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Created on: August 01, 2008
Leaves
I like the midnight world
Gold shadows unfurled
And darting footsteps turn slow.
I wander in wakeful dream
Things aren't what they seem
And there's secrets here to know.
Leaves tumble in tawny
Mountains
Toss them up to make topaz
Fountains
My starry heart does show.
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