Tag: A Handful of Words
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The Passage of Time
Form: 7 lines freeverse Echoes of living dance with dispersing seedsin a discarded kitchen with no one to feedwhile forgotten dreams spin on a spider’s weband the gentleman cat has made his own wayfor his people have gone leaving the wild grasses to growwhere linen sheets once twerked with the breezeon an old washing line…
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A Glimpse of Beltane
Form: List Poem As the breeze cools a summer’s day, as woolly clouds mingle in the skyAs the trees glisten in the evening sun, as the birds gather in songAs the scent of charcoal curls through the air, as the night beckons us inAs cups chatter with champagne flutes, as cake tastes better with teaAs…
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All I Have to Do
In the silken silence of a sultry evening when thoughts drift in the flames of a fire pit to times long ago the tears of tonight remember the dance of the butterfly is over and the flower-filled meadows no longer play a love song for me…
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Not Quite as Planned
Maths ‘O’ Level….1981….algebra not strong enough Driving test….1984……need for less speed Bike test…….1986……. nailed it…
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Shards of Memory
It was a cold Thursday night when my thoughts crashed out of my head. He listened as we sat drinking milky coffee in the dark…
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That Day
Something was weighing on her mind that day when I asked her how she was doing as I came in from work and the sweet natured girl I knew with her smile of delight just wasn’t there…
A Garret Poet 