A cold autumn's night

Sink deep in their yellow skins, autumn steams on.
Spent memory will depart, so will my youth.
My new steps flow in tautness, oh, so restive.
Life’s beats swayed its frosty chants, mine swathed along.

Stilled water in frozen pond, glommed for truth and warmth.
Once summer olden dream returns, haste on her way.
Across the old pond, the kind bell shaded cold wind.
Small passions for now, soon mint snow sprinkles fresh hopes.

Soaked deep in their orange skins, autumn will soon end.
Swilled of heavy angst, hovered thoughts, hard-nosed firmed breath.
I sat in dense silence, then hummed a hearty prayer.
Graduation is anon, tomorrow shall bond.

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An echo for a novel dream

Holding a loss with great esteem
He lay asleep with old shadows
Circumvent not, new waken dream

Beneath the sun there lay a bream
Too much ardor for faithful ones
Holding a loss with great esteem

Once blue, now frozen stood a stream
A love withdrew when fall was young
Circumvent not, new waken dream

Each pebble thrown, love was the theme
All was the same, his morning breaths
Holding a loss with great esteem

Two souls conjoined, he was the seam
Her hasty fleet fluttered the wind
Circumvent not, new waken dream

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Oscar The Dog

Oscar the dog, white and fluffy.
He told people that one day in
February during a snow storm when
Everyone stayed in their houses while
He went outside chasing the snow and
Caught them all, “Sometimes what you catch
(like an over-affectionate boyfriend or girlfriend)
never leaves you”, Said Oscar the dog.

From a straight-male’s perspective, if you learn
To kiss a woman like Oscar the dog,
She’ll definitely leave you and she will run over mountains
to Niagara Falls for a shower.
But if you learn to kiss a man
Like Oscar the dog, you’ll make the people
In the gay parade proud.

One can learn much from Oscar the dog
Especially during a party. He will amble around
The room sweeping away half-finished salads,

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