Book of Pages

Books are the bricks that build my cell
Pages the chains that bind me
No partner, no love, nor friends to quell
This solitude that rages around me
A barren confession, to shameful to tell
A hollow life, unlived, left behind me
A life sentence served and a lifetime to dwell
On this loneliness that will always surround me.

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Pandora’s Legacy

When Pandora’s box was opened and all the ills of the world where let loose the gods conspired to leave one thing remaining to aid humankind. What remained in the box was Hope.
What happens when this, too, is lost?
The spirit dies, there is no point. No point in trying. No point to anything you do.
Just [...]

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Temps Perdu

Seeing the leaves fall from the tree
Had never truly worried me
but now I mark their brief descent
with morbid sense of lost time spent.
For does not the now naked tree
Bare against each winter freeze
Reflect the passing of my life for me
The World the Tree, our lives like leaves.
They served their purpose in season of sun
Harboured light [...]

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Tired

Each day I feel tiredness increasing, disappointment refuse from ceasing. Choose an option, make a decision, for it to end in wrong choice made. Tired of the fight, tired of the struggle, the rip off, bargain basement, buy-one-get-one free world. Want to close my eyes and never once open them again.

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The Pearl

They gathered round the Oyster shell
Some sighed and said “I knew him well”
They mourned the fact that he was dead
Hymns were sung and some prayers read.
Buried now and Dust to Dust
The shell degraded as all flesh must
But the soul eternal will, forever, dwell
For we are the Pearl and not the Shell.

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Book of Poetry available on lulu

A collection of my poetry and prose is available here on lulu.com

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friend

…if you knew her eyes.
Fierce Blue. Then you knew all
I knew. How love grew.

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earthsong

Third stone from the sun
Better to be good tenants
Only stone we have.

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moment

Same frog, same pond. Plop!
Never the same pond, in truth,
Never the same frog.

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soulfood

Of what use horseshit?
Attend to it, mix it well.
From this roses bloom.

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