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Patty Crowe
Patty Crowe is a writer, photographer and composer of music. She has
written several books, some short stories and a number of poems. She
is currently engaged in writing a series of 50 phonics readers for
beginning readers. She is married to artist Ira Crowe, a sample of
whose work can also be viewed on this web site.
Contact Patty at: images2@erols.com
An Infinity Am I
One hundred years have I
Of blue soaked clouds and rolling hills
And green meadows beneath whose beds I lay.
Oh, sunlight! Sparkle deep within the brook
That you may, someday, have as many eyes as I.
The firmament is unto me as I
Am unto it.
10,000 years have I of peaceful days
Of sunlit fortitude
yea, if I wish -
For life is unto me as I see fit to see it.
Bear down not hard upon this fragile corpse
It has 10,000 years, said I
The firmament is not so old as I.
100,000 eyes have I
Of seasons past and days gone by
A wilderness of snow and leaves
Are settling, now, beside me and I yearn
to feel their arms.
So much lay hidden deep inside
Just stand up now and go as free.
A decision is the making of a universe.
100,000,000 now and 100,000,000 more
You cried to me to bare the shore
I’ve tamed the sea and braved the surf
I’ll not be dead when you are born
For I will rise
And, like you, shall seek abundantly
To forever search the skies.
How can this be, that I’ll be here
When you arrive
Is it so different in your eyes?
Nay, in truth, the answer is
An infinity am I
And a trillion thrice you’ve lived as well
‘Tho the secret is well kept
I’ll tell you now what truth foretells
An infinity am I
And from now until eternity -
An infinity are thee.
Copyright © 1999. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Duplication of this
poetry and/or art without permission of the author/artist is forbidden
under copyright law. Please ask permission if you wish to use for
non-commercial purposes
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