Poetry by Peter D. Orr

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Unbend My Heart
Overcast
Whispers
Aurora's Path
The Oak
Dismissed
The Wanderer
The Wind O' Pain
Shout
Subscribe
Talking Flowers
Life's Fluidity Frozen
Beyond the Shadow
Beyond Touch
The Heroic Flaw
Over Manhattan
A Higher Plane
Pinwheel-White
Chamonix
Time Eternal
A Tap on the Shoulder
Engagement & Resignation
The Rest

Overcast                                                            

 Once a teardrop falls

 We may wipe it from our cheek

 But it can never retreat.

 For every one that trickles down

 On the outside

 Two reside

 Within

 As shadow and memory...

             One the weight of experience

             The other the substance of insight.

  If there are no shadows on a cloudy day

  Please will someone explain the inner shadow

  Of an overcast heart?