Andrée's poems
By amlee
Swallowing Barbed Wire (2010)
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- 2264 reads
A Minor Adjustment
Gimme an inch...(reposted after tweak)
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- 374 reads
A Priesting at Westminster
Will you still love me tomorrow?
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- 449 reads
A Private Grief
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!
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Abbey Love
Romance among stones.
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- 990 reads
After the Rain
Let there be peace between us.
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- 377 reads
And then there was nothing
Curséd thing, love.
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Autumn Waits
Good things come to those who wait...
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Azalean Amorata
Assaulted and totally slaughtered.
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- 689 reads
Back into the silence
It's cold as ice...
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- 412 reads
Barefoot on Broken Glass
It's no walk in the park...
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- 523 reads
Beheld
Stalker? Viewpoint of the jilted, wilted unloved?
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Broken Record
This is a song that never ends....
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- 745 reads
Ceaseless Wanderer
Walking wounded.
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- 806 reads
Cherchez la femme
Chucky's in love??
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- 898 reads
Coming King?
Lament of the homeless. Advent 2012.
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- 711 reads
Coming Up Roses
I beg your pardon: I've always promised you a rose garden...
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- 413 reads
CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER
Man to man.
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- 400 reads
Debt (II)
Gangsta rapper version: No more Mrs Nice Guy.
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- 385 reads
End of day at South Ealing tube
On a platform bench...
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- 435 reads
Eye Spy
Eyeballing a kestrel...
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- 957 reads
In despair I ate all our tiger prawns
My sweet, indigestible you...
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- 443 reads
In the Silence Between Thoughts
Shhh...
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- 1719 reads
Moonlight in Roses
That's amore.
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- 520 reads
Pachydermy Pachanga
Rumble in the jungle...(written after riding an ellyfink in Nepal)
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- 501 reads
Ruined
Somebody's put Baby in a corner...
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- 1511 reads
Squandered
Waste of my time.
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The Invisible Woman
Eyes wide shut...
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- 437 reads
The Other Side of Our Unintended Actions
It's written in the stars...
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The World at Your Feet
Dreams of extreme travel...
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This quiet moment...
Shhhhh....
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- 395 reads
When We Are Old
When I'm sixty-four...
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- 420 reads
Ye Lai Xiang 夜来香 (As Night Falls Comes Sweet Fragrance)
Love storm in a tea cup... Ye Lai Xiang is Chinese for scented, night-blooming jasmine.
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- 863 reads
False Spring
After a winter of discontent, spring still chills.
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- 358 reads
Home Leave
Bidding prayer for a close friend, travelling home for the first time in years, for a family bereavement.
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- 411 reads
Killing Time
Devouring my man.
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LEAP
Jenny's Leap. A spot at Lee Abbey, Devon, when love ran dry.
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- 923 reads
Love on a Limb
you and me lover sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
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- 1030 reads
Swallowing Barbed Wire
Marking a year of flying solo.
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Honey You're Home!
Come and get me already.
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- 1129 reads
Sleeping in rollers
Life as single lane traffic?
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Mrs Jones regrets
Goodbye and goodnight!
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Transcendance
Sequel piece to a previous poem "Beheld" - a tale of reconciliation.
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Too Old For Ecstasy, Too Young For Lawn Bowls
I'm at that interesting age when.....
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No sky is big enough
This, inspired by looking out of my airplane window tonight at banks of sunset clouds.....
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What remains
Lady sings the blues....
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Out of Ashes
After a long Death, Rebirth.
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Six Months
Separation Anxiety
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Six
Repost: I've turned my latest poem "Six Months" into a song - sing it a whole lotta country, and a little bit rock 'n roll! Yee-ha.
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- 1197 reads
Waiting
The suspense is killing me.
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If only the rain would come
Extension of previous poem "Waiting".
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Feasting Among Stones
Manna for the hungry.
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Working Girl
It's all smoke and mirrors.
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- 1060 reads
Million Dollar Baby
She's one in a million.
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- 596 reads
Light Eater
Reworked version. Hopefully improved.
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The Haunting of Jackals
Where the wild things are...
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Object of none's affection
Reworked, retitled, resubmitted.
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Hippolyta Defeated (re-post)
actually Hippolyta Regained...
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The Fall of Peonies
Tempus fugit.
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Iberian Rhapsody
A load of bull.
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Next to Nothin' (country n western song!)
erm... Wrote a Country 'n Western song, it seems. Sing it with a yee-hah in your throat...
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- 639 reads
MORNING REGRETS
The rain in Spain hammered it down last night.
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Sitting in the dark
Night vision.
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Sitting in the dark (rewrite)
Rewritten version.
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Someone To Watch Over Me
Dedicated to Street Pastors outside nightclubs
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Time Travellers
Remembering loved ones.
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Waiting for Yule
how many more sleeps?
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Anchored
Do you recall, as I our solo sailing days the drifting, roaming aimless untethered, unobliged, clutching supposed liberties in our nuances indulging...
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Regarding Robin
Tired of winter.
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Still Life
Dead and loving it?
