The ghosts of yesterday 
Come to visit in vacant time
And I, alone, shall greet them.
Their host, I lead to rooms,
The pleasure domes
Of youth.

Where I call them back to life
One by one,
To propose a toast
To intimacies past.
Lost love will ring
Cathedral bells tonight.

The aftertaste is bittersweet, 
But unforgettable scents
Cling to my preserved guests
Like tobacco smells
On ...

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slipping in so quietly
with no coat to hang,
no boots stamp-stamping the ground,
I barely noticed until today,
this same brittle morning
you chose to announce your return.

a first mist asleep on car windows
rehearsing its winter's role,
as early signs of decay
crackle on earth's new carpet,
tired trees in muted shades
breathe damp infusions.

as autumn's shadows grow,
summer prepar...

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I'll let myself get carried away,
Watch me simply fall apart.
I'm the type who laughs all day
When people accidentally fart.

Why do I corpse so freely
Instead of being serious?
I can't explain this tendency,
To verge on the ridiculous.

Is it my nature? Who can tell?
This penchant to go overboard.
Like a lunatic in a laughter cell,
Madness may be my reward.

Will it end the way it ...

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Travel a little of the way with me
Stand by my side for just a while
Speak, open up our hearts together
Learn from our experiences of life.

Friends colour faded pictures called memories
Unravel the twisted tapestry of thought
Clear the mind of congestion and confusion
Bring life into perspective again.

Stay close to me, just long enough
To discover what we need to know
To be ready to...

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Instantly,
Your beauty overwhelms,
Gives notice of its intention
To dominate my dull world
With wild imaginings.

Indelibly,
It stamps a million portraits
Of your face, embedded
For eternity, in dreams
Of endless longing.

Intensely,
Passion poisons reason.
A fatal magnet of attraction
Pulls my vulnerability deep
Into the swallowing sea.

Inevitably,
The maelstrom of emotion
Ch...

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Turn and turn again, 
Spiral down deep,
Beneath the earth's own musty sheet.
Plough the frigid soil in vain,
For space to plant the root of sleep.

And twist more.
Your night mind,
A burning bulb of white light, here
When the nightmare in Nazi boots
Arrives accompanied by fear

That calmly rotates
Its captured corpse,
A hydra with mocking tongues to taste
The meat of your mugged tho...

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Yesterday I caught a glimpse

Of my fate, momentarily in the 

Embers of a dying flame that

Burned out and left - the wait

Hawk-heavy and hungry-eyed, it

Hovers; too close for comfort,

Ready to swoop, but not caring to,

Merely preferring to - wait

The devil is not knowing. An 

Obsessive companion, it stalks

One pace away, lurking in shadows.

Nuisance caller...

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Long Gone

Long gone, past, forgotten or lost,
Missing, awol, blown off course,
Bereft, abandoned, ground to dust,
Disconnected from the source,

That observes us grow, bigger than
We are; sap rising like a tower.
To breathe such exalted air can
Intoxicate, seduce, offer power,

Taken for granted, assumed to be
A rightful possession, always there
Later to discover it's temporary -
C...

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