Loving You from Far Away
Passing on As I look up, you look down, but our love still shines bright As it meets in one place From there it lights up the night sky Moonlit love Moving As the night...
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Poetry and verse from young voices
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Passing on
As I look up, you look down, but our love still shines bright
As it meets in one place
From there it lights up the night sky
Moonlit love
Moving
As the night chirps
I send my love to you
For you also used to hear this jolly nighttime song
But now I listen alone
You, very far away.
First breath
Cold air, gleaming lights
I do not understand this world
I do not know sometimes it is cold
Sometimes I must fight alone
Parents and family protect me
I am different but cannot understand why
Things happen bad and good
A brother comes
I want to protect him with all my strength
Care for him with all my love
We bicker and fight
But still I protect him
I cannot understand people, emotion...
Gliding through the water
As swift and silent as an arrow
With the swish swish splash of the paddle.
Water burbling over smooth stones, singing over sticks,
Jumbling in a happy mass to wherever rivers go.
The blue blue sky overhead, clear as crystal,
Dotted here and there with wisps of milk-white clouds.
A gentle breeze, ruffling the water, making ripples.
Tousling my hair with invisible fingers.
One day we were riding in the car
Talking about his work
He speaks so deeply about everything
Has a philosophical point of view.
Talks to me like an adult
As if I understand
The amount of wood needed to construct a frame
And how business works.
Nonetheless, I listen
And do so very intently
For I love to hear the sound of his words that are not only
Soft and gentle and beautiful
But have lessons ...
In a comic explosion of feathers,
the hens race to the safety of a compost pile.
I wave a dirty dish rag after them, a warning not to get
too close
to our first outside dinner of the year.
They start to creep forward,
combs waving,
lured by the plates of food we are bringing out.
I go to drastic measures, throwing the towel in their midst.
Today I went to a man who had some sheep
and I looked at one
and it was a magic sheep
and it had wings,
and the man said this was a very
precious sheep
so when my mom and dad
and the man who owned the sheep
were looking at a different one
I got on, just to see if it would carry me off
and then it went with its little legs outside
and flew up to heaven
and then i...
I want make it be dark
I want it way, way, way dark.
I gonna get bigger, bigger
and the whole world gonna shine
and I gonna be the sun
and there be lines on me
not any head, not any bottom.
I be a face
and I be the dark
and I be the light
and I be the shining
and I be the sun
and shine the people
and they say, there's the sun max,
make the big bird,
and...