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Forgotten Afternoons
Sweet forgotten afternoons You don’t recall But pressed within my memory book I see them all The way the light fell Through the leaves Upon your hair And the messy, noisy children Running everywhere And how you’d say “This season … Continue reading
Summer Sea Memory
Flickering like old movies On wartime movie screens Summer sea memory Greets me In a waking dream Part beautiful and part dread It’s nothing like it seems Summer sea memory Haunts me In a waking dream Pinned like butterflies shivering … Continue reading
Toast
We shall drink to the days gone by Toast the memories washing over us Those we embrace And those we deny We shall drink to the days gone by We shall sing till our hearts can live Toast to the … Continue reading
China
Our china has broken Like all our days Little pieces on the floor Just as the confetti spilled At celebrations long ago Too long ago Our china has split apart A testament to cracks Within the foundation Of a love … Continue reading
Alone
I have been alone so long Visiting those parks where as children we so freely played As evening comes the moon is no comfort and none of these creeping fears may be allayed I’ve even fallen at the chairs where … Continue reading
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City
The rush of silver The city at night I remember you laughing, calling my name We were dancing in the early hours like children So young And I thought this would last forever or at least till the morning and … Continue reading
Desolate Ones
We are the desolate ones Left behind as debris We cling to walls Where all is peeling, peeling away We haunt such hallways As strangers never seek to walk In empty rooms we are ghosts Left only now To haunt … Continue reading
Deep Silence
This deep silence of morning Starless sky before dawn breaks Blanketed in dark and calm An island to myself I seek a comfort long forgotten In the weave of black and grey Dreams adrift and quickly floating Lover’s kiss a … Continue reading
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
10 Poems in 20 Minutes
1 Still free-floating from that star sprinkled night This morning in a café I saw the face of God on a colourful postcard He was winking 2 Counting the coins before you throw them into this gilded wishing well A … Continue reading
