Poetry by Peter D. Orr

 

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Unbend My Heart
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Aurora's Path
The Oak
Dismissed
The Wanderer
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Life's Fluidity Frozen
Beyond the Shadow
Beyond Touch
The Heroic Flaw
Over Manhattan
A Higher Plane
Pinwheel-White
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Time Eternal
A Tap on the Shoulder
Engagement & Resignation
The Rest

The Rest

Slowly I fade into the night

Riding a breath-drawn chariot

Upon an evening sky, clear and bright.

 

My heart beats out

The cadence of the passing scene

In a place beyond human time and means.

 

To sleep

Is to rest upon unbounded horizons

(of activity).