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Best Poems From
PATTI MASTERMAN
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Once I Met a Bodhisattva
Once I met a Bodhisattva,
Met him many times and ways;
And every single time we met
He wore a different face.
Patti Masterman
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1598.
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Once More, with Feeling
Regret sings loudest, at the end of days
When we've learned all the stony declensions of sad
Grown new lives; but discarded grown-up ways
And can someone tell us what we just saw in that play
The one where we lost our fabled innocence;
How could there ever be an encore, for that?
With fever incipient, we've weighed our losses;
Rooms where nobody will ever confess
How we are responsible for nefarious things
Born on the darkening wings of night,
For a farther sun shines, without any shadow
And lights the world, when we've said goodnight.
Patti Masterman
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1599.
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once remembered gods
the magic perfume of yesterday's translucent woman lingers
like smoke breathes through an open window
why did the blue ocean wear a wake
pick a flower child once gone wild
yet slow stars always surround the morning
never could my heart become the prisoner of your smile
Patti Masterman
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Once Upon a Lie
Bury me with all these memories,
Crowding the elevators to sky;
Bleed me of whatever's left,
In my terminal sigh.
Time wafts in the brains clefts,
Scattering the cuneiform dies;
Breath all I thought I had left,
Once upon a lie.
Patti Masterman
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