April 25th, 2009 by Linda Jenkinson
You,
In benign blessing smiled down on me,
Gave me all I crave.
Then came with evil grin
Slashed and rendered all you gave.
You
Laid waste to life and mocked the dream,
Laughed at fidelity.
Drawn and quartered
In gray pallor of reality.
You
Set me high upon a silver cloud.
Lining blocked the smog
Until, illusion revealed,
The cloud was endless fog.
I fell.
My deafening screams
Resounded in the echo of your jest.
A pervasive howling
In the deepening mist.
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April 20th, 2009 by Linda Jenkinson
You gave me the chance
To read a page
I’d never read before
You beckoned me to dance
With feet that barely
Touched the floor.
You opened worlds of fantasy
Where I shared life with fairies,
In realms of Lords and Kings;
But the tale was written for a child
And when I sprouted woman’s wings
You closed the book
And bade me take my leave,
Whilst you went on to other things.
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April 11th, 2009 by Linda Jenkinson
As the sun shone bright behind me
The girl that I had been
Appeared in slender shadow
As I walked westward home.
Passing by a window
I marveled at the difference
The stocky, shrunken figure
That the girl had now become.
As the day ages
So do I
Sun moves past me
Bright and high
Until the shrinking shadow
Almost disappears
As did the girl whose girlish dreams
Shrink through the passing years.
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