lumbering<br />
A bit, questioning the return<br />
To the tedium that has sent them into this<br />
Realm of the stage of sounds and<br />
Sights, marvels and ether--<br />
Wondering how<br />
To enlighten--<br />
Murmuring<br />
To their equals and to themselves<br />
(unlike groundlings and fickle mobs)<br />
So as not to frighten<br />
The Muse<br />
Whom they wish <br />
To carry away as in a basket<br />
Of rushes--<br />
To flow gently<br />
As a river might--past the populations<br />
Who know no art.<br />
<br />Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-44379922543322402002013-03-20T15:44:00.006-07:002013-03-20T18:18:57.864-07:00SECOND RESUME<div style="text-align: center;">
A second Dorothy Parker</div>
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I would rather like to be,</div>
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Yet I fear she would say,</div>
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"Go hang in a tree."</div>
Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-86618736856151425872013-03-20T15:04:00.001-07:002013-03-20T15:50:09.693-07:00RINGING IN SPRING WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spring has sprung;</div>
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See how they run!</div>
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Seize the day--calloo, callay!</div>
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The goat man whistles;</div>
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Follow through the thistles!</div>
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Pick a memory bouquet;</div>
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In the sun we'll make hay!</div>
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Gather up rosebuds!</div>
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O how the sap floods.</div>
Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-47425536486587136102013-03-19T10:15:00.000-07:002013-03-19T10:15:59.453-07:00Amongst Starfish on the ShoreA sounding board...more likely a sponge,<br />
Almost drowned bearing up<br />
Under the gravity of<br />
The venting of marooned Sirens<br />
Needing relief...<br />
What is the mouth of a sponge?<br />
It becomes a thing crusted <br />
With squamous salt<br />
If she finds herself washed ashore,<br />
Dried up and abandoned<br />
After reeling through the nebulae<br />
Of eddies and tides and jellyfish.Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-47581187652519269862013-02-07T07:43:00.000-08:002013-03-20T15:43:25.293-07:00WarningThe sky, layered in textured and roiling grays,<br />
Submerged a dull orange-red<br />
Into the morning's horizon of the lake and<br />
Gave background to water birds<br />
Perching high in February's bare trees.<br />
With necks hooked and silhouetted, <br />
They watched the clouds, <br />
Never seeming to notice <br />
A hawk as it flew by<br />
With a fish in its claws.<br />
The light, limited and superb, escaping<br />
The darkened clouds<br />
Polished the tree limbs shining and <br />
White as crooked bones beseeching the gods,<br />
Furnishing a stage <br />
For the sailors to watch<br />
The birds watching the thunder build.<br />
Cypress trees, void of fronds,<br />
Stood sentry nearby, stately and hard<br />
Against the next <br />
Harvest of turmoil.Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-748715782344537142013-01-23T11:00:00.001-08:002013-02-07T10:20:49.206-08:00lunch with pandora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Cat Stevens and Sweet Baby James and Beatles</div>
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of first love</div>
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of the rain and the fire</div>
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why was the golden-haired green-eyed one so beckoning to you?</div>
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why why why?</div>
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we could work it out</div>
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we thought then</div>
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how does a singer have the power</div>
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they're just songs</div>
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they were our life forces</div>
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blasting during the constant</div>
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circling of the streets rushing</div>
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for new love when actually we</div>
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after the mysteries of a new world</div>
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diminishing us as females</div>
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I love this house and these two cats and </div>
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the one who lights the fire</div>
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it's warmer here</div>
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but my pizza has gone cold yet the ice</div>
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has melted in my coke</div>
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<br />Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-82123857335699218102013-01-22T12:54:00.000-08:002013-03-20T15:45:09.234-07:00Can You Pray Then?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Worthy of sounding</div>
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Can you listen to the flowing of water,</div>
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Send compassion when reading a poem,</div>
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Wipe tears while gazing at a painting,</div>
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Stare into space when too stricken</div>
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Hold a stranger's hand</div>
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To help him stand--</div>
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Yet accomplish the asking for grace?</div>
