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Best Poems From
RANI TURTON
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Unfurl Your Wings
Unfurl your wings and fly
You can if only you would try
Let your mind free
Wander in total liberty
Shine like a multi-faceted gem
You can do it; show them.
Oft when we wonder and pause
It is just to complicate our cause
Let your mind free
Let it grow like a wild tree
Because thoughts, unlike branches
Should never be trimmed.
They should not be fettered
Never buried in trenches
Nor ever be dimmed
But like a fine vellum, lettered,
In gold, glow for ages ahead
When everyone else is dust and dead.
Rani Turton
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Unknown
The lines to this verse came from an unknown source
Wells within wheels, wheels within wells
And sources that spring and do poesie bring.
The sunlight on a meadow,
Shadows and dappled fields
A faint desperation does this poetry bring
And then these verses do sing, do sing.
Unknown I was, unknown I will be
The writer, the poet and the poetry
Now the unknown souces that speak to me
Continue to sing softly, sing softly.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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UNTIL THE END OF MORTALITY
I will tread on meandering paths, often weary;
I will stop and gaze at the sun as it rises.
I will watch a tree's leaves rustle in the breeze
Rest my body, so tired, when I please
I will wander in that old city's lanes
Pass crumbling mansions, craftsmen at work;
I will recall youth's joys and troubled sorrows
Even as I write in fragrant ink these lines;
I remember snatches of melody;
I remember the poetry of long ago.
Defenceness, under the end of mortality
I will witness my own nostalgic pain.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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Walking On That Far Shore
Walking on that far shore
You know, the one that hardly existed anymore.
The far shore, unhindered by daily reality;
Only glimpsed by immortal glances,
By those in mortal pain; when
The sun falls on fallen lids
When the rain cools and heals
When the body doesn't shiver
And the soul shines like quicksilver.
Walking on that far shore
You know, the one on the horizon
That comes closer with every stride;
As the page of life turns, alas rapidly
I, from that far shore cannot hide.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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