Ajohnston1224's Poems

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Girl with a Pearl Earring No one knows my name and yet I’m as famous as Van de Meer who painted me. Ever on the lips of others, mysterious, un-judged, beyond desire, I’m more beautiful than a thousand seas. I want to live for a thousand years like a singing bird... – *by Ajohnston*	8 Views added 2 years ago	Rating
Postcard from Key West My Harley spins me through the long, liquid nights, crossing one bridge and then another - Key Largo, Key Biscayne, Key West. I spend my days among the runaways, sitting with the tired smell of orchids and the scent of untidy lives, ... – *by AJohnston*	6 Views added 2 years ago	Rating
The Gondola Pulls My Sister up the Mountain The gondola pulls my sister up the mountain on thin, shiny cables, into the clouds, the mountain, the forests of spruce and pine while I remain in the valley below to build a dream catcher from a thin branch of willow knotted together by... – *by Ajohnston*	6 Views added 2 years ago	Rating

Girl with a Pearl Earring

No one knows my name
and yet I’m as famous as Van de Meer
who painted me.
Ever on the lips of others,
mysterious, un-judged, beyond desire,
I’m more beautiful than a thousand seas.
I want to live for a thousand years
like a singing bird...

– by Ajohnston

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added 2 years ago

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Postcard from Key West

My Harley spins me through the long, liquid nights,
crossing one bridge and then another -
Key Largo, Key Biscayne, Key West.
I spend my days among the runaways,
sitting with the tired smell of orchids
and the scent of untidy lives,
...

– by AJohnston

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added 2 years ago

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The Gondola Pulls My Sister up the Mountain

The gondola pulls my sister up the mountain
on thin, shiny cables,

into the clouds, the mountain,
the forests of spruce and pine
while I remain in the valley below
to build a dream catcher from a thin branch of willow knotted together by...

– by Ajohnston

6 Views

added 2 years ago

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