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Follow The Skies
I let a little lightning leave my lair,sprinkled across the air until the sky is high off my mischief.She knows that I’ve been bound to break the rules,with my chocolate button stare, that keeps me out of trouble,and I have often suspected that she finds the whole idea quite seductive. I break her out of…
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Pillow Talk
Breathing softly on the pile of pillows to my left, with closed eyes and a slightly ajar jaw, the face that launched a thousand love songs, filling my head with notes and melodies every time she was found in my gaze. Many moons ago, she ripped the rose quartz from my right hand’s mirror, sitting…
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Grandma
The daughter of an industrial town,her mind and ambition flowed as fast as the much watched waves of the Mersey,and she was much maligned,as clever little girls often are,but they are the kind of girls that build the strongest women. Running across the bridge to Runcorn,dark hair flowing and glowing in the moonlit wind,the world…
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Checking Out
I wrote of demons and their dreams, falling awake as the night nestled into a deep sleep and was replaced by the sun. The blossoms made a bed in my black tresses, and the stress of holding the pen became too much to bear, so I let it fall from my hands, hearing it clatter…
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Love Is A Curse
I am cursed to cry,crystal, clandestine tears,because my eyes miss my mistress,and nothing can fix the fever that breaks and regroups,like a relentless army, when she is not by my side. My lot in life was light until she let herself in the open front door,that waited with hopeful eyes,for some kind of company,closing whenever…