THE END – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Have we reached
the final page
of the final chapter 

The End of our time together

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A MARATHON SLOW DANCE – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Even if our
Last Dance
was a Marathon
Slow Dance 

HAIKU: IT’S NOT WORKING – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I choose not to care

HAIKU: THE LOVE OF THE FATHER – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I am a believer

HAIKU: MORE THAN A PICTURE CAN SAY – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

A poem can convey

THE KEY – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

she wants to keep the key
it seems rather strange
since she’s left
            the city
                        the state
                                    and me

she needed to distance me
            with time
                        with miles
                                    with an affair

OLD NEWS – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

How can he be so deaf

when my heart is crying?

Why can’t he see

the tears that fall as I cry?

THE TOUCH OF THE NEW – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

he didn’t mean to do it
he just fell into the trap
and when he finally told her
she gave his face a slap

how could you do this?
she yelled, then cried
I’ve trusted you forever
how long now have you lied?

HAIKU: UNGUARDED MOMENTS – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

 

I think about you

THE EARTH KNOWS SHE’S SICK OF US – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

The earth knows

she’s sick of us

volcanos cough

a rain of tears

the wind blows

and the earth knows

she has a cold