Even Slums Have Parks
...I walked as a grey kid
lost in his own hometown streets.
When my slow mind
began to see more clearly
it saw brick dusted air
and a sunlight blotched with yesterday's scabs.
There were small...
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Categories:
patchworked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sea of Roses
...
O n c e upon
a medieval arc,
when the coral night
was engrossed in
fuchsia epitaphs of fireflies,
your fingers,
embalmed
in the fangs of february moon,
shredded the love ~
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Categories:
patchworked, angst, deep, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Forever
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“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forg...
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Categories:
patchworked, dark, halloween, light, love,
Form: Narrative
Pastoral Recall
...PASTORAL
Yes I remember when this was all fields
Patchworked across the vale to chalky down
The cornfield and the pastures and the weald
That fed the hearts and bodies of the town
Yes I reca...
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Categories:
patchworked, memory, nature,
Form: Rhyme
In Flower Fields
...The moon a shawl over her shoulders
almost replacing his arms'embrace,
In her wine-glass pools of light floating
reflect the glow upon his face.
His deep-set eyes like summer ripples
carry her t...
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Categories:
patchworked, beautiful, emotions, words,
Form: Free verse
Bluebell Woods
...I love bluebells,
I like their deep scent,
the way they jingle invitingly in the spring breeze,
their delicate blanket patchworked by trees,
brief but bold blues against verdant greens, sparkl...
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Categories:
patchworked, absence, color, england, i
Form: Verse
The Turning
...The year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the strengthening light,
In its deliberate and unconcerned ...
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Categories:
patchworked, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Summer, Milltown, Belfast 1980's
...Milltown, Shawsbridge in the 1980's...
When the sun had possession of the season
and tarmac was treacled by the temperature.
When we went to war with the wasps
and ventured wide eyed in 'the pla...
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Categories:
patchworked, childhood, life,
Form: Light Verse
Reversing Polarity
...Reversing Polarity
Spaced the green breeze
Rattled the verbs of leaves
Launching dart birds
In shoals
Over reefs of trees
Settle and rise
Settle and rise
Between shades patchworked skies
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Categories:
patchworked, nature
Form: Free verse