Going Tagless...

Limericks

Once, these were for L.

*
I'll smoke just one more cigarette
because I can never forget.
Borne in heart and in bone,
weary things I have known,
and all that I have not yet.

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The trees outside of my window
cast lush shade on the yard below.
The lusty sunshine
sifts through the treeline;
fills my room with a green-gold glow.

*
A lady must always believe
that at any time she can leave.
She's a cagey beast
at the very least,
and not willingly retrieved!

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No matter the era or season,
Love grows without coaxin or teasin.
Lawless are the laws,
and causeless the cause;
Love is it's own reason.

To be blessed by the lightning,
    you must stand in the rain
alone in the wide field of your fears
                    and yield yourself
       up to the chance
          that you were meant
 for your own happiness.