Claire V. Bogdanos

Acceptance,Knowledge,Love,New Chapter,Process,Wisdom,

I MISS YOU ( 1985 ) 2013/02/14

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Those bright blue eyes that laughed aloud

And caught this heart on love’s blind cloud

Those wrinkled cheeks and foolish grin

With dimpled dot in scoundrel chin,

Broad hunch of shoulders wrapped in tweed

And long brisk pace suggesting speed

Accompanied that boyish look

While caution from my senses took.

 

Sweet gentle man with hungry heart

How do you fare since we’re apart?

I knew I should not hold you long

I could not fit where you belong.

I close my eyes or gaze in space

Because I cannot fill your place

I miss you now and shall until

This heart of mine at last, is still.

 

THOUGHT ( 1989 )

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Truth, I have lived so many years and learned so many things

And lastly found the value of the peace that loving brings.

 

LOVERS ( 1978 )

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Affairs begin and end with both hope and despair entwined

Small reason endowed and divers customs that wax unkind

How plainly sweet it is to become lovers for today,

Some habits that had been sooner left behind fade away,

Deserting trying faults, assuming honest attitudes

Forsaking wasteful words, discarding useless platitudes.

Relief at last knowing someone cares about you as such,

And being the person that you are, thus not begging much.

A certain vulnerability that comes with caring

And flowers into a dream for two by simply sharing,

These may thrive on a plane with honest friendship growing

Baring goals and certain fears, leaving only need showing,

Thus easing day’s complaint and evening’s often grueling woe

Lifting veils of insecurity and lonesome sorrow.

 

And so then keenly knowing safety lies within their reach,

No wish to scourge the other’s will or reckless, dreams impeach,

But rather bolster where some small weakness craves strong defence

Finding that each other understands, giving scant offense,

And willing both to comprehend the whole of relating

That quality of sense, forcing truth to life equating,

Blending two into one with passion’s embrace beginning,

Perhaps timid pair, given time, may grow with love winning.

 

ALISON ( 1977 ) 2013/02/13

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I loved you, Alison, daughter I never had,

Little bird with timorous wings trying to soar

Above life’s clamor and din, mediocre and sad,

Like a lion at bay, as it whimpers a roar

Far too regal to run yet too timid to fight,

A babe thrust from her nest by adversity’s quirk,

Yet she stood like a queen never taking to flight.

How I envied her strength and the way her mind worked

And I loved her like a child I wished had been mine,

She stole my heart yet never understood the why,

But a wildflower to a cage one can’t confine,

Neither chain hearts or wings, hummingbird homeward fly.

See the pluck of that heart and the length of her limbs,

Flee now from the wind and consuming storm that stirs

To devour the sweet soul that breathed curious whims,

Shattered hopes, scattered dreams, the world could have been hers

And through her tender tears she wove her magic spell,

Her good-bye, whispered soft, bore majestic disdain,

Sweet child of my heart now gone I pray you fare well,

Lose not that bright spirit soon we’ll meet once again.

 

NIGHTSONG ( 1978 )

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Listen, my dear, the lonely night has wings

And to this heart a song of sadness sings

From dusk till dawn the plaintive air goes on,

Responsive chords echoing in carillon.

A night concert led by cicada sound

And the baritone frogs chant all around

While the wind contributes her peal of bells

Here, there, brisk rustling leaves this hymn dispels.

Hark as the distant stars play tympani

And turn lament into sad symphony

To fall on ears that blend soft melody

As those who loved in perfect harmony,

That ofttimes dissonant and tired score

When lyric moonbeams danced but love no more.

 

REQUITED ( 1957 ) 2013/02/11

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There is so much to tell to you

I know not where to begin now,

Think only thoughts that can be true

For it will be alright somehow,

Some day, somewhere, I’ll come to you,

And we’ll begin where love did end,

Our ebbing love far stronger grew

As tears their strength did power lend.

Until that day once more we’ll meet,

The long and lonely years forgot,

While life shall seem so incomplete,

I beg of you, forget me not.

 

This deed of horror and outrage

Remember not that I have done,

As time will heal, all pain assuage,

That grief need not your luck forerun.

 

To you I’ve willed the hidden plague

That suffers man his whole life through,

I loved you more though manner vague,

Possessed of heart unfaltering true.

I cannot say the why of it,

I only know that time won’t fade

This ache which bides with me unfit,

My heart must walk in loveless shade

Until I share once more with you,

And through this dark and dreary cast

That to my dying day I’ll rue

I’ll need you most, forget you last.

The saddest dream, long gone astray

Would that it might be now undone,

These simple words my will convey,

As I loved you, love I your son.

 

REEVALUATION ( 1980 ) 2013/02/06

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How strange that I’ve heard news of you today

Sure I had thought that you’d sailed far away.

Almost as though we too had never caprice known

Emotion tossed like dust into the wild wind sown.

Then for awhile these images were best forgot

In growing time did slowly fade and lingered not.

Now word which caused my heart to doubtful hesitate

Has forced my mind to halt and painless meditate.

And through the distance clearly impediment saw

Like rocky shoals that shelter an unchartered shore.

Some embryo now guarded in its silk cocoon

From reckless growing thoughts that stifle breath too soon

While rising fears assail me baring their own ill,

And wonder why when all is done, I love you still.

 

One foolish dream that had been better tucked away

Lingers with a passion declining to decay,

And carries as its burden, the weight of hoping

This craft, its compass gone in the darkness groping,

Far saner put ashore upon safe sandy beach

Than seek one lifetime long, lost paradise to reach.

 

SIMPLICITY ( 2001)

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Of all the dreams I’ve ever known

But one remains steadfast and clear.

Of all the seeds I’ve ever sown

That with the spring will reappear,

Of all the gifts I’ve ever bought

And cherished with a thought unreal,

Of all the hopes I’ve ever sought,

In faith, which to my mind appeal,

This simplest one, I’ve valued most,

Friendship sealed with kind helping hands,

A love that feels no need to boast,

A heart that cares and understands.

 

EACH CHRISTMAS ( 1989 )

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The candles in the window, the frost clings to each bough

The holly climbs the lamppost, the weather’s colder now

Tis time for sweaters, muffs and gloves and season’s merry glee

Yet with each falling snowflake my thoughts drift back to thee.

I hear the Christmas carol they sang that Christmas Day

And all of this it happened to someone far away.

This season brings to many a hope of untold joy

To me it means a memory time refuses to destroy.

I saw you first that Christmas Day and knew it had to be

That I should fall in love with you and you in love with me.

Fate seemed to speak to both of us the selfsame words we heard

I saw the laughter in your eyes my heart held every word.

Though slow to speak as then you were, I waited one long year

My hopes began to crumble as that Christmas time drew near.

This time you did not fail me, my dream at last came true

You loved me my beloved as much as I loved you.

 

The joy we knew that Christmas will never come again

In vanished in the springtime in the mist and foggy rain.

And so again  each Christmas when the snowflakes gently fall

It’s the time of sweet remember not the parting I recall

And I say to you my darling, wherever you may be

That you think of me at Christmas if you ever think of me.

I should hope that you remember not the springtime and its rain

But the love and tender kindness not the sadness and the pain

Not the years of endless waiting and the promises untold

But the laughter and the happiness that remembering doth hold.