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Sleeping Like a Cow
Bovine suspension.
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The Hitching Post
Don't ask me; and I won't ask you.
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In My Father's Eyes
I am more than a spark ignition of momentary vim folly from midsummer's lark detritus of a dilettante whim More than a temporary burst or burn of...
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- 380 reads
What Lies Beneath
Oh this quiet, unquiet burn this ravenous rage within that cannot rest, relent till all that is life and laughter the larger and lesser concerns is...
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Pillow Love Song
Soft, soft lay you by me awhile I'd smooth fierce furrows upon your brow press cool palms to loving purge as inner demons rage and surge Close, close...
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Unbounded
The day will come when you and I make dust clouds bloom behind as we escape towards sunrise Hair streaming against screaming zephyrs, sun blasted...
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Damsel in Distress
Pray pity, dream lover come take me away from left brainéd morons who lean in on my frayed jagged edges of reason they've gathered to spill my blood...
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Downpour
This incessant rain disdaining all plaintive entreaty won't sweetly halt in its tracks its attacks on the human heart like darts are just too hard to...
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Getting Away With Murder
Break my heart, go ahead shatter me like glass I'm see through to you anyway Trample on me, won't you I'm numb, dumb broad pummel pillow for you any...
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Corn Past Its Prime
Harken, pray, my love, my darling Tarry not so very long When winter's spite might vain o'ertake us and I've lost my summer's song Braid my locks...
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Woolly Mammoth Heart
My heart is like a red ball of wool and you in feline frenzy have worried it unravelled me, so my blood guts spilled, hot and heaving upon the...
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Fall in Scargill
Faith ascends as York mists descend brooding Breath heavy hovered upon faltering footfall in stony echoes shredded souls riven and rising to crook...
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- 690 reads
Coming Home
Wandering Soul, I thought you sought nothing but high adventure. Till I find the trail of empty nests that at your behest, you left behind. In the...
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- 380 reads
Descent
She roars in silence, shrieking rainbows across dozing skies startled fish belly white from daybreak. Creatures half awakened, unexpectant of...
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The Boy in the Window
I saw him the boy in the window framed floor to ceiling display of distress to the world. Crooked deep in thought brow broken over his mobile I...
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Restless
As sand that shifts undulates underfoot that whips, gashes face till bloody channels open for glass hard granules to sear, seep into every crevice of...
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- 550 reads
Lying Under Cloud Cover
We lie under cloud cover deceptive wrapped in deep cloak of night secretly counting losses openly clocking late planes blinking towards a distant...
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Saved by Noodles
Lowering my lashes I escaped the lance the near wounding of your ranging glance. Half blushed, half crushed by your persistent penetration of my weak...
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Where Red Kites Dance
O sing me a song of high soaring of rarified air brushing cheeks the gushed, rushing rendering vanished, banish last traces and remnants of sleep...
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Outsider
I sit amongst you taut with pretend informality soaking up the same cold air watching the same dust float as iced specks caught in the headlamp of...
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- 1093 reads
Thorns
Can we sing of our injuries of arrows borne in our hearts when from dreams we are wrenched and when loved ones depart Can we laud a saint's calling...
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- 763 reads
Pound Shop
Watery sun give for heartless moon twixt their rise and fall plod we night till noon Blood brothers brew mercury in our veins my back watching yours...
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- 389 reads
Resignation
It hovered upon his lips, a sentiment that somehow could not take shape: like undecided cloud formation, loose sensations sifting in the wind. Would...
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- 426 reads
An Expectation of Roses
'Neath sizzling sunbeams of Earth renewed Tight blossoms stir, their sleep eschewed As amorous coo of paired courting fowl The call to life is for...
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- 528 reads
Sacred Imprint
These waiting hills empty now but for the shriek of chill winds this bleakness of dung brown Wicklow rock undulating heavy with the weight of ancient...
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Woman at the Well
She waits, as the others who throb at the thrill shed their spill of grateful tears at the shrine of their inspiring She was only there enquiring...
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- 671 reads
Good Wood
Warm wind blows gathering sparkling sand from desert dunes undulating endless unto horizons beyond comprehension Sizzled specks swirl in whistling...
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- 436 reads
Fear of Falling
Dare you stand toe-edged above eternal drop poised perfection as frozen fire crown centred to heaven soles glued to grassy earth a rod of steel sure...
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- 711 reads
Memories of Our Unholiday
Where else could we worship but in chapels of rippling redwood heaven bound shafts, quiescent lifting our unquenchable praise of awe? Which bed could...
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- 755 reads
While You Were Sleeping
Did you know, that while you were sleeping in fields of blue heaven, tiny bells tolled and laughed you a lullaby. In your soft slumber upon May's...
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- 617 reads
VOID
Still when slowed time ticks when fallow future sleeps like the dead and unborn blossoms wait wakeful in their animated burial Stay the course of...
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- 708 reads
Stormy Love Affair
How the evening air hangs heavy but I twinkle fairy light, watch the world as it runs for cover I hide under cloak of night Folks huddle for summer's...
