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FRIENDLY STRANGERS   by[1;40;37m Marilyn Hutchings[1;40;36m
  
Communication through time and space
Bring together interested minds and souls
Curiosity--a human idiosyncrasy--
Draws the bodies together--face to face.
     Familiarity creates a rift
     Bonds thought strong disintegrate
     Lies, innuendo, and corruption
     Destroy fragile relationships
Opportunity for renewal
Offered in an invitation
     Transportation with anticipation
     To a land different yet the same
     Celebration of life and love
     The best of the human condition
Acceptance--unconditionally
Loving, happy, trusting
People--friendly strangers
Counteract cruel friends.


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For Anyone Who Has Been In Lust
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Hold me in your gaze
Let me fall into your soul
Feel the lightning graze
Shiver with the power.

Take me in your arms,
Caress me, surround me, engulf me,
Envelop me with your charms,
Lips warm and moist, soft and tender.

Let me into your heart.
Speak to me without words,
Feel the beat of my heart...
It beats out your name.
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WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS
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Smoke swirls, snaking
around heads, hands and faces,
obscuring vision--protecting
souls from prying eyes.
     Laughter rings, glasses and ice
     clink like windchimes
     testing and warning of
     the prevailing winds.
People sit next to each other
worlds apart
trying to bridge the gap
with eyes and smiles.
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THE WELL  by[1;40;37m Marilyn Hutchings[1;40;36m
  
What is this place,
This dark empty space,
Void, blackest night,
Cloud-banished starlight.
     What is this shell,
     This barren, bloated well
     That no water fills,
     Deep, dark and still.
Walls made by man,
Sand, rock mised with rain.
Stone feels no pain,
Ice, warm, damp--no plan.
     A weed takes hold
     Strong, to fight the cold.
     Small, begun with seed,
     Stone gives way to need.
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THE VOICE OF REASON
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Bittersweet tears and laughter
Faces of friends, of family, of lovers,
Corporeal forms, forgotten in time,
Only the love, the pain, the joy, the saddness remains.

Broken, mended, scarred, revived, closed,
The living continues, the heart cries
The facade is cultivated, groomed, fed....
Can you hear the sobs from a sound-proofed room.
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A PROFFERED HAND
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Friendship's hand is soft,
Smooth and comforting.
No one need fear,
All may come near.

Friendship's hand is safe.
No demands or controls,
All is freely given,
No trust or faith is riven.

Friendship's hand touches
Gently, lovingly,
Taking part of the strain,
Easing a bit of the pain.
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A FEATHER
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Rain-washed ground thirsts,
Sun-baked and cracked
Northwind-blown and cold
Craves a touch, downy, light and soft.
     Above the ground--in a stream
     A feather befins its pendulum path.
     Slowly it comes to rest on the earth,
     Rocked to and fro by currents unseen.
Parched earth soothed by a feather,
Gifted by the gods--surcease.
No demands, no recriminations,
Communion, spirit sours with spirit.
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ATTEMPT AT HARPER RHYME: AS PER ANNE MCCAFFREY 
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  by[1;40;37m Marilyn Hutchings[1;40;36m
  
Harper sing and people hear
Of events both far and near
Holder learn, Holder obey
Harper, in both words and way.

Old ways aren't always the best ways
To choose our craft or spend our days,
Harper, show us, Harper teach us,
Open our minds, let good hearts lead us.

Harpers ware dragonminds
Dangers 'bound of every kind
Fear and ignorance abound
Dragon and friends can't stay around.

Friends for life, now one's departed
Victim of fear, enlightenment thwarted.
Black dragon discovers another ere
Goes between to save her friend.

Other dragons stuck in time
Wait to hear from me and mine.
Must go back, must go see
Other friends, and set them free.[1;40;36m
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