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Silverfish

Silverfish

No Price

The sanctity of one’s love for another
Holds only the price of worth
To call it true; no credit in the world
Would be enough to pry your arms apart
One’s eyes shade pink; forgotten green
Life is rich enough without

(2013)

Other works by Silverfish...
Modest Man's Ode

Sunset streaks across black sky Reflects the Earth kept in your e… And like the gems held underground… The beauty inside keeps me digging… Oh angel walking in our world;
Identity

Tomorrow, Everything’s all out of the place,… Could you look in my head; pull a… And through my eye, Give it a name, a how and a why?
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Morning Star

You’re the sunshine that I wake t… And all the good towards my mornin… You’re that arrow Cupid sends to… And leave me love struck without w… When I’m daydreaming, it’s a movi…
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Darling; Sweet Thing

Sweet dreams and nightmares Alternate through the night Your familiar face features Something I’d never let go Waking unwanted,
Drift

When you saw the ghost across the… Did it look human at all; Or was it all your hopes that died… Left to linger in the house Where starving dreams still lie?
 1
For the Like-Minded

Happiness, for some Doesn’t happen without struggle; a well-used and worn machine kept cycling, through work and luc… does that make it an illusion?
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Fishies

If there’s always other fishes Swimming in the sea What consolation is there In seeking to marry? If something so much better
 5
Staring Down Defeat

Stubborn, love is blind Charging forward like a bull Staring down defeat Crying at the real Shattered is the shielded soul
Rosebuds and Lavender

A warming pervasion In the night and your head Sends you slipping through the hal… And leads you back to the bed. Your garden in twilight;
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The Great What-If

Ladies, and the gentler soul; give the floor to The Great What… Fill your sure with uncertainty; I could twist your every wish. Tugging at your collar bone,
Floating Down the River

Slip it in the boat, to creek; Push away the ground from under the nervous dance of feet. Could be drowning, could be relief… I feel the flow of current
Welcome Comfort

Should I see the world behind you… And all the secrets put aside In deep caverns, behind city wall… Left to memory, or whatever cause The future holds in store for you;
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Hymnal

“Walk in the light of His Word” The ladies say with the hallowed echoes of their… “Trust and obey” What wonders they perform
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Interesting Story, by Laura Muntz Lyall
Orphan

Silence ever is nothing but When one recounts the imprints ear… Wide bodies of outspoken past Under bridges built and burned. Taken to the head and heart,
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Casting Thoughts

The trees quiver with the yawning… And I struggle by an inner plight… Where went the words I need to sa… I can feel them, but they’re locke… The insects buzz and socialize;



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