Tag Archives: lost love

Reaching for Photo Challenge 28 Climbing the Walls

I can hear you Dear departed summer boy You’re trickling up and down these walls With every jagged breath My wretched heart calls And I’m floating Not afraid that I may fall I can touch you Ephemeral as summer rain … Continue reading

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Heaviness of Air

He felt the heaviness of air Bearing down much more than gravity Elusive oppression stifling Upon his shoulders as a weight Waiting a moment on the stair Remembering light, a lover’s eyes So many years, a century As finer feelings … Continue reading

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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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Bad For You

You had to go there didn’t you? You had to see this story through You had to follow on a glance And build your world on circumstance You had to wonder at a smile You lingered there a little while … 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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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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Long Gone

Across the canal we ran I loved you then So young and so pure I true believed We would perfect endure My heart burst open Walking hand in hand Certain you were mine And that this beauty Would not fall … Continue reading

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This Time for Prompt 64 Ya’aburnee

This time night falls just as a shroud and all the stars here gathered hide behind a cloud burning endlessly You bury me this time This time you hear my brittle voice The illness has its way We have such … Continue reading

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