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the sun craves the longing of adoring eyes

    encouraging him every morning to rise

        and shower the earth in an intimate blaze

           of affection sprinkled with enlivening rays

                                     and

           the lily pines for the dew’s consoling caress

        to chase away the chill of night’s loneliness

    inspiring her in his warm embrace

to share with the world her incomparable face

                                     and

    just like the beckoned sun and the lily kissed by dew

        sometimes i need someone to tell me i’m beautiful

                        too 

(© 1999 Marcus Harris, originally published in Songs In Search Of A Voice)

                        rent money for weaves,

                             phones cut off for manicures –

          makes for good profit 

(© 1999 Marcus Harris, originally published in Songs In Search Of A Voice)

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my grandma

used to talk about

when she met

my granddaddy -

what she said,

I forget,

but I'll always remember

the glow on her face when

she spoke...

I imagine

I looked the same

when you looked at me

in homeroom...

and if I were a poet,

I'd know just the words

to describe the feeling

of

your lips on mine

or

your fingers in my palm

and

maybe I could express

the way my heart

used to flutter

whenever I got a text from

you...

I guess

I could also explain

how it felt

when I saw

you

at the mall with

him.

(© 2017 Marcus Harris, originally published in #snapshot)

                           Pop Pop says real wealth:

                   buy property, then build homes -

                                 mortgages, not rent.

(© 2017 Marcus Harris, originally published in #snapshot)