CARYN BEGESCHKE 635 WORDS
Where?
To see the summer sky, 1472
To tell the beauty would decrease, 1700
To the bright east she flies, 1573
To their apartment deep, 1701
To this world she returned, 830
To try to speak and miss the way, 1617
To undertake is to acheive, 1070
To venerate the simple days, 57
To wait an hour is long, 781
To whom the mornings stand for nights, 1095
Today or this noon, 1702
“Tomorrow” -- whose location, 1367
My Savior, My God
God is a distant, stately lover, 357
God is indeed a jealous God, 1719
God made a little gentian, 442
God made no act without a cause, 1163
God permits industrious angels, 231
Going to heaven, 79
Going to Him! 494
Good morning, midnight, 425
Good night, because we must, 114
Good night! Which put the candle out, 259
Life Cycle
[How soft a caterpillar steps, 1498]
“Caterpillar in the tree, how you wonder who you’ll be
[How soft this prison is, 1498]
you cant go far but you can always dream.
[Cacoon above! Cacoon below! 129]
Dont, you worry hold on tight.
I promise soon, that there will come a day.
[From cacoon forth a butterfly 354]
Butterfly, fly away.”
“I must open my hands and watch you rise.
Spread your wings and fly.
Butterfly.”
[Morning is due to all, 1577]
[Dew is freshest in the grass, 1097]
[Had I known that the first was the last, 1720]
[Had I not seen the sun, 1233]
[Had I not this, or this, I said 904]
[Had I presumed to hope. 522]
[Had this one day not been, 1253]
[Had we known the ton she bore, 1124]
[Had we our senses, 1284]
We could have saved her.
[Death sets a thing significant, 360]
[Death warrents are supposed to be, 1375]
[Deaths waylaying not the sharpest, 1296]
[Death is a dialogue, 976]
[Death is like the insect, 1716]
[Death is a supple suitor, 1445]
[Death is potential to that man, 548]
[Death leaves us homesick, 935]
Death, was her fate.
[How far is it to heaven, 929]
[How firm eternity must look, 1499]
She prayed.
[“Faith” is a fine intervention, 185]
[Faith is a pierless bridge]
She drowned.
[Heavenly Father, take to thee, 1461]
[Come slowly Eden, 185]
[Heaven has different signs to me, 1575]
[Heaven, is so far of the mind, 370]
[Heaven is what I cannot not reach, 239]
[Except the heaven, had come so near, 472]
[Except to heaven, she is nought. 154]
[I went to heaven, 374.]
His/Her
Her breast is fit for pearls, 84
His bill an auger is, 1034
Her face was in a bed of hair, 1722
His bill clasped, his eye forsook, 1102
Her final summer was it, 795
His cheek is his biographer, 1460
Her losses make our gains ashamed, 1562
His feet are shod with gauze, 916
Her smile shaped like ohter smiles, 514
His heart was darker than the starless night, 1378
Her spirit rose to such a height, 1486
His little hearse like figure, 1522
Her grace is all she has, 810
His mansion in the pool, 1379
Her sovereign people, 1139
His mind like fabrics of the east, 1446
Her sweet weight on my heart at night, 518
His mind of a man a secret makes, 1663
Her little parasol to lift, 1038
His oriental heresies, 1526
Her last poems, 312
His voice decrepit was with joy, 1476
Eye
I am afraid to own a body, 1090
I am ashamed, I hide, 473
I am alive I guess, 470
I asked no other thing, 621.
I came to buy a smile today, 223
I cannot buy it, tis not sold, 840
I bring an unaccustomed wine, 132
I could not drink it, sweet. 818.
