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As the Lights Dim and Die
POETRY: On my mother’s peaceful final hours.
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Somebody’s Stolen the Moon
POETRY: America darkly metamorphoses, and the Me is looming close
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The Wedding Poem
Tongue-tied and need to say something at a wedding? Here’s some sparkle to sprinkle on your speech.
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Flesh Within
LOVE POEM #3: Frustration. Barriers. Desire.
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On The Struggle Of A Poetry Grump When Confronted With Free Verse That Isn’t
Scuffling with poetry that fails to resonate, blooms and dies. Parched flowers in the dark.
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Seraphim
LOVE POEM #2: The heavenly choir. Peacefully blessed. Simple desire in an infinite cosmos.
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Hourglass Sand
POETRY: Cause and consequences, the concertina of time, human failings.
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Buzzer’s Call
Mum died. I stay busy, yes-yes I’m OK, OK, I’m fine. But Hamlet broods. Grief grows like ivy – delicate, lingering, and rooted in these three poems. On…
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Oversense
LOVE POEM #1: Rawness. Intensity. Yearning.
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