030410 Teasing My Mind
i can't keep
but notice
those two twins
teasing my mind
those lines are
getting lower and lower
sometimes i'm tempted
to tug at laces and look
what's there for me
but you keep my hands
together with your
shopping bags
poem by Manonton Dalan

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A Hand
First Love's Touch,
mutual gathering was only through them,
our Hands.
We poets celebrate
Hearts and Souls;
Love too wields magic,
but neglect too often
those stalwart two-
the human hands-
we're birth'd with.
Entwined most
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in the Pantheon of Graces
a position lower than should be.
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is a touching hand.
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then
we are lifted by them.
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first with these twins?
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first touched by them?
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which fluttered dismissively
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for nurse, loved ones
or darlings,
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my two hands crossing.
I am touched by loving hands
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to Death's Regarding.
All my life these two ambassadors
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sweet touches
to me and from me
to others.
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is reached by these
and Child Worlds mended.
Lover, I
have only these
to express what
what my Heart says
Love Is.
In the end
cry for them too:
Fluttering Twins,
unsung,
ungraced,
each hand-
perforce
will reach out
one to each-
one floating flower to another.
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Shopping
Were buying and selling your history
How we go about it is no mystery
We check it with the city, then change the law
Are you looking forward?
Now you want some more
Were s-h-o-pp-i-n-g, were shopping
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Were shopping
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