Noreen Carden

A heart can break without a sound.
A tear can fall to hit the ground.
No one standing near can tell.
There's not a sign to break the spell.
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Grey wispy hair pokes through her hat
Waddling homeward on worn down heels
Carrying bags that hit and bump
on legs as they hurry through city streets
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I am born.
My own clean sheet.
My road in life is incomplete.
I start my journey baby steps
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Thunderous noises screaming guns.
Fires raging evil done.
Abject terror written plain.
On baby faces For shame. For shame.
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Harvest moon hanging high
Watching us Gods ancient eye
Poets write you distant cold
While i observe your core
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The wire you ordered came today.
I stacked it by the garden gate.
Standing under the arc of a rainbow.
In your big raincoat snuggled safe.
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I go deep to search your eyes.
Icy cold is what I see.
I reach out in search of love.
Indifference touches me.
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Rosie walks down by the river bank flowers in her hair,
Stars in her eyes
She dreams of the day that will soon come to pass
A sweet secret she held in her heart
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Black day when ice formed round her heart.
Black day when they were forced to part.
Her anger made her rail at God.
What did she do that was so bad.
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With head bent low he watches her go,
bravely facing a world she does not know
He smiles goodbye and covers up his tears
for he must be brave if she looks back in fear.
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Walking in the starry darkness.
I seek a quiet place of peace.
Breath blows white against the air.
Mind searches a forgotten prayer.
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Reach out your hand to me my love
and bid me walk with you awhile
Along this sandy moonlit shore.
Where i walked once a child
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Deep into the night she awakes sensing his presence
A quiet pensive aura about him
She is aware of his confusion at being in unfamiliar surroundings
lost in a world of strange sights and sounds
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On the night of the star,
gifts lain at his feet.
He comes into being.
Annunciation complete.
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He flew in with the first days of summer
His black wings shone.
His beautiful notes filled
my day with sweetness.
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A playground whisper is going around.
Don't play with him.
As he's pushed to the ground.
Now he stands on the outskirts,
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Dawn sky, watery blue streaked red and gold,
by the hand of God.
Mountain ranges like humpbacked somnolent dinosaurs
Left behind from a long forgotten age.
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and when the dark day comes
without invitation, the pain
lies thick around his heart.
Slowing its beat until it is
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She walks the shore.
While tears flow free.
She wonders if the waves can see.
Do they know this truth profound
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While walking down a country lane,
i felt my soul pulled back in time.
Surrounded by the ancient ones,
whose lives long spent had entered mine.
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