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A franchise of my soul
I felt my life diminished The smallest of my dreams, suppressed, There before me stood a man of conviction assuring me I need not feel...
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Criticism of this poet by a friend
My friend, the poet, is a fraud (He's also intellectually flawed), He strings together, badly, I'm afraid. Words without rhyme, their...
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The Hairdressers Tale
She became a woman today Her marriage vows have fallen away. As yellowing leaves of an autumnal tree. All her hurt and shame She knows...
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Anxiety
The lady in a long pink fluffy coat Over a pink turtle-neck sweater, Was suffering, Suffering invisibly and openly, Constantly, she...
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Midnight Moonlight Lady
It's a cold winter's night That chills to the core. The Midnight Moonlight Lady Knows just how to score She will keep her men warm. When...
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The Minder
“John, put those back” “We don't need them.“ “No, John, we don't need those either” “Come on.” "If we’re not careful, we'll be here all...
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Will you hold me?
Will you come and meet me? When I get to heaven, Will you come and find me? I’m afraid to go But I know you’re there. Will you come and...
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Innocence Dies
Tenth floor She glided Down, not up, Until she landed Onto a mortuary slab, It had shamed her. It had shamed her life, Yet those that...
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Stay with me
Child without influence Conceived lacking counsel Child of slender chance Cry, cry, cry until This silent life, held in hand, is yours To...
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Muted World
Sounds lost, unheard, in muted world, Unceremoniously unplugged. A less audible sense I live in insignificance. I once thrived on,...
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One, Two, Three, More
One, Two, Three, More, Extended version I, as one. Considered prospective days of love; done. Then we met soon we were entwined as one,...
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Election prelude
Old-world women gossip Disgorging air and candy floss, Talking, talking, talking Just trumpery coming across, Irrational chatter Mindless...
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No more the fool
We've both travelled far We've journeyed long, You've whistled your tune I've sung your song, I've listened intently, Attended when...
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Born to Die
Waves roll slowly, onto an empty shore, wash clean the pebbles and the sand, whilst white foam bubbles, mark an evaporating monument to...
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Running scared little maiden
Why are you running scared little maiden? Why do you hide amongst the trees? Do you believe your dreams are in tatters? And that you’ve...
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Paint life as a surrealist expression
The Surrealist brushes a green day A pink sun hangs in a star-studded rainbow sky. A nude autumnal tree awaits the commencement of...
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The Mysterious Letter
Sam quietly opened the study door. Her stepfather was standing by his desk, Rapt by a letter from the morning post Looking near comically...
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Our love has a DVT
I thought we would be better, together, forever yet still, there’s no thrill We overlooked each other I thought I’d be a happy chappy,...
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Transit to a poet.
Summer morning, Nineteen Seventy, Field Study, Miss Skipworth's junior third, Unimpressive rural location But silently, we listened,...
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Ode to Linda G
Caverstede Road nursery, our Eden Starting out together like Eve plus one. You were the flaxen-haired Aphrodite I hoped to be Adonis,...
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