After winning one of his competitions TOM WOODY suggested I might try expanding the poem. I am not sure what he meant, but i tuned in the mood and here is an expansion of the first poem Unloved. Hope it meets with approval..
UNLOVED 2 (EXPANDED) The stinging is particularly painful today, Needles of sharp cold burning blood stab and sear my heart The jabbing jagged thousand little holes stay And begin again tomorrow to flay each part. Rejection is a drowning drunk Gasping with each mouthful of pride Another trophy now lies lifeless and sunk Another screaming day that died. For all the steaming dreaming part I played in the capture of my choice Flat failure is the guide of my loveless dart And a choking silence is my only voice. When the punished pillows murder cry Silent clocks and secret swish Of thick dark failing falling curtains fringed with notoriety Rip the seams of a ragged wish Until the spleen sheds its poison deep below Swimming into the fathom of night and day Where no tender fingers reach my depth And only the claw grasps its prey. Liar lord of loyalty the infidel of opera cloak Sweep and cover a collapsing shroud Leaving only the tomb and the weeping womb For the remnants of the uncertain crowd.
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