Best Alfie Poems

Down the foggy street
your lonely figure did laik,*
no words no smile
just waiting for your mate,
knowing I,  a wandering soul.
Like the wind!
I’d come and go, summer madness
winter’s snow, recharged urchin
forever all aglow.  Yet!
next to the corner shop
your place, we all perceived
your fortress, a sanctuary...

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“What was it all about Alfie?”

Yes, there was a time I didn`t think
of a woman’s feeling they were an object 
only of my desires.
Then love came as did rejections 
and sleepless nights.
What were the tears for when the dance
was over she believed in me.
This infatuation...

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Arrows, what are they good for?
In an embodied dungeon very near to
my molested liver
arrows pile up, bundles of barbs,
each one a love letter
that missed its mark.
Some older ones
still drip an attenuated poison 
from their blunted tips.
Yes, love can be cruel
but it is rarely accurate.
It lives...

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