Have I Ever Told You That
...Have I ever told you that
… as you lie next to me
I know that you are cheating
…I have seen both you and she
I heard you talking on your phone
You’d no idea that I was home
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Categories:
bullrushes, feelings, food, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Find Me Then
...In this verse you will find my love story, where the ocean feels like home. We met when the horror movie, “The Fog,” was at the theater. I have also used imagery from “Peter Pan.”
FIND ME THE...
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Categories:
bullrushes, love,
Form: Verse
The Waiting Game
...THE ANGLER and THE WAITING GAME
Along the shallow sloping winter bourne
The water trickles to the stream to drain
The rain-wet fields on bone cold winter morn
It’s life held brief by seasonal...
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Categories:
bullrushes, art, nature,
Form: Rhyme
May Walking the Canal
...along the toll path, worn by footfall,
I walk as a water colourist
tracing the canal's hidden track,
hewn blocks are daubed,
washed by mildew green
silver weals etched like faded liver spo...
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Categories:
bullrushes, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lancaster Canal
...along the toll path, worn by footfall,
I walk as a water colourist
tracing the canal's hidden track,
hewn blocks are daubed,
washed by mildew green
silver weals etched like faded liver spo...
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Categories:
bullrushes, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Shower of Sediment
...In such a whimsical action
a half-asleep routine
shaped disrobed and left stark naked
this vehicle, this housing, a shell
scarred skin, greying hair, bones, muscle
and more besides with plent...
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Categories:
bullrushes, blessing, imagination, nature, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Empty
...rough wooden background
light behind your laddered frame
woven bullrushes your seat
unbroken staunch stiff
what spinsters have you held tall
with locked knees and fallen heads
*5/7/7/5/7/7 on...
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Categories:
bullrushes, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Choka