Poetry: Human understanding - by John Dreyer

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by John Dreyer

Created on: February 08, 2007 Last Updated: May 14, 2007

ONLY MARRIED

Next door dogs
bark for sake of carping,
in fits and starts,
yips and yaps,
going nowhere
in a hurry
saying nothing,
conveying worry,
spouses who leaped short of love
and landed only married:
a house, a yard, a pedigree,
an iron fence with filigree,
a boy, a girl,
a social whirl,
expensive wine
but no bouquet.
No wonder they bark
the whole long day.

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So Mordecai, he did so fall beneath the rising sun
Said unto Edmund "One is all and, therefore, all is one"

The two, those
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Wonder
I wonder where the wonder goes
As we start to grow.
I wonder where the wonder goes.
I wonder. Do you know?
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THE NEXT SUNRISE

The morning mist is clearing now

And the deer are on the move.

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Dignity.

Or

False pretense?

I fall under your spell.

Trying to find my place in this world

of happiness and chaos.
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I Understand Now

My Uncle Charlie use to scare me when I was young.
He had such a deep voice, where did it come from?
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