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Collateral Damage
what would we do if he dropped bombs here ? as we saw it fall we’d know it’s all over for us ! would we make up where we could offer necessary apologies long overdue balance our consciences play music say one final I love you ? ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Twenty-eight prompt; Concrete →
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on friendship
at nights’s darkest pointI woke knowing you were hereit wasn’t a dream ~ n.b. How strange and lovely it is to feel another’s presence despite their absence. I woke, reached out and realised this presence was in my heart. I smiled, returned happily to sleep. CLP 28/04/2022 →
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Swan
This feather floating on the lakeIts hollow shaft so strong, so lightBarbs and barbules do combineTo form the vane of shining whiteIs this us so gently curledRachis perfectly holding shapeBarely touching the water’s skinLike your lips that kiss my napeCausing shivers of the spineThis feather came from heaven aboveLifting my spirit from lockdowns’ painThis feather →
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Svetlana Polkadotova
Smart, like a slap to the face.She suffered fools the way a cat strips feathers from a blackbird hauled indoors through the cat-flap.When she spoke she held a man’s attention, like a foot soldier’s attention holds when the Field Marshall approaches down the line.We’d met by chance, the kind of chance you’d have crossing Interstate →
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Pillow Talk
Where were we when you saidIt is okay for me to say “tu”?I could not reciprocate, there is nothingin English to convey such subtle changeThat step from formal to familiarFrom mannered speech to intimateIt exposed the Anglo-Saxon in me tooMy lack of ease dealing in greyMy lack of language to expressEmotions too layered for me →
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Inexplicable
New moon over the lakePerseids showering the peaksSheerbeautyofCreationYou had to be thereSo very sillyLike children repeatingPooWeeWillyBumYou had to be thereIn the Arrivals hallAfter unexplained delayWaitingWaitingWaitingWaitingYou had to be thereAt the stationUnstoppableI thought it strangeWe hadhadaplanYou had to be thereLockdown over EuropeMy body burned for youSunshinespringflowersbirdsongYou had to be there~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eighteen prompt: →
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Love Song (Duet)
I just called to say I love youDon’t talk to me about loveI want to know what love isLove is the drugDance me to the end of loveWhat’s love got to do with it?Will you love me tomorrow?I’d do anything for love (but I won’t do that)All you need is loveI’m not in loveDon’t go →
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Synchronicity
with no particular place to gospring-heeled Jack waltzed along the lanecaught a falling white featherbrushed it soft on his lipsremembered the lovehe’d cruelly spurnedclutched his heartfell downdead ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Nine prompt; write a nonet. CLP 09/04/2022 →
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Marie Celeste
She approached in full rigCatching every breathSilent as a swan on that silvery seaThere was just the Moon watching herAnd meAdriftLike night’s ships shouldShe seemed to steer clearSo, was it me or she who veered?No bored inquiry could ascertainI threw out an old lineSoon found myself aboardAll ship-shape, lights ablazeFully crewed with memories of menWho →
Journey of Words 