Cherry

Dog whisperer

sometimes you’re stared at on end, your guests don’t move, don’t bark

When The Music Stops

The unkindest cut of all.
Cherry

Thursday Sonnet: Storm

Because the storm of love is raging On a chest too young to claim It has weathered storm and rain I build a house and, in it, staging Pantomimes of rigid bliss, I tell myself and tell myself

I Can Recall

There are something you just don't want to forget, because memories are all that's left at the end of the day! (-;

Men would quake in their opium hearts

Men would quake in their opium hearts to meet A beauty in whose pleasing narcotic glance All the spheres of the primate’s earth beguile And in who’s still doe like goddess graces dance.

The cradle of the chosen!

Touch, how“plainly the mountains sit In a horseshoe sleigh of snow Smell, how” oblivion reverberates, in it? When pragmatic sluice wheels blow... Hear, how” raucous the rooks, festoon

O” child of mine grow no-older

Place your head upon my shoulder O” child of mine grow no-older. Less life’s platitudes make you stronger. Stay with me a little longer! Misfortune” rings her lowly bell

Like a little pot of gold

If beauty could let” her love to me” Like the white buds on a magnolia tree What a souls tapestry there would be What a freedom in my breast for thee Could I in truth set wing flung free...

The Old Couple

You slipped, darling. But young arms kindly returned you, terrified. I grip your hand to steady you, shaking. We return to our familiar steps, slower still.

Sometimes

Sometimes the world seems monochrome, like an endless corridor of televisions untuned, as though someone pulled the plug and drained away all colour. Then, in moments like these,

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