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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
Signed to my Sister
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


Some say life is but a cherry,
Some say it's but nothing at all.
Some find life in all that's buried,
Others hang them on the wall.

All the rooms which we have walked through,
All the halls where we do stall
Count the times that we did run through,
Count the times when we had to fall.

And the way that we are merry,
And the way we forgot to share
All those play toys on the ferry,
All the ones left at the fair.

They say the soul is pure in constance,
Others speak but get nowhere.
Others say there is no such constance,
Others speak but get no wear.

But I'm sure there is a pathway
Leading from here up to the stars.
But I'll wonder when we're halfway,
What of all the wasteful scars?

All those people who dreamed of wonders,
All those who dreamed at all-
Some have lived only in blunder,
Others lived not at all.

And the scars which man does carry,
When they're laid down at last-
Will one face reflect the marry
Of the present to the past?