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Grow (saturate)

I pray

Most fervently that

Such an understanding as ours

Never fades or falls away from form

Or evaporates like water from the falls

Into a desert storm

Or dries into a dreary valley

Of regret and regress and waterless ash

No

May our trees of faith

And trust and hope

Communicate more than the rustling leaves

Or felling of forestry ever did know

I love growing with you, Saria

Of this you know?

Saria

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Unending wish

In all that I do

I wish not to fail

Or to fall pray to lesser things

Or even worse yet

To come remotely close to neglecting

Such a wonderful treasure as you are

And so I won’t

And hope and pray to not

Please dow't

How I wish to self

To remain the same

This impassioned me in name

For you

Saria

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Your bright willingness

Your willingness to try, my girl
Is just one of the many reasons why
I find
You to be beyond all others
And the perfect mix
Of both poise and preparedness
In the eyes of mine

There is no other love I love
Not even the temptation for another like
Because I find
In you a bit of myself
Overwhelmingly thankful for whi
And the you which you are
And what you've modeled yourself also to be like

For we guys
Its like peering up the bright night sky
And praying that a star becomes a firelight
Just for us this one single time
And yet here you are
Bright and vibrant in my hands
And I, I am in awe of how you are so bright

Saria

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This spark and warming fire

Your fire sparks me
So much so that I cannot help
But smile at the flame
And my not unwanting to burn also as well
But how do I say?
Of this I just know
That with you I will certainly
Continue to glow
Bright and burn as without burning
And so this is how
By our choice and choices we will go
Until someday when
All this smouldering will end
And appropriately
And abruptly
And most fortunately
For us both

So, Oh and oh

So until then
Will you warm me again?

Saria

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I, and, end with you

I give you all that I can give

I want you more than ere before

I wish for things as days are long

I write imply of what's in store

And with this nothing something new

And here is rests its head again

And with a beating heart embued

And its colorful hope of our in end

I am an and with you

Saria

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Your sensory smell

Your smell is like no season

Though the storms of spring

And the sunshine of summer

Both envy you

Just as winter wishes

That its snow were as soft as your skin

And fall complains most vocally that

Its leave cannot be as peacefully free

As your hair in the wind

How all of these times and seasons do wish

That they had

The naturally light aroma of your fragrant skin

But they don't, Saria

Its only you who do

And to me have ever been

Amazed in sense

Saria

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Atop a sunset gondola

With glow and shining hue

Above this lake of calm

My settled un is nowhere through

My heart instead abreast for you

Beats faster now than thoughts can mind

Or voice can speak this tongue untied

How I wish to know that you feel the same

And that our minds together once again

In this super specific way are

Entwined

Take away my nerves

And this twisted stomach of mine

My girl of mine

And say that you feel the same in kind

Saria

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Our memories a tanka soaked

Memory shakes me

And stirs oceans beneath me

Into churning mind

And soaks through my heart anew

In a dew unseen before

Saria

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Wishing for today back then

Originally I

Was unsure if you understood

How badly my heart

Wanted to be in sync with yours

To beat beside until skin was one

And our minds had questions

About the other no more

How I wished back then

To know what I do know now

And had also the linguistic presence of how

To speak it clearly and still

But now

Having heard it at last

Are our feelings been shared

Proudly and aloud

I'm ecstatic at the sight

And at these whispering sounds

Saria

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Of irritation and sunlight

It pricks like a needle

Bounces off like a fly

And stabs like a torn

Once grabbed in a gardners passing by

It's an irritants which

I cannot shake free of

Like a sunburn etched deep

In my once young summer mind

How you know not how

Such a method does grate

How a simple phrasing of the sun

Does blind

I'll let go I let go

And release this squinting sight

Knowing that all I can do now

As myself is be light

Sometimes sunshine can be awfully bright

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An author is

An author is

One who takes us away

Either having earned our trust

Or the trust of another who recommends

That here is a way to be free

Of even freedom indeed

On a vacation within vacation

Authors are those we look to

To take us away

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Young and rash

A youthful move

Either looks too much

Or not even one way

On a street of danger

For youth either wants tomorrow today

Or tomorrow never

And with no (known) particular way

To bring about either

This is their plight

Their most youthful way

And it is terribly fun

And annoying all the same

To be young

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A tanka about us

If there's one thing I

Have since learned in this secret

Quiet peace of mind

It's that I value this us

More than any someone new

Saria

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Hate, a haiku

The most treacherous

Noxious poison know

To unman is hate

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Happiness Un

I'm convinced

That I could do everything right

Slay every dragon in the sky

Have my own way for days

Never be crossed in love

Win the lottery twice

Sow forests

Build houses

Write with words more towering than heights

And yet still

After all of this activeness or life

Find something in my mind

To be discontented with

Because this

This

Is a human life

And to be less than satisfied is almost a prerequisite

For beathing and waiting

For watching water slowly heat

And northern seasons turn to ice

It is inevitable I find

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Expecting songs to carry weight

These old songs used to know

And hear the sounds

Which my heartbeat emitted

Which my minds eye saw

And my tongue rolled around

In full on love with the lost

In bright eyes with the dream

When now instead I awake

And in looking out

See

How things really and God meant to be

Its beautiful to be awake

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Windows and binding

If you wish for books

And big windows

And freedom

For long enough

And strong enough

You may one day find

That the wish was more

About what you were then

As compared to your taste now

Which is more

Shall we say... refined

Big windows are for looking inwards

Apparently

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Dreaming of a tanka

What comes after this

A dream into waking now

Is where sleepless ends

And waking spirits rise up

To wrap reality round

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Perceived Danger

It's a dangerous thing

When you perceive that

Nothing is going well in your life

For escapism is real

And really not where you wish to be

Or not be

This perception isn't everything

If anything its nothing

Yet we still feel it

From time to time

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