R. H. Peat Poems

In The Chinese Restaurant

Before the meal,
water and green tea are served.
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Forgotten Embroidery (Form: A Stichic)

Your blouse—I have it
right here
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A Shoe Beside The Bed

All night long
with a film on the sills
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Your spirit holds me near in lift and fall
it takes my breath away with each embrace;
In laughing wind and graceful sky we dance
and I'm a clumsy bear within the fog.
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Every Moment Touches

The westward daisies remember the little boy;
he stands by the flaking side of the tan house
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A Smiling Star

She says she sees a smiling star inside
the canopy of tangled trees, and I
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Perfection

Every oak will lose a leaf to the wind.
Every star-thistle has a thorn.
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Crows In the Snow

All day around this slim wooden box
they have slowly gathered like frail
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Flying Fingers (Ode to the Guitarist)

Soft sounds written in naked sky,
the alphabets of beetles, tiger moths, and
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The Note
There is a longing in her remote look
remembering the taste of raspberries,
ripened and red upon her wet tongue.
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