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    Born of Frustration

      Beyond the breakers  where the tides never reach,  we watched a small child flying two kites  and you said ‘that could be me and you’    Born still,  midwife's mouth turned to scissors  delivering the cruellest cut    Sometimes, the sun rises in   my bedroom at midnight  the TV...

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    Boots, Blazers and the Spaces in Between

    On the edge of my waking dreams  lain as solitary skeleton under double-duvet shroud,  only my mind knows who I groped in the night  no room for ghosts or memories of teenage promises,    |f you ride the subway   m twilight to sun rise  make sure...

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    • Interesting how you go to one time period to the other.

    • Dear R,

      Fantastic blend of dreamscape and lively activities. The flirty and suggestive atmosphere throughout is a very hot ticket. I really liked how you worked in all the references of different movies and forms of dancing. For me, I never knew there could be such a level of passion, especially in the written word. Fabulous write. H 🌷

    • Fia, thank you.

      H. your presence here is a pleasure to the poetry world. I simply genuflect at your kind and caring soul x

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    South African Blues and Other Apartheid Tales

    It was you who brought a blade into our bed  peeled the skin from grenades  beyond barbed wire, torniquet fingered,  but the only person bleeding was me    From the Jubilee Line to Trafalgar Square  you sweated love apartheid into my p(s)alms,  how could you be...

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    • Not sure how to edit a submission, but somehow, in internet madness, the pen ultimatum stanza was omitted. As if anyone gives a fuck!

      submarines tightly knotted in our gulf

      diving for my very existence

      when I should have been diving for pearls

    • This sounds like the pain he felt was caused by her not caring. You cared more so you wrote about it. Nicly penned.

    • It’s good to read your material again. Some writers whack me upside the head with their weighty words. And I don’t mind a bit. It makes me think. It makes me curious. That’s the best drug to me: Curiosity. So thank you for feeding us this drug of yours.

    • Thank you Fia. In a nutshell, your interpretation is correct

      Cheers Mark. I miss ‘chatting’ to the likes of Gary and your good self. For some reason (prob my IT incompetence) I can’t expand my messages on here. I’ll send my email.

    • Dear R,

      The desolation of being the person who loves more with little, or worse, no return affection is the curse of the one damned for eternity. Having been there this write is very impactful. H🌷

    • so sorry to read this resonates. beyond cyber madness I send the greatest hug. oo, you get to smell my latest aftershave too. sauvage. lol

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    Did I Dream You Dreamt About Me

    Did I Dream You Dreamt About Me?      Holding still for Autumn to open her legs   to taste the warmth between her thighs,   as secret lovers’ letters   etched upon leaves    waiting for their fall      Biting my initials into tree’s neck   pulling branch wrists towards that cave   where pale orange...

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