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Standing in the Shadow
Standing in the shadow of this mood no longer ruler of my emotions; visited by ghosts of a bygone age I cannot shake the stardust from my eyes. The silence is deafening. The memories blinding. With...
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Let Me Be
Always watching – ever present, never a moment of peace. I long for the quiet, the housewives dream; no privacy, always eyes watching, with a question or a request. Leave me alone – let me be, to...
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Broken
Don’t try to fix me I am broken. Don’t try to save me now my day has gone. I live in memories, dreams half remembered. I am damaged, smashed and undone. I tried to fix me, glue back the pieces;...
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Tears
I don’t understand this situation, too complex in secretive layers, hidden in depths of memories, memories we do not share. You do not want me, you don’t let me go. I cannot read you, you blow hot and...
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Bitter Sweet, Bitter Suite
Bitter sweet, bitter Suite, you break my heart again. I gently hold you in my arms try not to cause you pain. This sweetness to be with you, to see your face once more; to cherish just one last...
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Becoming (her)
She looks in the mirror, and stares in the glass. Memories visual, the haunting has passed. Recalling events, reflected in front, and wonders quite simply, when did I become? © Becoming...
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For Sale
This is the room where you collapsed on the floor pulled yourself up and crawled to the door. This is the day when you gave it away that you couldn’t cope you were fragile and broke. This...
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Dublin
Apologies for my lack of presence – I am very busy with work and a room refurb – I hope to be back soon!! Watch this space! In the interim time, another oldie – one of my readers reminded me of this...
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Remembering
The scent of your clothes the dazzle of a diamond it was all yours and I never was a part of you But since you have gone these eight years short Indian summers and I never am apart from...
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Are You a Ghost?
Are you a ghost? Taunting my memories possessed by a thought fleeting shadow lurking in the corner of my heart haunted by circumstances
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Dorothy
They called you ‘big Dot’, and I was ‘little Dot’, you hated that. Remember when, on Christmas Eve, chickenpox struck with great malaise? Granddad came to visit me, and how he laughed,...
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Satsuma Tears
I am the festive lodger, pushed from pillar to post. Always someone else’s Christmas, fake smiles to a congenial host. I’m as shafted as the fairy, stuck on an artificial tree;...
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Paramour
Within my mind I see your face, still haunted by the sound of your laughter, recalling the warmth of your sweet embrace. All these I carry within my heart. See my head turn as I hear...
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Black Rose
The last of the summer rays blush gently on my cheek. Tears fall like dew from the morning rose. The flower blossoms, the flower blooms. Slowly it fades as petals fall one by one the...
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The Irish Emigrant
Here’s a poem to commemorate St Patrick’s day, by The Countess of Dufferin. Happy St Patrick’s Day to family and friends :) The Irish Emigrant I’m sitting on the stile, Mary, Where we...
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Threnody
Do not grieve when I am gone, I would not want it so. Plant both feet firm in life’s joy, and let my spirit go. Take Mother Earth and dance with her, and pass the day with Father Time, for when you...
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Becoming (her)
She looks in the mirror, and stares in the glass. Memories visual, the haunting has passed. Recalling events, reflected in front, and wonders quite simply, when did I become? © Becoming...
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Memory Lane
electric guitars trysts in cafe bars balmy summer days memory’s a deep purple haze thirty years of I love you’s Pearl teardrops soak through LP’s and RP’s Creme Eggs and...
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Are You a Ghost?
Are you a ghost? Taunting my memories possessed by a thought fleeting shadow lurking in the corner of my heart haunted by circumstances
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