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by
Douglas L. Simmons
Copyright © 2005 - 2010 by Douglas L. Simmons
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Lady
Laugh With Me
Little Girls
Living In Today
A Long Time
Looking At Her
Love I Love
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Lady
I am your victim
much more than you are mine,
for I know that what I'm saying
you've been told such a long time,
and the roles that we are playing
are decaying line by line.
I am your captive
for the ages.
You are the string
that holds the pages,
in the diaries of the sons
who've gone to war,
and the biographies of the ones
who paid and learned what pain is for.
You are born between the hearts
of young men.
Torn between the parts
you must love them.
Though your loneliness continues calling,
down through the years it cries for freedom,
while the only-ness of livin',
and the comfort you were given,
continues falling on the battlefields
of the kingdoms you have built
with understanding that you must believe
the history told you.
So handing up your sons to glory,
watch them leave while you still can see them.
Smile and wish that you could be them.
For there is no one left to hold you.
Your husbands and lovers died
along the road.
They had their pride
and they had their code.
I am your victim
much more than you are mine,
for I know that what I'm saying
you've been told such a long time,
and the roles that we are playing
are decaying line by line.
Doug L.
January 5, 1974
Mainz, Germany
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Laugh With Me
(a series of poems; perhaps)
Always
I Love You!
Laugh with me.
In the morning.
Always----
- Doug L.
04-24-10
Whiting IN
The Ride
Laugh with me...
With the sun in yours eyes...
The wind in your face...
Feel the rush of the ride...
Find peace in this place...
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Doug L.
04-26-10
Whiting IN
Wanting More...
Laugh with me...
And waves on the shore...
The gulls on the pier...
Calling; mine, mine, mine...
Wanting more, wanting more...
Now is more. Laughing here...
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Doug L.
04-27-10
Whiting IN
One
Laugh with me...
While love is new...
When you are me...
And I am you...
Laugh with me...
When love is true...
No longer me...
No longer you...
When we are one...
No longer two...
Doug L.
04-30-10
Whiting IN
Aspire
Laugh with me...
Let someone see...
You laughing here...
Then watch their eyes...
See their surprise...
As they draw near...
As they enquire...
And then aspire...
To laughing here...
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Doug L.
05-03-10
Whiting IN
Morning
Laugh with the garden
Enjoying the sun.
Laugh with the flowers
When morning is come.
Laugh with the garden
Bright shining with dew.
Laugh with the flowers,
And their bright laughing hughes.
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Doug L.
05-06-10
Whiting IN
Binding
Laugh with me;
Because we're free.
The past no longer binding.
Laugh with me;
Because we see
This joy so long in finding.
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Doug L.
05-13-10
Whiting IN
Laugh with me
So I can see
The sight of you
Laughing too.
Laugh with me
And let me know
You are the reason
I'm laughing so.
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Doug L.
10-17-10
Whiting IN
Trying
You laugh with me:
So now, you see,
I laugh with you.
You laugh with me
and you set free
my laughter too.
Now I don't cry.
Now I know why.
You laugh with me.
It makes me try
to let you see
the love in me.
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Doug L.
08-23-10
Whiting, IN
I Spoke.
Thinking that I had no words;
I spoke no more.
Thinking I had done it all;
I closed the door.
Thinking I had heard the world;
I closed my heart.
Thinking to escape the pain;
I drew apart.
Then you were there laughing
At a voice I didn't hear.
Hoping I might laugh again;
I spoke: to draw you near.
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Doug L.
09-27-2010 8:30 a.m.
Whiting Indiana
Unknowing
Others may sit
In the garden.
Laugh with the flowers
And the trees.
Unknowing who tends
The garden;
Ignorant as the birds
And the bees.
Without you there would be
No garden.
Without you no laughter
In me.
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Doug L. 10-06-10 3:25 A.M.
Whiting Indiana.
Laugh with me
When cold winds blow;
Bring south the news
Of coming snow.
Laugh with me
While angles fly,
While dreams go by,
All white and shinny new.
I'll laugh with you.
We'll know it's true:
This is a time of gladness.
It's not a day to morn.
On a winter night,
Star shining bright,
With laughter Love
Was born.
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Doug L. 11-05-2010
Whiting IN
Laugh with me
as spring is here.
If memory serves,
a second year.
The laughing flowers
will spring anew,
and laughing love
as well; with you.
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Doug L.
Whiting IN. 4-13-2011
...Alone
I laughed. Alone;
a monotone
of solitary sound.
And laughing there
with none to hear
no joy; in laughter found.
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Doug L.
04-21-2011
Whiting IN
Two laughing hearts
so far apart...
...in time.
Still;
laughed the same.
As years became
and time...
...remained
at last;
the moment came.
When now is heard
two voices...
...merged...
in harmony;
laughing yet again.
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Doug L.
Whiting, IN
5-6-2011 8:00am.
What if you
had laughed with me;
some long time ago?
Would we now
have the capacity
to laugh at letting go?
Without the loss,
without the tears,
would we now be laughing so?
From out of all
the lonely years;
does not the laughter grow?
- Doug L.
Whiting Indiana
05-25-2011 9:00am.
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Little Girls
When tears are in your heart
before you start
to cry
remember me,
and how we used to be
alive.
When they hurt you again
think of the pain
you left here to me.
Loving is free,
but you have to pay
when you give your soul away.
Little girl
it isn't how
you thought it was
out in the world.
Doug L.
August 6, 1973
Mainz, Germany
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Living In Today
Not thinking of tomorrow
you're living in today,
until they come to take it all away,
yea, up until they take it all away.
Not thinking of anybody
you make everybody pay,
until you find you've sold it all away.
Who are you when you've sold yourself away?
In your search for freedom
you leave everybody bleedin' along the way.
When your children ask about it
what are you gonna say?
Will you tell them they won't find
the love they're looking for,
that their hearts
won't let that happen anymore?
Not thinking of tomorrow
you're living in today,
until they come to take it all away.
Yea, up until they take it all away.
Doug L.
March 17, 1974
Mainz, Germany
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A Long Time
It's been such a long time
since I saw you,
yea, such a long time.
Now I'm not trying
to compliment you,
don't get me wrong.
Oh no, no don't get me wrong.
It's just been a long time
since I saw you,
since you were
anywhere near to home.
And I'm not trying
to undermine your ego
by saying you were looking fine
the last time I saw you:
Or trying to determine
if you have been anywhere close to
or across the line.
I'm just saying
it sure has been a long time.
Doug L.
March 10, 1974
Mainz, Germany
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Looking At Her
Like a freedom bird she flies
overhead.
Like an Eagles word she dies
all alone.
She heals me with her lies
when I have bled,
and she fills me with her eyes
when I'm stone.
Looking at her self
she'll take me off my shelf
(and hold me) for some comfort
and a smile.
Yes she loves me,
I'm her lover,
and there isn't any other.
For a while.
Doug L.
December 6, 1973
Baumholder, Germany
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Love I Love
Some days we laugh.
Some days we cry.
You're the love I love,
I never want to say good-bye.
You're the love I like
to be near all the time.
You're the love I gladly
tell the world is only mine.
Some people love,
some can only hate.
I'm glad I learned to love you
before it was too late.
Some days we reach each other,
some days we only get along,
but we always know
that our love never will be gone.
Some days we laugh.
Some days we cry.
You're the love I love,
I never want to say good-bye.
Doug L.
February 21, 1974
Mainz, Germany
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