Without You : Poem

Without You

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Without you the waters lie still; the reflections of silent trees

Remain as though transfixed but not tranfigured

Green shrubs and leaves remain sombre; clouds peer

And wonder at the stillness.

It might even rain. Why doesn’t the rain

Fall now and be done with it’s will?

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Without you feelings remain in my heart

Unable to be expressed. Freedom and finery

Are long behind. Senses and sense are nonsense.

When will the cells in my body awake?

When will the dawn come and awakening light

Awaken my brain?

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Let me wait for another day yet again.

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Copyright: Rani Turton

Shadow Of A Streetlamp: Photograph

Wooden figure, Auxerre

In Auxerre, the older houses often have statues or wooden figures adorning them.

If Tears There Should Be: Poem

If Tears There Should Be

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If tears there should,lying dormant in

This silent heart, let them flow, unchecked

Or let them go

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If tears there be when I walk the streets

And my footsteps sound hollow

No time for sorrow

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If tears should overwhelm me

By sheer torrential power

Over and over

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Let the tears come on, slow.

The fountains flow.

Let this emotion show

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Now, or just go.

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Copyright: Rani Turton

Invalides, Paris

The golden dome of Invalides that contains both Napoleon's tomb and the Army Museum.

Deserts That Dance In My Mind: Poem

DESERTS THAT DANCE IN MY MIND

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Endless walks, nothing at all in sight;

Nothing and nobody in sight.

My mind, still and

Oblivious to the external world, scorched and

Silent, walked , walked, walked on.

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People with pasts have memories to keep them warm

And others, have nothing more to say.

The mind, like a furnace, clings to the air

To burn, to burn, to burn bright.

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There are deserts that dance in my mind

Strange, irreal and almost divine.

They beckon, they chase me from reason

As I circle in the vast nowhere, somewhere, everywhere.

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Copyright: Rani Turton

The Red Carpet, Cannes

The famous walk up the red carpet for the film festival at Cannes.