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Monsoon

Outside the ivory step My tuskless elephant wheezes and pours golden wine from her back. I must arrest the rain: for she is slowly drowning.

Witch Craft

the difficult craft
Cherry

Mirrorball

Who's the fairest of them all?

The ocean that's known as emotion

Far down the road from happiness There lies a deep dark ocean Which people have come to love &;amp; hate Its name, they call it emotion The waves...

Decision

The only thing I've dreaded Is that fate be rested in my hands Like a sword given to a Kight To kill a dragon &;amp; free the land I cannot make...

At night

for Dan

Through a glass

Some nameless voices from a conflict

Burning the Clocks

We chase time through half-lit steets and play catch up by a sludge black sea where it waits, glowing bright in the face of its funeral pyre. Time is...

Small Absences

The small absences pierce the deepest. A couple's casual public caress. The lover's right of touch. The waking to an empty bed. The bathroom clear of...

Lazy Summer Days

A poem about the hedgerows and meadows in an English summer.

Memories of the Night

All the magic and wonder of a first date, and then some.

Wiped Out In One Shot

Lacking sence, overflowing with pointless detail and driven by unsetteling sensations...must be a nightmare.

if i could speaks words...

emotional overflow...

Dressing up

At school I dress up in my own skin- wrap up warm, enfolded in me, another me who doesn't feel the pull.

Pine

Completely, the night is metaphorical for my own pine: this smooth peach poison seeps into my voice, my actions, and I am over-full, brimming with...

The Lead Story

a poem for CyberScribes and Writers from Northern Ireland

B. To N.

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