Poems on the topic: friend

Poems on the topic “friend” on Poets.by.

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Dave Bonta

Fortunes

i put a single stem of beebalm – bright red shaggy head – in a green, wide- bottomed wine bottle & set it outside to see if the hummingbirds would come the first summer crickets playing their rasps pick right up where they left off at the intermission, going on as if this brief stage
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SadDave Bonta

Folded

paper heart my wife and I heavy for the loss of our friend
SadDave Bonta

Peregrine

a falcon just dead it and the rain raw as parted friends
CheerfulDave Bonta

Pride goeth

an urge to clap but not to give a hand to serve but never to service like the woods we fell familiar as any friend
CheerfulDave Bonta

Toughs

Arm in arm go my sword and pistol and walk up and down full of mischief as if they are friends or fearful to be alone.
SadDave Bonta

Belated Christmas letter

This year, trouble settled in with me, and I mourn the dying of tongues and ordinary doors. Time is no old token. I have lost friends and a calf’s head at cards.
AnxiousDave Bonta

Fear of a white planet

my old friend my old acquaintance my strange table the sea is white as ice
SadDave Bonta

The art of parting

My friend and I, we part, painters painting stairs to the night all night.
SadDave Bonta

Old soldier

I miss the war. All the officers and friends of my past sang songs and then went away. And night came to wash me clean.
CheerfulDave Bonta

Immortals of the Wine Cup

A red-faced divinity, the fool who won a quart of sack. He and I talk beauty till we’re both angry, then walk in the fields.
SadDave Bonta

Homeless

I bury a friend at the green bone of the day. I think myself one without a bed.
ContemplativeDave Bonta

Against Nature

All the assistance I could expect: the sound of an evening, a large desire for my old friend, the world. Nature is the first lie since coming from sea.

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