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Best Poems From
RANI TURTON
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The Woman You Could Have Loved
If you come upon those
Rainbows, those sunsets, those narrow city streets
Before the parting of ways; from time to time
The perfume from women's hair might jostle your memory:
Your sensitive hands, whilst touching fine silk
Might remember another time; your eyes
Resting on another face that resembles another's from another time
Might remind you elusively, furtively of
The woman you could have loved.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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The World And I
Distance, absence, nothing makes sense.
Voids that need to be filled, needs
That quite simply need to be fulfilled.
I can hear, speak and reason
As long as as I may
But nothing can tell me why
Life turns out this way
I delved into the mystic poets.
Late nights and only them
Seemed to understand.
Whenever I see the river
The earth, the clouds and the sky
Watch the birds flying, flying, flying
Thus turns the world and I
Now as paths move onward
Pages remain to be turned:
Life is my ally.
Copyright; Rani Turton
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There is the Sky, There is the River
There is the sky, there is the river
The taker, and the giver
There is the sand, there are the stones
All that constitutes our bones
There are the stars and the trees
The soul has eyes that sees
The body thus thinks and acts
But then, whose is this mind that reacts?
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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There Was That Then
There was that then
There is this now;
Then, the sun-heated tiles
And now, now the snow.
There were fat shady trees then
But that was then
And now the years have slipped away
The trees are now tall and thin.
Now I see the seasons pass
Spring, summer, winter and fall
But long long ago
All that didn't matter at all.
The world turns slowly for some
And not fast enough for others
The stars, the sun, the moon
Are now my sisters and brothers.
Rani Turton
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