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green winter giants (poem)

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green winter giants

arms reach out in silent plea

weighed down with wet snow.

 

Cindy 2013

Dancing on the Ice

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gliding on  ice with the grace of ballet dancers

twirling and floating in perfect timing

with  unbridled passion like first-time lovers

shaving trails in ice with powerful strokes

around the rink the best of figure skaters

tracing history with magnificent ice dancing.

 

© Cindy Lapeña, 2014, Charlottetown

 

i don’t know how to say goodbye…

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frankly, i don’t even remember how it happened…
how it ended, that is….
it’s all a blur to me now…
you know how messed up i was then…
i don’t think i ever said goodbye to anyone…
just slipped away into something else or somewhere else…
like water slipping through your hands…
never becoming attached…
i don’t think i ever let myself get attached…
to anything…
to anyone…
too much…
because i didn’t know how…
maybe didn’t want to know how…
to get attached…
so i wouldn’t have to say goodbye…

what the new year brings

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nice and bright

new year, new light

new thoughts, new themes

looking forward to

what the new year brings.

 

– Charlottetown, 2014

Oh no. Vertigo.

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oh no. vertigo.
woozy all day and all night
nothing’s feeling right.
not the kind of poem i’d write
no epiphanies in sight.
-2014, Charlottetown

My vigil is done

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The night is long
My vigil done.
Done the songs
The mourners gone
In marble urn
Her frailty burned
Her spirit flown
To worlds unknown.

-2013, Charlottetown

i hitched my dream… (poem)

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i hitched my dream to a falling star

and like the star it didn’t go far

i hitched my dream to a growing tree

it grew so tall but was not free

i hitched my dream to a free wild bird

it soared up high but was not heard

i freed my dream, let loose its reins

it shouts, it soars, it grows without restraint.

 

© Cindy Lapeña, 2013

Just another weekend (poem)

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it’s a Friday night and i’m sitting at home

i’m watching TV but there’s nothing much on

i’m trying to write yet another poem

if the words don’t flow, then to bed i’ll be gone.

 

© Cindy Lapeña, 2013

Charlottetown

Governments (poem)

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I think that I shall never see

A government that is tax free

A senator that never lies

or rumours on their own that die

A government that lends a hand

and writes your debts in flowing sand

A government with open arms

and wishes all the earth no harm

with politicians who are wise

or act upon the people’s cries

A dreamer like me always wishes

for a nation free of issues.

 

© Cindy Lapeña, 2013

Charlottetown

Summer rain (poem)

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welcome the summer rain that battles the heat

hesitant and uncertain

it drops like a spray in spurts then gushes then spurts

sorry raindrops cooling down the air somewhat

but not enough to soak the ground.

 

©  Cindy Lapeña

2013