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- 500 reads
And Here Comes the Rain
At last air can no longer hold its breath no longer hover like meniscus on a scum-green summer's lake where pondskaters dance trip on tippy toes for...
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- 461 reads
Autumn Appassionata
How so charged were we as we languid lay, twinned hidden, heady lightning bolts leapt to life, unspoken sparked to canter chrysanthemum clouds then...
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- 443 reads
BENCHED
Girl Friday, fitful slumbered crumpled upon hard bed of ashen timber angular unslept against memories etched into the grain hollow distant laughter...
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- 429 reads
Waxing Lyrical
Old gold in velvet night horn of mystery, half smile of winking Cheshire Cat lying low in wait, prance dancing, to pounce on thumping lovers' hearts...
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- 574 reads
Should Dreams Unbidden Come
How would you stop dreams should dreams unbidden come? How do you stem waves? watery graves, wide-mouthed devour full forced, intentioned upon...
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- 450 reads
Fearless
I watch you brink trembled tingling hackles raised in contemplation of abyss I smell you terror scented as frozen slime, crawl frigid limbs in lofty...
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- 359 reads
Kissing Ice At Dawn
Miffed moor hens dip slip on stillborn lake stumbling skaters hot chasing early squirm of an icy worm only to pitiful peck naught but mirrored beaks...
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- 401 reads
Lady in Waiting
Come not only when I ask not when it's a task but because you must worship the very dust I walk on ... Come not if you're compelled but by your own...
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Bruit Blanc
I am seashell curling infinitely inward upon myself, mother of pearl sheen beneath frosting gleam of a heartless Perigee moon. And I hum in wretched...
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Patch
My name is Patch. I like to latch onto trees, or your leg if I please. Sometimes I fling, full-bodied, to cling on a lamp post like a white ghost at...
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- 414 reads
Edge People
Edge people stand outside looking in having been inside looking out Edge people don't like boxes to tick to lock to file and block from memory Edge...
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- 569 reads
All My Saturdays
How I loathe bright mornings rude elbowing in on my long bad Friday nights sunny-side-uppety blinders sneaking through the pane of my solitary...
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- 986 reads
Dead Beats
The earth shakes each time I'd awakened to sweep sleep from your eyes with a long distance kiss hello but instead of blissed sweet nothing you reply...
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- 327 reads
Bitter Tea and No Roses
Dare I couch myself in a sheesham coffin, lie stone heavy with my spine hard upon ancient bare boards, scarcely breathe a sigh. While above me, you...
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- 679 reads
Famine
So this is famine. Yellow sun a dull, drab drench upon fields of indifferent gold. Silvery moonbeams richochet off brittled leaves falling...
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- 1097 reads
The Distance of Widows
We are left, licorice women allsorts: Unwilling bittersweets, good wives and better sports, who unwitting greet the pain game in our lives. Not just...
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Phantom Stardust
Without trace, or hint of trail, she assails your dreams, soft invades your lonesome planet... Butterfly kisses blown across galaxies, flown through...
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- 334 reads
Ice Ice Baby
In Reykjavik it's raining gales howling black and blue blown cobwebs from our dreaming the threads twixt me and you In Eglissta∂ir it's drizzling sky...
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- 734 reads
Saturday Rumble
Friday moon, sharp hung with September's knife edge upon mellowed memories of receding rubied wines; finally surrenders to oblivion of ink-bled night...
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- 344 reads
Importunata
We study each other a whispered kiss apart, with eyes hard-glazed like cats: yours an amber tiger's pounce soft landing upon fluffed pillows beneath...
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- 313 reads
Death by Pizza
You do not ply me with champagne that tickles. Nor choice oyster morsels that soft slipping trickle. But dangle to entangle, a dread bready carrot to...
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- 1154 reads
Take a Damp Cloth, and Wipe
Take a damp cloth, and wipe. Baby mush and toddler goo Infant generated guilty mucky moo. Take a damp cloth, and wipe. Blackboard beatings to within...
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- 636 reads
Yesterday's Flowers
How sweet it was to sip a yellow chalice of sunshine... I still lick my lips recalling that draught of liquid loving cup glowing under our chins; how...
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- 741 reads
Fowl Play
Magpies cry mid moonless night till slumber fumbles and dreams take flight Sparrows narrow their sightless gaze sing soulless ditties of trapped city...
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- 781 reads
Silent Kill
Darkest eyes in blackest night Daggered irony to quench her light Still her breast with thorny heart Crush all hope before it starts Stem her words...
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- 362 reads
In the Night
Who knows how, in the night, while Super Moon strains, chalk-carpeted deep in weeping autumn mists: might a million golden butterflies voiceless...
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- 402 reads
Desert Eyes
Swallow me whole engulf me with your hungered gaze your azured almonds ablaze with a million Saharan fires wordless interrogate me through sand-laden...
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- 337 reads
Afar
AFAR How odd to be rising sun to your settling moon Hung upsidedown, juxtaposed Me, the blue dot at 7 o’clock on Google map to your 2 o’clock, just...
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- 166 reads