White surf dances up
curtsies to the beach and
dances back again
again and again and again
huddled in cuddle we - laugh!
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Only Your Love
Inside my dream
I am dreaming
I am dreaming.
A mirror reflecting a mirror reflecting
a mirror.
Only your love
is real.
poem by Dónall Dempsey
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Emotional Weather Forecast
The warm front
of my laughter
collides with
the cold front of her
silence
I can see there is
stormy weather
ahead.
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True To Her Word
Lena Gilbert Ford
yes she who wrote the words
to the immortal
“KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING”
died
in a fire
at
home.
poem by Dónall Dempsey
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The Here Of Now
Time walks behind and ahead
of me here I am
in the bubble of now
my ghost
trapped in the mirror
between the glass & silver
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One tree passes moon
to the other tree slyly
as if it had thought
I hadn’t seen it do it.
But ah...I smile: “Gotcha! ”
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SMUGGLER(for Junie)
Crossing the border
of your death
I return
with the memory
of the memory
of the touch of your hand
hidden
inside my mind.
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dog invades from sea
gains the beach and then lets go
shaking itself dry
holiday makers react
as if they've been machine-gunned
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Thorn bleeds with my blood
pouring red into white rose
my humanity
unable to change Nature's
design - white rose remain...white.
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Two grapes left on plate
look like lost nipples looking
for their mammaries.
I popping them in my mouth
delighting in both senses.
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