Michael Eugene Cantrall

Time is never taken,
Time is only given.
And only given those
Can hear devil’s laughter
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Sun shines for you, Mom
Happy skies are your blue eyes
Stars twinkle for you
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Still warm here tonight
Crickets cheer
Indian Summer
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Shallow pond, beware!
The scorch of summer's sun blast
Poof! Behold! A cloud!
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To survive this world
You must know only one thing
She whispered to me in a dream
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The ancient oaks sleep
Shadows make their plans tonight
The great-horned owl winks
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A million ants march
Up a giant redwood tall
Stellar blue jays snack
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No sovereign inventor required to awaken
A chosen world's fire bound within
And unleash stowed magical benefit
Stirred by echoes of past life?
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Mist in this chamber
waiting for release
Truth parked still below
faith reposed in peace
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At four, a salute in uniform
adventure leads
his way
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Something seeking causation
Unseen stalking salvation
Strong hungering foundation
Not knowing abdication
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And peace be with you, too,
My Friend
And let us say this day
We end
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A nurse enters the examination room
and smiles evaporate dark clouds above
and attending shadows dismiss submerged sadness
and within this universe, she's five years free
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I know who I am, I am a snowman
that I am, and I am what I am
and I am a snowman, I am
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Bright Star
Your star shines bright
and can blind those
whom have trouble
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Living on the edge of worry
tears are not a sign
my stare will always bind us
forever locked in mine
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Well, this is quite beyond comprehension
I slipped into soft sleep and awoke here
After hours, in Abbey House Gallery
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I walk within this midnight garden bloom
Where purple petals trance in silver light,
And the jewel'd vines wrapt round the rusting gate
Share sweet jasmin'd incense with twilight near.
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Alone she dances through this desert
With no direction, just a promise
The bitter waters yield no comfort
Drifting dunes whisper blame
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