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July Collage Poem: Promised and Forlorn
A deepening metal slashes dust
Sentenced to death youth’s dream that may one day
seize the day
A clamped unicycle soaked with
the rain of callous words.
Crushed by hobnail boots
Bags packed inside my head
going round the wall of death
Love as Morse Code; living in different postcodes
The rain of callous words
and anguished flowers fading
in the ...
Friday 14th July 2023 11:27 am
A Marriage of Ghosts - July 2018 Collage Poem
Aqueous humour's not very funny
Neither is how easily we forget
The story of each other's pain
Arranged marriages of spirits and the
remnants of deep pain
The sky is a plush blue velvet
Its papery clouds are upon it
As if they are lace - the
Dew glistens on the grass
Like numerous bright eyes looking
Up at the sky
The wrong arrangement can be d...
Monday 9th July 2018 10:34 pm
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