Category: Poetry
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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 […]
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Grace
Grace visited silently Grace called you gently But you shouted impatiently And angrily sent grace away. Graceless your life stands still Falsely happy with its fill Neither giving nor receiving Living a life quickly receding Grace though sent away Still waits night and day In patience and with forbearance To provide hope and love in abundance. […]
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Catching Shadows Before They Fall
It’s not my failing eyesight, To see dusk not daylight, And see the dawn before night, To live in a world of half light. Yet sometimes I feel lost Pressed in by a moving forest Of those taller than me Whose shadows they can’t see. Looking through that half darkness Listening to what isn’t said […]
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The past is another country
I’d like to wander back Return to where I was before Retrace that same track Gain my lost promise once more Now settled I’d stay there Finally secure, stable and free Hereafter happy without a care A past forever just for me But when I return to the past I’m… Seeing faces half familiar (I […]
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The Past is a Different Country
I’d like to wander back Return to where I was before Retrace that same track Gain my lost promise once more Now settled I’d stay there Finally secure, stable and free Hereafter happy without a care A past forever just for me But when I return to the past I’m… Seeing faces half familiar (I […]
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The Gentle Heart
I heard those words spoken From a pure and gentle heart Once riven almost torn apart And now complete, healed and unbroken. I heard not how your heart was broken I only heard that heart’s intent To be a comfort in every extent To those lost : healing with words unspoken. The gentle heart seeks comfort and surety […]
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Perhaps
The breeze whispers in the silence I stir and weakly waft it away It beckons to me in its insistence I tell it now is not the day. Like all who have preceded me, I could too follow that lost way, I’d rather draw its strength to me And let me say what I must […]
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A Moment Everlasting
Unconsciously we crafted a moment Where we stopped time for a time And met each other once again To resume an everlasting serenity. I thought I was merely speaking Wasted words and actions repeating Yet as I spoke to the others I could see You were listening, listening completely to me. And your listening created a […]
Andrew James Whalan 