Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.  ~Malagasy Proverb
 

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I  am days late with  my words, but they are always in my heart, if not on the page.   Even if you can hear them unspoken, I would rather you drift on soft words and endless love.

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Somewhere I Have Never Traveled

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her [...]

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A Birthday

Y heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
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