• I.C.U

    Both eyes closed is fraught with dangerspeace can be defiled by strangers.So, I sleep with one eye openhoping to know what's realand what's not.

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    Tattooed Roses

    On the margin of some pagesHeart felt feelingsExclamationsWritten largeJoy or sorrowWonderOr most preciousLoveEvoked by some now sacred passage Emblem redThe petals bedewedDancing among thornsFragrant the roseWhose beauty wounds Innocence lostIn sweetnessBut the sweet of the appleNot so sweet by half as...

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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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    Hands off

    You have no hold on me and I think I’ll get a running start before I leap I was always straining against a tether that was never really there

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    The Close Part II

    The falcon soars unlike ever beforeThy enamel stainedThy index fadedFight our battlesEvermore be hatedWhoever might take me will burn to ashesMy legacy's kept until the close will catch us Keep me saneI'll save my soul for youAll that I doI...

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