Poetry: She was just gone

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by Larry Powers

Created on: August 25, 2009

Whirlwinds

Like whirlwinds on the Kansas plain
emotions are swiftly swirling;
my feelings tossed like tumbleweeds,
bashing into barbed-wire fences.

A twister came twirling, whirring
like whirlwinds on the Kansas plain;
'twas a tornado, day after day,
spinning words of poetic grace.

Blue skies faded to yellow dusk;
I listened for her voice to echo
like whirlwinds on the Kansas plain
But all was quiet, she was gone.

Of mornings, when the sun rises
over the hills of Tennessee,
I wait, knowing she will come back
like whirlwinds on the Kansas plain.

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by David Braybrooke

She was just gone ... back to the beat in fishnets and glows
Running on empty with whiskey-ed up smack
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She was an ethereal flow'r I finally found,
but when I raised my head to thank heaven above,
she slowly withered to the ground.
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emotions are swiftly swirling;
my feelings tossed like tumbleweeds,
bashing into
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She was just gone.

My mother left me with a key,
She didn't really think of me,
Or stop to think upon,
The thought that I
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Remembering vividly the look on her face,
Every look and any look that she gave.
Remembering how she smelt as she passed by,

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