Category: Poetry
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‘If’ (poem snippet)
If all we had to do was walk or kiss under tarpaulin in the rain or make barbaric yawps from mountain tops & fly on wings new-sprung from shoulder blades
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Send
Send me a secret story in a song just for me Send me a grain of dust Send me a heartbeat flipped, squeezed with lemon juice, soaked with sugar Send me the sharp stars Send me the winks in the water Send me Send me songs, photographs, breaths, petals, kisses, muddy puddles Send send Send…
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If we thought that love was gone
by Alison Wells (1991) i If we thought that love was gone that out of sweetness none remained why should we catch the balmy air its warm and laden music strained upon a wise and falling light the evening coming home to rest the wide relentless sky still bright like a heart stretched taut with…
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Poetry – Summer
Restless blood thumping Sin spinning in the thick river Hot flesh Neck dips slip sacred hollows Smooth slices honeyed shoulders Teeth and lips sinking plum juice The dark interior Pulse points, black veins Liquid gold pouring On the shallow surface Skin buzzing with molecular nectar Crackle Winter embers from ash flare, flash Incinerated self-slivers sail…
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