Best Shadow Boxing Poems

Death accepts us all
        Life’s the discriminator
        Move towards the light 

By
David Kavanagh...

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Each moment grows
Birth and death
Shedding what was left

The chrome piece of time
Dangles like a wooden cross
neck lace, passionate for death
The stolen widow
Her extensions outstretched

From a windowless perspective
The universe encircles in captive dance
We are caught in every mired branch
Still sleeping under the sun

Talking heads prosaic in...

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‘When did you last see me’?

It was a Tuesday
I changed your diaper.....I can still smell your poop.

‘And then’?

You at four, your little hand tugging me into love.
At six, finger-painting;
my garish face splashed onto blank paper,
eye’s googly-bright like crazy suns.

‘I don't remember that’.

You at ten years...

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