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have your tractor days gone?
perhaps,
my love,
they have just begun.
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on the final days of poetry
the words will come undone,
their letters dropped upon the ground
firstone by one by one.
then soon the streets will c..
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countless and pure,
it settles lightly
from the morning mist
and lays upon your heart.
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is what it's called,
did you know?
i most certainly did not.
for had i known,
i would have known,
and that is most simply
a fact.
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for were we to meet
as sleep reaches to my eyes,
i would take her hand
and whisper quietly to her heart.
we would have all that we wanted.
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i bottled up what i could find,
but my heart is on my sleeve.
where have you gone, dear friend,
and when did you go?
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each cherished.
each learned.
each one a part of me
and who i have become.
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i have failed.
i have felt saddness
so deep that i knew nothing else.
i have seen my dreams grow
and then watchedthem fade away
beyond my control..
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in the time it takes you
to read this poem,
you will have read
twentywords
(not counting the title).
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as we sat on thepark bench
amid a warm summer's day,
mr. ackenheil paused
and looked up to the sky.
"it's pleasant today,
but just you wait
unti..
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