Friendship Lost Poems

I missed you with a burning flame and fire
Like you were mine.
Though when I knew you I had no desire
To have you, once gone, sunken...

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Once upon a monsoon summer, nearby to Mexico,
Two friends from different worlds once met and there they said hello.
No one would ever be as close,...

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yellow leaves litter
the street after
a touch of rain
asphalt glistens
I drive alone
I listen to Public Radio
a story told
a man lives alone
betrayed
and my tires sing
as his story...

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For some reason, he has me even after ending our season,
For that same reason, he includes me in his daily things,
The reason being what he...

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Two friends would speak one summer night,
Trapped then in gossip’s throes;
But just one turned toward the light,
Or so the story goes.
 
The first would breathe...

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Lucy Locket lived amidst Lakeland Hills, where jay serenaded morning;
Like plum rainbows celebrate sunshine, with never any silent warning.

Lucy was merely twenty years old, like...

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churning, crazy-making firestorm
upends reason to disrepair
heightens our senses, our esteem
blinds us to flaws unseen

Oh Mother’s reckless devotion
withstands all adversity
delusional in admiration
eyes obscured, see only perfection

friendship’s...

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Pinch me, poke me
I still dream 
Poets rattle
Every ream

Words don't fail me
As I fall
I want to capture 
Love, is all

Blank page
Staring
At the start
Composition of the...

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Talking sweetly, we walked slowly 
Then you hit me in the back
Like a boulder I was rolling 
Down the hill and down the track
That’s the...

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Among the shadows of the night  

I hear your footsteps  

the scent of jasmine  

on your henna-dyed hair.  

 

I remember...

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I, me, myself and I alone,
were the only lyrics he knew,
cold, calculating, heart of stone,
no wonder our friendship fell through.

Why on earth would we trauma...

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In the quiet corners of our shared days,
Where words are but whispers and laughter,
We built something fragile, something rare—
A friendship, pure and unguarded,
Between a girl...

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In the dimly lit corners of her existence,
She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence.
From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born,
Destined...

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Time has wrinkled our weeping faces,
never withered any of the embraces;
oh, how delightful is to walk again 
down the path of youth and not fear
whatever...

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I’ve known you …

Before  We lived our other lives

Between  As our paths crossed through the years

Now it’s our time… if only for a...

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