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Arthur Miller

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• About Marilyn Monroe, by her ex-husband, Arthur Miller: “To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.”

Short Poems by Shirley Ballard

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BONANZA — “Cutthroat Junction” Episode 26 — Pictured: (l-r) — Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank

“Ruthless Hearts”

little by little

we learn to love

to give and take

from someone dear

then time takes over

and washes the colors away

little by little

we learn to hate

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“Each Day”

each day we’re intimate with it

it caresses our hair

and face like a lover

but it’s not…

and we have to live with it

it’s called air

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“The Special Drawer”

the drawer was filled

with odd bits

parts of old theatre tickets

one stained with red wine drops

another with mini notes

time and locations and love

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“Emptiness”

life feels incomplete…

a task waiting to be done.

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“Waiting For Dark”

so I can see

how for granted

do we take eyes

for granted…

don’t take it away

don’t lose it

to the dark

Shirley Ballard

86 yrs. Actress

(Miss Calif. 1944)

http://www.misscalifornia.org/cbSite/cbActive/cbFormers.html

“Just A Day” by Shirley Ballard

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an early morning sunrise

touching the dew

on a sleeping city

making it sparkle golden…

slowly rising from the east

until its full glory

marks midday.

crossing the sky

it makes its way west

before it shares its splendor

sinking below the ocean’s greedy arms

but not without a final gift

of intense molten gold

before vanishing

in the black sea of the west

until tomorrow.

Shirley Ballard

http://www.misscalifornia.org/cbSite/cbActive/cbFormers.html

(86yrs.  Miss. CA. 1944, actress)

Foto by L. K. Thayer

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