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Can you summon a shield</div>
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And daily bread when you dance?</div>
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Can you pray while you dream?<br />
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Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-43038409100678739772013-01-19T09:43:00.000-08:002013-03-07T07:21:46.663-08:00THE ECHINATE STEMS OF ROSES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of what do they bespeak?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Willful heartache from submission<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Begat by promises of splendor <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fetching a rush of blood<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-20741664186693921442013-01-13T12:43:00.000-08:002013-01-19T09:52:30.308-08:00All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull BoyTriskaidekaphobia--<br />
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The hotel floor omitted--<br />
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Shining space of void<br />
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Which attempt to undermine vague fog?<br />
The coiling wind might divulge the secret of<br />
The winning claim. The wind’s might, with a <br />
Current of change, calls latent valor against <br />
The strength of mystery.<br />
It stirs hibernation, forcing it to grow<br />
Weary. It stirs attempts of hoary laughter at <br />
A false spring smothered. It calls forth<br />
Rain to revive and cleanse. It calls forth <br />
Snow to blanket more sleep. It clears<br />
The path for Helios in his shining chariot.<br />
The wind, ambiguous to the eye that peers<br />
Out the window, seizes <br />
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A death is a planting.</div>
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The tax man, ambitious was he.<br />
Forgiven he was, yet quite wee.<br />
We can all do as amply <br />
As the man in the tree--<br />
Above all, to forgive thine and thee.<br />
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An adultress was posed for her sin<br />
As was Jesus in a ploy, but he then<br />
Inscribed in the grime <br />
And suggested in time<br />
To cast stones at not what they'd been.<br />
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A leper the Teacher did heal,<br />
The odious who'd been yet concealed.<br />
He begged with appeal<br />
For his censure's repeal:<br />
His sure faith the dear Lord could feel.<br />
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A panicked, feared man was possessed<br />
With demons that Christ did address.<br />
The Legion of greed <br />
Did plead to proceed<br />
Into pigs but were drowned as their guests.<br />
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He requested we pray not in grandiose ways<br />
For the nourishment of our bodies' long days.<br />
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A tongue like</div>
Two left feet--<br />
A mouth like<br />
Two left thumbs--<br />
The teacher can't<br />
Help but talk<br />
Like a teenager--<br />
Like she can't<br />
Spit out a sophisticated<br />
Sentence in a cool group<br />
Of adults, so she sits shyly by,<br />
Chewing on a pencil,<br />
But like--but give her<br />
Hands a blank slate<br />
And she can wield her<br />
Way prolifically,<br />
Yet economically,<br />
Through diatribes<br />
As wisely asserted declarations<br />
Charge down her arms,<br />
Heated by her blood,<br />
Articulated by her fingertips,<br />
Urbane, complex, and critically considered,<br />
Clearing the metaphorical room of debaters--<br />
But why would she want them <br />
To leave?<br />
She doesn't.Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-21839769537174349962013-01-03T08:42:00.003-08:002013-03-07T07:13:59.696-08:00SYNTAX<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nothing pithy to say,</div>
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No revelations held,</div>
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Nothing even for therapy.</div>
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I'll just watch the leaves</div>
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shiver on emptying limbs</div>
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misplaced modifier aside.</div>
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Yet the day cries one word:</div>
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"Hallelujah!"</div>
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<em>(Thank you to high school English class buddy Mike Barnes for the inspiration. Miss Stella would be proud of our collaboration.)</em><br />
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The mirror of wrinkles<br />
And bending form,<br />
The smoke of graying hair<br />
Startle the years<br />
And race them closer to<br />
Their end.<br />
What will be left to her<br />
But what the feeble have:<br />
A weakened mind and<br />
Woeful eyes--bewilderment?<br />
Confusion assails these interim years<br />
As composure and creation reel into<br />
A crevasse, the rumored<br />
Drowning vortex--<br />
As life becoms uncharted,<br />
Spinning mercilessly between the<br />
Tumultuous swirling<br />
And the rocks on the shore<br />
That can no longer<br />
Be trusted...<br />
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But then the reader considers,<br />
Raising her eyes from the text:<br />
"They also serve who stand and wait."Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-32095532520733112712012-11-25T11:26:00.001-08:002012-11-25T17:21:29.422-08:00Harmony, Two Cats, Two Vases<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Enchantment
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Golden
enough? You didn’t want<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">To
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ours? Would life <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Have been
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Hard?
