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Best Poems From
CHARLES M. MOORE
(1953 june)
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For the love of you
If I could don new head and heart
to make you love me true
I'd wear a head with beauty
that it may see me through
I'd don a heart with courage
for my own is far to weak
my eyes would burn celestial fire
but only when we meet
for the love of you
From head to toe I would adorn
encrusted jewels and pearls
my mind I'm sure would not be just
less the knowledge of the worlds
all of this and more besides
I'd change with swift apace
but only if you would enchant me
with your virgin grace
for the love of you.
Charles M. Moore
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90.
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FOUR MINUTES
Tuesday morning half past eight
that's the time that I awake
see the shadows on the wall
hear the early morning call,
Draw my breath and wipe my eyes
I'll arise at 35
the time just now is 31
tuesday morning has begun,
Think of all that I must do
the time is nearly 32
I'm going to have a busy day
tuesday mornings under way,
Sitting up I greet the dawn
and wonder where my socks have gone
the time has just left 33
tuesday morning's mad at me,
I see my socks upon the floor
the time just now is 34
tuesday morning is no more.
Written after the realization that we would only get four minutes warning of nuclear holocaust.
Charles M. Moore
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I and me and you
I am the redeemer
I will search your soul
to look for all you've given
and seek for all you hold
I will give no quarter
no inkling shall you find
of weakness nor of favour
as I explore your mind
No sympathy nor anger
no pity and no shame
no laughter tears or empathy
no reason to explain
No humour nor no sorrow
no tenderness nor pain
I seek the true epitome
of all that you remain
I am everything you've seen
everything you knew
all that's out and in and been
I and me and you.
Charles M. Moore
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I fall in love so easily
I fall in love like a ship takes to sea
through the storms and the tempests and tranquility
like a bird to the air, like the buzzing of bee
I fall in love so easily
I fall in love at a name or a song
at a whispering glance or straight forward come on
at a fiddling of fingers when patience has gone
I fall in love so easily
I fall in love when it's time I should go
at the chirping of cricket or hacking of crow
at the running of fox and of rabbit and doe
I fall in love so easily
I fall in love when there's no one around
when the night's at its darkest and there isn't a sound
when I feel all alone with the air and the ground
I fall in love so easily
I fall in love when it's breaking my heart
when it all falls around me and tears me apart
when I think it's the end, it comes flooding back
I fall in love so easily
I fall in love at the slightest of smiles
to the opening of pupil and twinkle of eye
to a shape and a form I could go on and on
yes I fall in love so easily.
Charles M. Moore
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