Let's

Let's not talk
About love
Just accept it

Let's not
Analyse it
Or feel bereft of it

It exists
We exist
In the here and now

So let's not talk
About past or future
Or how it might mature

Let's just talk
About anything
While we make time

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Changing Faces

You died in 1990
Yet still live on.

The living spread,
Disseminate
In more than one.

Discursive
Rhyme And Rhythm
Have taken on

And over
Reasoned binds
Seasoned

To smell
Of wood;
Just for one.

Now silent recitals

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Gallery

Oh I have seen your face before
It is a work of art
For which you need no badge

Oh I have seen your face before
It is accessible here
And easier to manage

Oh I have seen your face before
Now in this space
Of historical greats

Oh I have seen your face before
In this gallery themes change
But simply walk to navigate

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In deed

Back in the door
She 'plonks' the 'messages'
on the kitchen table.

'Messages',
Now who coined that term?
Isn't it the 'shopping',
The 'groc-er-ies'.

The mind does a playback
To the days when 'messages'
Were handwritten notes
By your grandnother in Ireland
To get some milk,

Or some bread
Or something.
Indeed.

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Beep Beep Beep

Beep Beep Beep...
These were the sounds
Upon waking...
Tubes everywhere
My God she was intubated!

What had happened?

She couldn't talk
She tried to get
Someone's attention
With her hands

No use

She tried screaming...
Get me out of here
I'm back! ! !

No sound came yet

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No Longer Adrift

No longer adrift, I have returned;
Returned to the place of my birth,
The origin of my love's declaration.

I have returned to the sweetfullness
Of timelessness, on nature's breast
Yearned and in mourning, as since scorned.

But I still have my faith, I still have my love,
For the voices they speak to me, through your words.

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Case of Butterflies brought back to life

From your case of butterflies,
Beautifully preserved butterflies,
You choose which one
Tonight;

And night by night
You give them breath,
You give them flight

Of ideas and words,
By blowing them out
Into the atmosphere,
Like fireflies one by one;

Each one different
But one source,
Covertly relieving you
Of your curse.

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When All Is Quiet

When all is quiet
And not a human in sight
I think of your precious vase
Carelessly broken by me
Again

But then
You thoughtfully remind
Me with a smile
That it was not the last
Or only one

For that resides
Within my heart
Pouring water that flowers
Each flawed part
To start anew

Such is the love
You have for me

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Dear heart

Dear heart,
Why is it always when I try to leave,
You put on the charm and that gentle face
Looking for one last little embrace?

Dear heart,
Why can't I ever leave you
When you tell me to?
(And usually I'm so obedient!)

Dear heart,
The truth is, I never left
And couldn't as such,
Because....because...

I just love you too much!

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I am the Internet zombie

I am the Internet zombie
I have no heart
Because no-one
Talks to me

I have no ears
My hands are out
In front of me
Com Zombie

I do not like sky
Or fresh air
Just the bright screen
In front of me

I am the Internet zombie
I do not eat
I do not leave
My office bedroom

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