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Poems in D
by
Douglas L. Simmons
Copyright © 2005 by Douglas L. Simmons
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David's Children
Delta
Desire
Don't Turn Me Down
Dream
Dream Of Tomorrow
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David's Children
Will the sun be surely shining
in the morning over there?
All your silver ships are climbing
feel the heat trails in the air.
Well your star it is not gleaming,
you say it's been that way before.
All our tears are softly screaming
but can not reach you to say more.
Oh you leave your dreams all standing
in the rain and in the cold.
In your darkness you're demanding
another painful truth to hold.
How could you believing
aim to be so far above them?
How can you be leaving
and claim to me that you love them?
Oh now that you are growing
so very wild and free,
the endless winds are blowing
down the changes; can't you see?
All your pretty visions shifting
on your blood won sacred sands.
All your petty visions sifting
through your blood stained empty hands.
Will the sun be surely calling
in the morning anywhere?
All your silver spears are falling,
feel the heat trails ever nearer?
Doug L.
October 18,1973
Mainz, Germany
At the ending of the river,
on the Mississippi Delta.
Where the muddy river waters go,
way out into the ocean;
in the cold Atlantic Ocean,
where the Gulf Stream waters flow.
Gonna sail me down the river.
Gonna find me a little island,
where the coconut and palm trees grow;
where the summer air is breezy
and the sunny life is easy.
Where the waves along the sea shore glow.
In the crystal moonlight shining
hear the lonely hearts a-pining
for the only love that ever they will know.
Past the ending of the river,
through the Mississippi Delta,
moves the Muddy Mississippi, dying slow.
Doug L.
1969
Hammond, Indiana
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Desire
Love me for this moment.
Let tomorrow go,
if living for the moment
is the only way we'll know.
Life is such a brief thing
passing by and gone.
What we do now, together,
is forever when it's done.
I could want to love you dearly,
tenderly, and long.
I would love you, just as clearly
knowing you would soon be gone.
Then the vision of your beauty,
and the sweetness of your smile,
would perform their tragic duty.
And be with me for a while.
And the love which lingered after
the fading of that fire
would be just and due repayment
for full filling this desire.
Doug L.
Sunday 3:13 A.M.
May 30, 1993
Walnut St. Hammond, Indiana
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Don't Turn Me Down
Mother Nature don't turn me down,
I hear it coming?
It's an awful sound.
Won't you take another look around?
I got my children counting on me.
What are you gonna do,
you gonna let them freeze in the cold,
or leave them alone with no one to hold?
Now I know that we ain't
done you no right,
and times we hurt you
in our flight to be free.
We've been drinking your blood
to do what we wanted to do.
We have taken and given
nothing back to you.
But now we're writing songs
and singing them to you.
Collecting your wounded
and bringing them to you.
And helping your children
to make it too.
Telling everybody they've been mistreating you.
Now, then I am entreating you....
Doug L.
February 22, 1974
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Dream
I had a dream of a beautiful world.
I had a dream of a beautiful girl.
A dream of you.
A dream of you.
I had a dream the universe was mine.
I had a dream that lasted for all time.
But without you there is no dream.
And without you what could life mean?
How could you lay here with me and then be gone?
How could you love me and leave me alone?
Without a dream?
Without a dream?
Now my nights seem so much longer than before.
And now my days I spend them watching at my door.
I watch for you. I wait for you.
I long for you. I pray for you.
Doug L.
Autumn 1981
Hammond, Indiana
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Dream Of Tomorrow
Dream of tomorrow
while living today.
Live in tomorrow
when it comes your way.
Let yesterdays go
where yesterdays do.
Keep only the goodness
they've given to you.
6-4-94 1:00 A.M.
Doug L.
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