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Brought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">To<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(except
for just one minute).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Yesterday,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">But I
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">I woke up at 5:00,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">hopped up out of bed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Most unlike me, I
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">always loll an hour
instead...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">jumped into my
jeans, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">my black shirt and shawl--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">then upset my style<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">with white tennies
for the mall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">No time for coffee:
Diet Coke had to do--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">along with the tranq,
so no problems would ensue...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">hopped into the car
with daughter at the wheel:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Her coupons and plans
were making her reel:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">"Where's
Kohl's?" she inquired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">"I don't
know," I replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">"You live here;
I don't," she came back,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">so I thought and I
tried<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">to picture the store
where I'd just seen it last,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">and, lo and behold,
the great Kohl's had held fast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">on Loop 12 at
Skillman--with Target next door;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">nothing could be
easier when shopping for more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">The crowd: It was lulling
post the madness of 3:00.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Most were at coffee
or a donut reprieve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">We bought toys
galore--and I want to keep them, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">but I'll wrap them up brightly </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">With bows meant to hide them:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">A Pink V-Dub with
Barbie and trucks that make noise,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">pajamas and books for
the girls and the boys,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">DVDs for my Laura, a
little something for my man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">When I realized I'd
had all the fun I could stand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">we came home for
breakfast with </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">hot chocolate to mend-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">and to top it all off, a little whipped cream!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Laura has recharged,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">and I sit here and
wonder, "Was all that a dream?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Now she's whisked off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cousin and aunt,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">but I'm opting to sit
with the fire, dogs, and cat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><strong>26 November 2010<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<br />Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-11394329813958801592012-11-09T16:54:00.001-08:002013-03-07T07:28:14.974-08:00A Hero Rides Away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A choreography of a higher power,<br />
A documentary of love, will remain in the blinded minds<br />
And heavy hearts—a mystery<br />
Of falling golden leaves, twirling through blue omnipotence<br />
Down to the earth to rest at the limited feet<br />
Which later trudge to watch the fallen hero<br />
Lie still at last—after he takes his final ride.<br />
Tears streak and imprison stricken faces<br />
Yet liberate for a while the pent-up<br />
Anguish felt not only for today’s hero<br />
But for the heroes gone away during<br />
Their yesterdays.<br />
Accumulation of love and fear and<br />
Misunderstanding and acceptance<br />
And loss bind neighbors and strangers<br />
As one with just a glimpse of Heaven<br />
As they try to save the moment<br />
Yet wish they could forget this elimination,<br />
Forget this presence of tragedy.<br />
Young men with faces dappling red cry and <br />
Struggle with carrying<br />
The weight of one who will never hold <br />
Such gravity in their lives again.<br />
They become little boys again:<br />
With such metamorphoses, why cannot they also summon their hero <br />
To ride next to them again<br />
Rather than be borne by the amassed strength<br />
That they have gained under his guidance?<br />
The blue and golden day bears<br />
The sorrowful and laden hearts for the wife, the neighbors, the strangers,<br />
The mothers, the fathers, the sisters, the brothers,<br />
The sons, the daughters—and those boys— who<br />
Cannot bear to carry them with their<br />
Own endurance because knowledge of<br />
How to endure escapes them.<br />
Yet they do not need command of this mystery today:<br />
The beautiful day holds and caresses them<br />
As it sways them in the cradle of<br />
The lightness of the breeze <br />
Which causes the leaves to fall.<br />
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9 November 2012Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-85210027960703882812012-10-17T07:47:00.002-07:002012-10-17T07:49:07.393-07:00Water<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">loquacious--<br />
Were it intubatious<br />
I could breathe it--<br />
In water I can fly--<br />
the only place I can fly--<br />
except in my dreams where<br />
through the air I can fly.<br />
Water and air </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wish could be one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">in the far and dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">reaches of the night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the little girl pondered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">how in the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Heaven, actually)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">she would keep herself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">occupied for eternity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">after the demise...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">all she could come up with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">was to eat popcorn at the movies</span></div>
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coots float in blue sky</div>
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<br />Deborah Lightfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042885743436884219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430151832351736392.post-77985350156845954482012-09-04T18:46:00.003-07:002012-10-15T16:35:01.770-07:00Aquarius, We Hope<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We dawned the age of
Aquarius<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">back in 1969.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some never heard the
words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">which blast away
still today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and bounce back and
forth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ricocheting around
the interior of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">a New Beetle--from an
iPod.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No one outside can<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">hear it but me. The
others on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the freeway absorb
their own messages<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">from their own
programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How cacophonous we've
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What did cacophony
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">except to warn us in
a movie that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">something bad was
about to happen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But we pound on down
the highway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">as if ZZ Top were dying tomorrow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And yet I remember a
herald of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">cacophonous cathedral
bells<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">which scattered doves
to flight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Aquarius, we hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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