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Ada had to admit that, at least now and again, just saying what your heart felt, straight and simple and unguarded, could be more useful than four thousand lines of John Keats. She had never been able to do it in her whole life, but she thought she would like to learn how. -- Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain |
| Contents | |
| Why | |
| Heaven's Answer Room | |
| Needing You | |
| Squadrons at Dusk | |
| Bookcase | |
| Two for a Longtimeloverfriend | |
| Can't Sleep | |
| Very, very short poems: | |
| Neighbors | |
| Hatred | |
| Youth | |
| Moss | |
| Whales | |
| Hale-Bopp | |
Why A poem for Marge and Tom Reed I stand in the wind and see I search for answers I obsess over why And still October 6, 1997 |
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If there is a Heaven There will be an Answer Room Where my cat goes each day -- Lehua, December 12, 1997 |
| Squadrons at Dusk | ||
Glancing neither right nor left Staunchly focussed squadrons glide Streams of skillful warriors Calmly unaffected by Without a care but to insure The pelicans are back !!!! | ||
| -- Lehua, 6/10/98 | ||
BOOKCASE | |||
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Today I am an old, creaky bookcase A low-end bookcase My middle sags Every sort of book I am disorganized Badly crafted joints | |||
| -- Lehua, March '98 | |||
| I | ||||
I watched you walking home last night | ||||
| II | ||||
I know you so well I've loved you so long |
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| -- Lehua, 10/26/98 | ||||
| Can't Sleep | ||
| Can't sleep! | ||
| Restless images are racing through my head | ||
| Can't sleep! | ||
| Smoking, fevered longings heating up my bed | ||
| Can't sleep! | ||
| Wanting, hoping, yearning, needing what's ahead | ||
| Can't sleep - awake! alive! on fire! | ||
| Can't sleep - my need/your heat conspire | ||
| Can't sleep - can't fight with my desire | ||
| Can't sleep! | ||
| -- Lehua, 5/24/87, 3:00 a.m. | ||
| Some Very, Very Short Poems |
The wind and the sea are having a loud argument. They're normally such nice neighbors. -- November 18, 1997 |
| Hatred earns hatred | |
| -- Lehua, 6/9/98 | |
| I was young once. | |
| That is... SO... EMBARRASSING!! | |
| -- Lehua, 4/3/98 | |
| Moss enchants me. | |
| -- Lehua, 5/30/98 | |
| Whales are so improbable | |
| -- Lehua, 8/9/98 | |
| Written after watching the biggest pod of whales I'd ever seen in my life playing in my "backyard" for several hours | |
| I miss the comet It made me think of bigger things | |
| -- Lehua, 10/20/98 | |
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