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Broken by Hand

What heart, my love What bitter chill That breaks the blade To wish you ill The words that cut Brutal and sharp In unkind speak To split a heart And take you pleasure With joyous laugh Cracked and broken To know thy craft What heart in shade What frozen core Night-time looming For evermore. Copyright …

Listen

The rain falls as it always falls on unfinished tales No one noticing the shadows that stretch away from the long light Where once the dragons danced on the tongues of men and legends were born, No one misses them Or the rubbish discarded and uncomplicated In a testament to modern living, Plastic lingering forevermore …

Shades

The moon defines us In our whispers, Forbidden. This boarded house, Papered in other people’s memories, Layered in time with graffiti, Is our haven against the outside, Against all that is so black and white And the rain that curses the broken window pane. Upstairs a tap still drips, Moments, heartbeats, seconds And we steal …

Abstract Words

Let us talk not in colours but in words. The abstract of our minds making pictures we cannot hold, I am drowning at your side In a pool of friends, smiles and laughter That is as tissue paper on the wind, Tattered and ragged. The gild of this life is naught but a cage And …

Winter’s Bride

I am weary And winter stands at my door With a heavy strike of its cane Challenge each new dawn, Crushing the paper of my dreams And stealing into my memories. Should I succumb, unbolt the lock? Should I wither and wane, Bent double against its chill? For I wear its colours now, Show its …