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From: charles@uw70 (Bad Charles)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Semi-black poem
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 12:03:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 12:03:27 1985
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>From noson Tue Mar 12 15:21:25 1985

I have to believe
A warm breath of Spring
Will thaw the frost
>From the coldest of rings

An illusion perhaps
That will someday be lost
A heart turned to stone
A total loss?

A surgeon or artist
May the damage repair
Make magic appear
>From the thinnest of air?

Tears flow in the memories
Of life's softer hours
When love seemed so easy
Like weeds among flowers.

Now careful tending
Brings not a bloom
The heartiest of flowers
Looks wilted and doomed.

The garden I failed
Was supposed to feed four
Three hungry faces
Stare in at my door.

So, I have to believe
in the warm breath of Spring
Or watch them all starve
On the ice that I bring.