Love Notes

Trains make me sad

Trains make me sad    i cried
unaware of the lie
for the tracks run straight to your door
and i am there before the train
can leave the station

©Laurie Ashton, mcmlxi
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Beauty is ...

Beauty is in the sigh of the beholder

©Laurie Ashton, mmv
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Same ol' story

Same ol' story
candle sure don't shine
wax iz burnin' low
waitin' fr that man
scared since he iz mine
'fraid to let him go

©Laurie Ashton, mmv
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When i go to the Wars

When i go to the Wars
i shall go hence
as if subject to Mars
yet Venus or Aphrodite
she, your resemblance
will be

©Laurie Ashton, mmv
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A thousand words

A thousand words
or a thousand days
nearer to expressing    his heart's devoir
the unbidden lover
languishes behind a shut door

©Laurie Ashton, mmv
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Dead grass

Dead grass    the farmer said
   they eat dead grass
as i wondered what the cows did
out there in the spare sunlight
of the frosty meadow
   the wiser i watched them ambling across the turf
and i felt sorry for the cows
with nothing to do a hurdle on their necks
as if i too were a cropper of dead grass
in a bare pasture waiting to be led back to a warm barn
and fed

©Laurie Ashton, mcmlxi
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