Short Padlocked Poems

Fold away the fields,
Watch spring blossom turn to ash.
Nature gives, then steals.
Our love padlocked to a bridge
Will endure beyond death's crash...

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The other side
of knowing 
A padlocked world
of dreams
Whose key is tattooed 
on my hope 
Till opened
unredeemed

A treasure chest
of wisdom
Whose prescience 
zero sum
Instinct crowned
in jewels of fire
Burning
—to become

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...

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I am lost. Should i go find myself? What if what i find unsatisfactory? What is me? Ive been 
lost for so long would i know me? Will i find it to much to bare? How to unlock a door thats 
been padlocked for so long, my mind is being swept, dusted, remolded, the floor waxed and 
the door cracked thanks to the cleaning lady....

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Cast adrift from my thoughts

Just remnants left of times gone past.

Glimpses of what had been

Brief recollections, but a flash.

Empty spaces more and more

Out of reach, confusion reigns.

They're hidden behind a padlocked door,

For fewer memories now remain.

As for you, worry not

No need to stand and pity me.

I now dwell in another place,

I seems my mind, is all at sea....

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Padlocked are the Gate's 
Stationary lie the Conveyor Belts 
The Wheel upon the Mining Head Gear

Turns,
 No more

The community has gone
So to is the Coal
And the Sunset

Resigned to History
No more mystery 
Pressing a Museum to Explain

That what which our Elders did
For a measly pittance 
To put food on his family's plate
And to afford a Pint after a hard days graft

With only a Helmet and Light
To find his way Home
Guardian Angel 
Willing...

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