Best Harboured Poems

Take me there to yesterday's Summer night.
Walking on the beach,
sand between our toes,
hair blowing in the breeze.

When ripples in the sea,
slowly cleansed the sand,
tickling our...

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There he sat among the ashes, thinking he was, oh, so good,
Just a tiny glowing ember that was once a piece of wood,
And he thought...

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Above waters of darkness and shadows, I float adrift
Leaving behind anchored thoughts of screaming grief.
On a man-made raft I set sails 
beyond the edge of...

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As the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free...

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 Take me back to yesterday's summer night
Walking on the beach,
Sand between our toes
Hair blowing in the breeze.

When ripples in the sea 
slowly cleansed the...

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If only, if only, if only you knew
The measure of affection felt for you.
Your potential great, so much more to do,
Then you concluded your time...

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In a moment of magic I once gave her a juicy innocent peach

Not yet knowing that she harboured a sweet nascent dream

In which as a...

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Stood on the roof of the Empire State
Two American men and their new English mate
It’s true that a bourbon or two had been had
Perhaps that’s...

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A fuddled mind surfs through tides.
Harboured, she sits by the sea doing nothing.
Her toes make electric touch with the  water
Restless currents ... spark the...

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Charred in solace of your embrace
reminiscences engrossed as imprint
harboured in placards of your grace

A birth, a thousand with no squint
in winter's pure pour of snow
reminiscences...

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Standing hoeing garden stones
Eyes awash with tears
As memories flood back from
More than sixty years,
To the little village churchyard
For which my dad cared
And which duty I,...

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The clock on the mantle, quietly chimed ten
As she placed the note by its face
Then checking herself in the mirror
She walked to the door, to...

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An unclaimed Gift

For you, I have placed my beating heart on a silver plate.
You have chosen to let it die – not to become your...

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If really, you are an angel
I do not understand !
Why an angel should murder -
Another blessed Angel
I don't know why you had to abort
Because to...

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ODE TO HILDA 

( Hilda - Women Hostel at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) 
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