Category: Poetry
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Secret Still
I vouchsafed a secret Held my breath for a time Perhaps our hearts would meet And she would tell me mine She made me promise Her word she would keep She said she’d be silent Even whilst asleep She waited for a moment And told all in all to all To friends […]
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Breathe
Under the shadow of a wing I woke blinking at the light And now that dark turns to night I fear I will disappear again. And I will catch my breath and hold it Until I know there is no more breath Yet another will hold it for me Until we both breathe again.
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Never Unknown Again
You know I’m staring at you Though you won’t look at me Your head is bowed low Over Candy Crush or TV I can wait with my empty cup You’ll remember, you’ll see You’ll bob your head up And stare full back at me And when our eyes meet yet again We’ll create our own […]
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The Gift
How could I understand When it left my hand That heavy burden, now lightly lost Had released all and every cost? The gift then revealed itself to me.. I am a constant escapee I am a freedom loving revolutionary I am the silent conspiracy I am the light to a world of misery
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The Bitter Sea
Mine is a lost soul that swims in a bitter sea Overlayed and swamped by waves of jealousy Caught and held under by a rising tide of night At the mercy of winds of animosity Until I lose my strength and drown ashore Foundered now ocean’s false martyr Suns may rise, storms may fall A light shower washes […]
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Beyond The Steps
There must be another world beyond the steps One where people descend to disappear Or another from which they’ve made the climb From this temporal world to another one In the meantime I watch them sit And shuffle in their place until settled And wait as they forget all breath Until they are called back again Perhaps […]
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Joy
Joy is such a bastard You never know it’s there Till it sneaks up on you And clouts you unawares. Go and ignore the bastard Bloody well tell it to go away Too bad now you noticed It will settle in and stay
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The Forgotten Tree
It seems to have fallen upon me To be the one that assembles a tree From its scattered limbs and leaves Broken trunk, bark and branches And like a god I start To take piece and part Aligned to my careful plan I build span by span But when I look at my space Bark […]
Andrew James Whalan 