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    Dread

    The dead beat of leaden feet,
    tread the dread way.

    The aisles where strangers meet,
    lead the path,
    to the checkout's trap
    and my dismay.

    Rising bile chokes panic's first bite,
    to utter the speech expected,
    that ceremony agonising,
    when I can only think of flight.

    October 2016
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    The Stream of Time

    I am driving by,
    in this moment,
    this heartbeat.

    Drifting past houses,
    haunted with
    sepia flickered clips,
    some resolute,
    defying fate's tide,
    others a distant forgetting,
    devoured by years.

    This day's reminiscing,
    is for the memories of friends,
    that like spiralling leaves,
    fell into the stream of time,
    carried to unreachable shores,
    to other worlds.

    May 2016
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    Of Aging

    The new intrudes
    upon my reverie,
    the familiar crowded out,
    in a wilderness of strange.

    Known faces fade
    through blurred lifetimes,
    and worn out used to be's,
    the once treasured
    sleeps beneath dust.

    While memories gather
    in the dead ends of solitude,
    where the careless
    youth lingers still,
    frittering those long
    summers now ripe for regret.

    And all the youless days,
    that stretch to bleak horizons,
    are marked by faceless clocks,
    ticking away each breath.

    April 2015
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    Swan Lake

    She is splendour,
    gliding galleon-like,
    the curve of whiteness,
    smooth on silver waters,
    where the sun hides
    his face in shame,
    and the willows arch
    their necks in wonder.

    The creator knew no restraint,
    when he fashioned her,
    from the stars that
    explode in her wake;
    and tossing her head,
    in elegant grace,
    half turns, and beholds a
    hint of beauty's mirrored face.

    July 2012
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    Re: Some of my poetry

    Thank you for sharing these.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Catkins View Post
    Thank you for sharing these.
    You're very welcome Catkins.
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    Loss

    Restless swallows
    skimmed ruffled lakes,
    riding the last breaths
    of summer beneath
    their dipping wings.

    A summer that
    breathed as you,
    you who were emerald
    trees turned gold,
    gold to red to black,
    the black of mourning,
    and this terrible winter's chill.

    August 2016

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    Gartree

    I gobble you up,
    bad apples feed
    these entrails.

    You are all
    broken toys,
    flotsam on society's
    gushing wounds.

    Your misery,
    crammed into my blocks
    of time-watching banality.

    Locked up hearts
    beat away the days,
    your hope strung up,
    on my razor wire's iron teeth.

    Lights out,
    the lights of your
    ended lives,
    constricted in the noose
    of my towering walls,
    walls that stretch
    to the heavens,
    and way down to hell,
    to the unwashed floor
    of your shrinking cell.

    September 2016

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    National Lottery

    The dull ache of Monday,
    drifts to Friday's hope,
    on to Saturday's salvation,
    and the six numbered sanctuary,
    the numbers to keep
    his neck from the rope.

    No more high rise concrete boxes,
    or sink estate misery,
    nor the loan shark knocking
    before he's out of bed,
    his ticket the route
    away from this dread.

    Away from the existence
    of futureless hell,
    from the druggies that
    crowd a graffitied stairwell,
    the TV is on, the wheel spins,
    he begs this time, this time he wins.

    July 2016
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    Road Kill

    You were someone's
    light in the morning.

    Someone's warm nuzzle,
    fallen beneath the
    clank of speeding iron.

    Your dying,
    the squeal of hot rubber.

    Bearing down

    to crush a love,
    a love purring in the
    laps of the bereft.

    In now cold firesides,
    and saucers of milk,
    untouched.

    October 2015
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