Poems
By Shieldsley
My poems
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The Traveller
Glint with lonely light glowering through emptiness Smile at faded past receding into photographic stillness Cry at emerald jewel floating lost somewhere far away
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Close the blinds
He watches as the blind descends, shutting out the street The light claws at the dark fabric, noise hurls itself at the window But falls back senseless and fluttering
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Worulde
Crimson balloon hovers motionlessly over icy pyramids As stars shimmer in the blank eternity of sleep Bluish, harsh light Strands of hair forever rotate over amorphous whiteness
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Leaving Beechwood
They left me standing With the wind whipping the fields Amd tyres crunching on gravel Left in those long, yellow corridors Where metal clashed on metal Voices echoed distantly
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The Comet
I peered into the night, the star-encrusted dark And around me the land lay enshrouded in mist Frost glistened coldly. reflecting the spark Of icy...
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Haze in the Valley
Once I returned to this the place of my youth Dusty, wind-blown, teenagers dangled legs over unfinished walls Wincing at the nicotine-edged tang of...
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Summer Spectacular
I wish we could have seen the fireworks We heard their thump, the crackling hiss As their fragments landed on the roof above us But only the crowd...
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