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 A collection of prose and poetry by Theresa Curnow.2008 ©Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~Percy Shelley,
 A Defence of Poetry
, 1821God is the perfect poet. ~Robert BrowningGenuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot,
 Dante
, 1920Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not theexpression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those whohave personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.~T.S. Eliot,
Tradition and the Individual Talent 
, 1919
 
Index:1. Chasing Leaves.2. Dead Heart.3. Death and I.4. Now You’re Gone.5. Going Home.6. Broken Needles.7. Behind Closed Doors.8. Black Widow.9. Illicit.10. Strangers.11. In the Night.12. Betrayal and Retribution.13. Devil in the Night.14. The Clock.15 A Thousand Tears.16. Bending With the Wind.17. Hidden.18. The Silence of the Seasons.19. Nature’s Frost.20. Eternal Stars.21. Days of Yore.22. The Witch’s Song.23. The Boy on the Moon.24. Searching For You.25. Snowflake On Your Lips. 
Chasing Leaves.
 
 
As the Winter takes the sunand disrobes all the trees,I see you shimmer in purple dusk amidst the falling leaves.When drifting night takes the dayand paints the sunset hues,your laughter brings a husky warmthand takes away my blues.The rippling lake before us liesa fragrant breeze adrift,you cloak me in your sweetest wordsyour touch like gentle mist.The velvet sky like ebony fallsgiving birth unto the lights,I shed my clothes and slip unseeninto the coldest night.The lake envelops skin of paleand gives rise to my breath,I float awhile with you besidefeels like we've died a death.We swim across into the treesthat beckon in the breeze,silently with glistening skinwe chase the falling leaves.Your laughter lifts me up so highonto a heavenly plane, Nature's lovers we've becomewe are the one and same.Your kisses land like fairies wingsupon my cold pale skin,I feel the love that once we had
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