Carousel

Memories
Like summer rain
Come and go
Ebb and flow.
Like the tide.
Our carousel ride
So brief.

Like dewdrops on a leaf.
In the softest Autumn sigh
Both in beauty, wait to die.
Heaven or hell
Split by one golden hair.
Ride your carousel
Before that electric chair.

Embrace joy
And your bird will soar.
Dance with your lover on the shore.
Woo her with a forever kiss.

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Never Mend

Ironic.
Platonic.
Is how our story must end.
It's fact.
A cracked
Heart
Will never mend.
Nostalgia.
Neuralgia.
Just different types of pain.
Bad memory.
No emery
Could smooth it out
Again.
Kisses
Now don't warm,
They scald.
Revenge
A dish
That's always best served cold.

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Sweet Music

Hear the choir
On the wind.
Soothe you
Like a rolling cloud.
Background,
To the migrant crowd
On the wing.
Sweet music
Echoes in everything.

Sunlight dancing
On blue bay.
Hula hula
Palm trees sway.
Garlands
Of a tuneful sky.
Spill their scented notes
On high.
Dripping into
Orchestras of the ocean.

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Rag Doll

Rag doll.
What tales you could tell.
A child's embrace
By a wishing well.
A painted face
And a Wizard's spell.
Ay birthdays
Young.
She always clung
To you.
Rag doll.
Of red and blue.

Rag doll.
You lay abandoned
On the floor.
Now lonely
Behind a cupboard door.
You weep.
Where is that spark

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Instruments Of an Affair

That saxaphone
When you're alone
Will haunt your soul.
We'll dance again
In some jazz den
That daybreak stole.

Revealing our tryst
As sweet notes kissed
With one drum roll.
You and I can compare
Instruments of an affair.

That pianoforte
And chocolate torte
Enjoyed together.
Just you and I
Held hands to sigh

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A Fan

Before the sun has set
I'll be a little old man
Before our lips had met
I would have had a plan
But love strolled by so fast
Our present
Is now my past
Catch it if you can
You see, with time, I'm just not a fan.
With you every day was warm
And i flew, but couldn't land
Heat of passion I thought was the norm
But I was burnt
When I thought I had tanned
And fate blew her away so fast
Now I'm at sea
And tied to the mast
That thief stole our joy and ran
You see, with time, I'm just not a fan.

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Blue

I remember you in blue
In that sad silent movie of memories.
Watching your eyes
Lost in your beauty.
As you went about your kitchen
Cooking
Then looking up.
You smiled.
A woman
But child
In love.
I came in
And kissed your neck.
Put my arms around you
And opened the wine
- A demi-sec.
We toasted
Pledges made so true.
- Coasted,
As awoken hearts just flew.

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The Flower

When unknown Gods
Planted the seed,
To blossom
In breathtaking colour and scent.
Such beauty we would always need.
But the flower of love
Always came and went.

Don't crush it in your hand
Don't rush it,
Understand.
Every second, every hour
Cherish.
But perish
Will your flower.

Now dried.
And dead in Winter field.
For others
Spring time will be revealed.

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Chunda

'Chunda', that's what we called him
The old man teaching young men
Could have been standing in front of a mirror.
Our schoolboy 'Mr Chips',
'Chunda'.
That's how we got him riled
He probably turned his back and smiled.
The chaos he put up with, the practical jokes,
'Chunda'.
Old fashioned Chunda, he was slow but sincere
He would swear with us all, he wasn't a fool.
Until he died, that was foolish..
Blackboards and chalk and the last day of term,
His last day.
'Chunda', you were the best.

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Your Eyes

I lay awake
Yet dream
Of your eyes.
Blazing skies
Of the night.
Darkest sweet delight.
My soul
Lit by candle light
Of your kiss.
Heated
By the fever
Of your nakedness.
Your eyes
Tantalize.
And make love to mine.
I will devour you
In time,
With passion
Of a burning rhyme.
Setting fire to your body

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