Love poems
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Why Do We Labor
© Gary R. Ferris
Is it for riches that leave us scared?
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What makes us rise and begin each day?
I Almost Held Your Hand Today
© Gary R. Ferris
And saw stars around the top.
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I wanted so much to tell you,
A Love Still Waiting
© Gary R. Ferris
And they will strike your new love down.
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You know down deep you love me,
A Pleading Cry
© Gary R. Ferris
But things arent like theyre told.
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You say youve found what you wanted,
Boo Boo
© Gary R. Ferris
So put away your toys, and have a seat;
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Boo Boo, Boo Boo, the love that we share,
The Maid's Thought
© Robinson Jeffers
Why listen, even the water is sobbing for something.
The west wind is dead, the waves
Forget to hate the cliff, in the upland canyons
Whole hillsides burst aglow
The Bird With The Dark Plumes
© Robinson Jeffers
The bird with the dark plumes in my blood,
That never for one moment however I patched my truces
Consented to make peace with the people,
It is pitiful now to watch her pleasure In a breath of
Tor House
© Robinson Jeffers
If you should look for this place after a handful
of lifetimes:
Perhaps of my planted forest a few
May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast
Sign-Post
© Robinson Jeffers
Civilized, crying: how to be human again; this will tell you how.
Turn outward, love things, not men, turn right away from humanity,
Let that doll lie. Consider if you like how the lilies grow,
Lean on the silent rock until you feel its divinity
