Precious

The jewels
That sparkle in your eyes
Are pools
To bathe in.
Aqua skies
Above
Are swathed in
Cotton candy dreams.
As sunlit diamonds
Adorn with love
The flowing gown of silver streams.
The stars
That hang like spectral pearls.
Are bells that rang
In other worlds.
Attending heavens' glittering ball
To wear the night
Like ermine shawl.
When sprites have danced
To mystic tune

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Dear Friend

Such old friends.
Bookends.
Bucked all the trends
But life doesn't give it lends.
You are gone
Yet shine on
Living next to me
As the wind
- With that invisible touch.
Remember when our hopes were pinned
And mattered so very much.
Now they float downstream
And you are free to dream
In your heaven.
I can hear your laughter
Only through the mosaic colours
Of a broken memory.
Can you hear my sigh?
Did you see my heart
Waving goodbye.

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Firefly.

I'm reaching out.
Lonely flower in the breeze.
A refugee on their knees.
For the lost page
Of our book.
A happy ending
Someone took.

Reaching out.
For a shell
To hear the sea.
A bell
That tolls for me.
I'm a single fallen leaf
In a churchyard of empty grief.

Searching
Silhouettes of the blind.
Dancing
Pirouettes of a crippled mind.

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Home

One day
The Heavens will crash.
Cymbals will clash
And ten thousand trumpets blow.
Oh yes,
Then we will know.
He has come
To take us home.
While
The world still hates
And peace still waits.
As the sky hums
To bass drums,
And explodes
In a symphony of love.
Reverberating above,
In softest clouds
Of ice white foam.
He has come
To take us home.

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Heavenly Theatre

Sprinkles
Of twinkles
Of stardust.
Thrown across
An Autumn sky.
As a lone cloud
Hangs on high.
Like a balloon
After a party.
Watching the parade go by.
While
The chilled fingers
Of november
Play a melody.
Iced
With the sugar
Of a lost spring.
Inviting colours
To sing.
A bird,

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Amy

Amy, we felt your pain
You sang it like it is
A time bomb with a fizz
- of jazz and soul.
But the demons broke your heart
Your sad love story in the chart
And the booze could not replace what they had stole.
Yet despite your Vodka 'straight'
- and the 'coke'
- They had to wait.
Your voice released an angel of the Blues
The scars they wouldn't heal
Your tragic love songs were for real
'Love is a losing game'
And Amy Winehouse wore the bruise.
So now it's 'Back to black'
Camden Town wants you back
And we'll remember you with poignancy and pain.
With you we weren't alone
And as 'Tears dry on their own'

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Death At Last

Death.
My last breath
Or was it a sigh.
A welcome goodbye.
Deceased.
Released from the pain.
Blood dried in my vein.
My darling with a kiss.
Was just a snake with a hiss.
And all I will miss
The scent of a twilight bliss.
Never suited this life at all.
Now take my picture from your wall.
And forget me as I know you will.
My lifetime was the cheapest thrill.
I spit in the face of love.
And handle carefully, with glove
Cupid's poisonous dart.
Shot right through my heart.
Now, bereft of memory

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Hobo

Hobo of the night
Drinking your 'Lightning White'
Avoiding park bench frostbite.
Long finished crying
-Diminished
And slowly dying
Within his shell
What special hell
- A drunken song can tell.
Look into his eyes
Take your heart out of disguise
And realise
It could be you.
Strangers
Yet we walk the same road
- We do.
Hobo plays the blues at dusk
Pouring his heart
Outside the Mart.
Self medication

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We Sang In The Snow

When we sang in the snow
Under that cold amber glow
That professed to be the sun
Trying to melt our fun;
Lighting our wonderland show
Warming our laughter below
Young promises- freezing to death.
Biting wind stealing our breath.
Snowmen hoping frost lingers.
Mittens with tingling fingers.
Sledging out of sight
Under new moonlight
Spangled diamonds above
Lit fires
In our hearts of love.
I kissed your cheek
And held you near
This minute, this hour
This day this year
Would burn within our very being

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So

Wild, like sun kissed hair.
In the wind.
Childlike
In flowered dress sequinned.
-With blue moonbeams.
Yet she seems
In many ways
A woman mature.
Casting magic
In twilight haze.
With aria so pure.

Smiled.
Like the moon
When stars enhance.
Beguilled.
No start or end
To lovers dance.
Just a kiss
That found two souls

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