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  May 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 3 total

Girl with a Pearl Earring

No one knows my name
and yet I’m as famous as Van de Meer
who painted me.
Ever on the lips of others,
mysterious, un-judged, beyond desire,
I’m more beautiful than a thousand seas.
I want to live for a thousand years
like a singing bird...

– by Ajohnston

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Postcard from Key West

My Harley spins me through the long, liquid nights,
crossing one bridge and then another -
Key Largo, Key Biscayne, Key West.
I spend my days among the runaways,
sitting with the tired smell of orchids
and the scent of untidy lives,
...

– by AJohnston

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The Gondola Pulls My Sister up the Mountain

The gondola pulls my sister up the mountain
on thin, shiny cables,

 into the clouds, the mountain,
the forests of spruce and pine
while I remain in the valley below
to build a dream catcher from a thin branch of willow knotted together by...

– by Ajohnston

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