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Wedding Day
Stood alone
grounded by grey rock
papoosed tight in your arms
an altar before the Atlantic
commanding, tumulus ocean
serves as our priest
Two shells
brought from sandy shelter
where we consummated our love
gives us two rings to keep
fraught, fragile commitment
regardless of reality
You whisper
echoed by breaking wave
“Just you and me against the world...
Sunday 28th October 2012 9:35 am
The Cottage
Completely captive, liberated and free
Thick damp walls are constraining me
Shrouding, chilling my pale virgin skin
I kneel at the hearth’s grey altar within
black blood of ghosts run down set stone
Displaying anger against intrusion below
As one of them passes by from the past
“Do you like living with me?” you ask
Simple domesticity lies softly at hand
...
Sunday 21st October 2012 9:49 am
Crossing
Paralysed, struck flat on my back
Irish sea sprays up a malady
leaches through impervious skin
And drifts my reliant apathy
Slow boat rocks, judders beneath
Bearing to shadowed grey land
Clouds reach down tentatively
Brushing the back of my hand
Far away, two children mourn
Loss of a mother who slips
Away with waves to another love
Another time, where...
Sunday 14th October 2012 8:42 am
Reality Check
Amongst the crowd
She never noticed me
Not one glance
But she was all I could see
It seemed unreal
Not quite right
That she was there
She’s your wife
My dreams crushed
My heart torn
I slip away
Irrelevant and small
Amongst the crowd
She never noticed me
Not one glance
But she was all I could see
© Katypoetess 2012
Sunday 7th October 2012 9:42 am
Crossroads - my National Poetry Day piece
I feel like I'm at a crossroads,
a path I do not know.
The future's looking complex as a vortex
as I continue to grow.
Do I wait in frantic futility
brazenly biting my lip and learning humility?
I see you stuck in Stockholm
waiting for the day that you finally come home.
Destined for greatness
yet thwarted by gravity and quicksand
...
Friday 5th October 2012 8:29 pm
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