Astonishing. Wear your love like sunshine, proud mother.
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Frank Parker
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>From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Alison Croggon
>Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:51 PM
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>Subject: Zoe's poem
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>Apologies for the proud mother bit, but I have to share this poem,
>which my 12 year old daughter Zoe has written over the past couple of
>days. My only contribution was to fix up the spelling.
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>I think it shows all the excess of a true poet :)
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>A
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>1
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>A creamier milk froths up the famished dust
>The shrouded silver moon gathers the last shards of heaven's night jewels
>The pine tree sews ever more needles upon its bough of musk
>Life puts on her thimble and knits up the rusty causes of oily blood pools
>Her pleated blue dress hisses the language of silence
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>2
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>Salty tears of loneliness wobble then rush down her slender plum cheek
>Quenching the thirst of crisp barren wilderness beaten by her gaze
>A glint of eagle circling the red mountain he sings with his broken beak
>He sings tongues of silence, eagles share her ways
>His song is somehow different its flowers are pressed on violence
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>3
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>A thickly buttered moon hangs from midnight milk
>Patterned drumbeats are heard from the village
>His grey pads beat upon her dress uttering silent silk
>Rumours via Indians grow of wolves from the east foliage
>The sky is her canvas in which she studs his audience burning in a creek
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>4
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>His dappled hair flaps and his silver ruff unravels in the breeze
>The rough pads of his paws lie still on the melting stone
>His song eases my pain, the jarred sound softens the tease
>In his wild company I am never completely alone
>Yet how can I be happy when an ocean is hanging off my cheek?
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