Category Archives: Water

Broken

I am a little broken here inside I’m not sure when it happened Or what the shattering implied I am part pure ambition And foolish, yearning pride But I’m also lost and broken So divided here inside I am a … Continue reading

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Regret

Within our town the shutters drawn Tell tales without our words No prescience could yet have barred Such crimes as here occurred Where once mere kindness might have lived Companion to our hearts Here now the winter’s deeper chill Ensures … Continue reading

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Bloomed – for Prompt 71 – Why Me?

I bloomed late And rather disconsolate Not inclined To intimacy or to Co-habitate But in those brittle years At any rate I rose my eyes above My fear and gazed I lived apart An owner of a fractured heart Too … Continue reading

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The Long Walk

The long walk that afternoon You arm strung casually across my shaking shoulders Our bodies close enough as though our heat could banish every cold This memory still resonates An intimacy made of time and lies that glowed like holy … Continue reading

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Lake House

Peaceful waters Cathedral halls I’ve been here before Sunlight flickers Shadows linger At the kitchen door Birds flutter In their group now Race across the water I am breathing Full awake now Sunshine’s daughter At the lake house All these … Continue reading

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Savage Hearts

  What made you think that I would be A chalice for your fears and dreams? Insanity flows far downstream Lost in complexity There is no place where we may be Our contradictions are our core Philosophers would love us … Continue reading

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Moon Kissed

  And the moon kissed the ocean The briefest flirtation Reflected light spilling Across the dark, rolling waves And the ocean blushed deep blue Drawn into moonly madness Tidal waves a siren call Answered in the night And the moon … Continue reading

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False – for Prompt 68 A Smile To Remember

The false smile of a sometime friend Just pretend Glittering eyes Be careful not to over-analyse A breathless kiss A broken game is all there this And how you beamed while smashing all my hopeless dreams A soul apart Behind … Continue reading

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Temporary Rubies

It is said of this river that long ago year It ran red with blood like a mad demon’s tears and the ice from the frost crystallised with the red like temporary rubies everywhere spread Beneath ravaged waters all of … Continue reading

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Approach

This approaches now by water Or by fire We may ride the wave triumphant Or expire We may warm our skin by sunshine Or we burn We are gone in one brief instant Or return This approaches like the dawn … Continue reading

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