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Best Poems From
RANI TURTON
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Without You
Without you the waters lie still; the reflections of silent trees
Remain as though transfixed but not tranfigured.
Green shrubs and leaves remain sombre; clouds peer
And wonder at the stillness.
It might even rain. Why doesn't the rain
Fall now and be done with it's will?
Without you feelings remain in my heart
Unable to be expressed. Freedom and finery
Are long behind. Senses and sense are nonsense.
When will the cells in my body awake?
When will the dawn come and awakening light
Awaken my brain?
Let me wait for another day yet again.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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Words, Like Tools
Words like tools, are my expression.
Words, unlike theories remain
For generations to come.
The universe will change, gradually
But words, like tools can express
Emotion and expression, and remove
Unnecessary lingering worry and stress.
Before we are we were
Now we are we won't be;
That, then, is the crux of this theory.
Words like tools lie idle near my hands
Pass through my mind
Insubstantial phantoms
Here and then not there
Never alone but living in isolation
Until total cessation.
Copyright: Rani Turton
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Yes, Today I Will Celebrate Life
Yes, today I will celebrate life
Put my cloak of sadness aside.
I, the poet, the wanderer who changed worlds
Crossed seas and sought my destiny.
Mudstained, weary but still reflecting:
Outside the tavern door sits an old man
I ask my way; he points inside
So inside I go to rest and dream.
Today, I will rest from worldly preoccupations.
Today, I will celebrate life.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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You Were, You Are
You were, you are
An indissociable part of my destiny.
At dusk when the birds settle in their nests
A calm comes upon me.
I think of the stanzas and sentences
That this hand transcribed into poems.
I think of the emotion in your eyes
Silent, unspoken.
I think of the years transcribed into days.
Oh, was that wise.
The world has a way of rending and rendering.
The world can tear you into two.
When in the silence of the night I wonder about you
The tears, tears, fill up my eyes.
You are, you were and always will be
An indissociable part of my destiny.
Copyright: Rani Turton
Rani Turton
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