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True Love
Have I loved?
Yes, on the spectrum,
towards the sacrificial side.
Silencing my soul,
losing my identiy.
Endless nights
crying myself to sleep.
I sometimes think I would have
preferred an easy love
bouquets of rainbow colored daisies,
sparkling teeth,
a passionate love,
French kisses in Rome,
ruffled sheets,
a forever love,
hugs, holding hands,
finishing each other's sentences...
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Tuesday 15th January 2019 12:19 pm
Poetry Is For Cowards
She says that poetry is for cowards…
…as though in wanting to capture in five minutes,
in a mere thirty lines,
in its purest distillation the essence of
that which lasts for hours, days,
that which is heavy
with the gravity of a lifetime…
…as though this is not a desire
worthy of the more intrepid of nerve
(like her, I assume she means,
like her and...
Friday 16th December 2011 2:38 pm
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