Sian
...Sian, she sits in a lonely room,
Hugging at her knees
Should she go to London Town,
Or stay where her roads are clean?
Sian, she sits on a wooden chair,
She falls onto her knees
She longs to be...
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Categories:
sian, art, birth, courage, culture,
Form: Ballad
Souls and Bodies We'Ll Lay Down
...“Souls and Bodies We’ll Lay Down”
Ominous clouds have
Invaded my soul;
Thrust swords into my heart.
Darker than the midnight air.
Stars gone forever more.
Bloodied hands in my dreams.
I...
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Categories:
sian, courage, emotions, peace, poems,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Rasputin
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"50 Words for Poe: Rasputin"
The Rat was buried in the Pet Cemetery
His name was Rasputin
She had been fond of him for some time
feeding him...
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Categories:
sian, dark, death of a
Form: Burlesque
The Edge of Night
...this netherworld
this hospice of broken souls
this travesty of triumph’s trauma
blank pages
telling stories
sightless readers
sifting the ash
of scorched lives
charred character
seeking sola...
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Categories:
sian, betrayal, society, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
The Secret Storm
...Within cries decreed with shadows mourning
Mortal sin translucent through eyes scorning
Brewing storms amidst silent atramental abyss
Accruing waves breathed loves lingering kiss
Minds melt...
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Categories:
sian, confusion, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
As the World Turned For Some
...She had an almost insane love of life,
Her attitude exuded abject fairness,
She was the abominably busy butcher’s wife,
Cancer treatments turned her suddenly quite hairless.
Her love of God an...
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Categories:
sian, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Search For Tomorrow
...I lost the love of my life
In the secret storm
of our romance
Looking for a guiding light
For our love teeters on the
Edge of night
As the world turns
I will search for love tomorrow
Amo...
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Categories:
sian, love, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
A World Apart Yet We Have the Best of Everything
...I am encapsulated by your love
Dramatized uncleaned in a soap opera
A World Apart, yet we have The Best of Everything
You are my Guiding Light
You are my Love of Life
Awaiting The Brighter Day
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Categories:
sian, appreciation, assonance, desire, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Leopard Cannot Change Its Spots
...A-frican leopard can't change its spots,
I-n terms of man's character;
L-earning to transform is tough,
Y-es, trying hard doesn't matter.
M-onday November twenty-seventh
I-s in the nature's...
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Categories:
sian, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Middle Aged Tennis Lesson
...Thirty years since Mrs Meckin
Said "Sian, who are y' markin'?"
on the hockey field
Wind chillin'
Legs freezin'
Knuckles reddenin'
Clutchin' the rubber handle of my Mum's
old hoc...
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Categories:
sian, age, anxiety, body, life,
Form: I do not know?
Wall
...Wall
Within the confinement my thoughts her tears sweep through my marrows
As her lips intertwine within the shadow of my webs...
The thoughts of staying longer in her cascading emotions motioned ...
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Categories:
sian, romance,
Form: Classicism