My sparkle having ochred, dried brittle and vanished underfoot I hide beneath the eiderdown stirring only to fan the embers of the soot Saying said and doing done Now is the silence and I hide beneath the snow…
Song of Goodbye
I never said a word Not even under my breath I didn’t even think it I don’t know what you’ve heard I know the rumours abound The wind spreads them around But I swear I’m not cheating I wouldn’t even know how To abate your suspicions know You won’t know if it’s bait ’til they…
Who Hurts The Most
The valentines we send each other Year on year are just a cover Witness to an ever-growing fear That Cupid who we fed and flourished Will fall to earth now undernourished And love’s young dream will fade and disappear When words we want to hear Are not enough to keep us near When we tear…
Tender Hearts
There are those with hearts so large You can enter without knocking There are those with hearts so large That you only see the half There are those with hearts so frail It could shatter with a touch There are those with hearts too frail to live like you and I With flowers in their…
Gathering Leaves
Words on the tip of finger Spread across medium-sliced lines Sentences hover and linger Freed from the reason that binds Gathering leaves, scattering seeds Hoping that you will find The flowers that punctuate freedom The seconds that syncopate time…
Give Me Your Wings
With your gossamer heart Your translucent eyes Your Rizla thin skin Your filligree mind You poor flightless angel Earthbound by these things You won’t ever learn how to fly ‘Til you give me your wings…
Beauty Lies
From gold to grey Silk turns to leather Pride becoming envy Charm makes way for vanity Well the weather has worn Childbirth has torn Gravity pulled you down to earth by your skin Beauty lies…
Shade
In days when the heat brings a halt to all life And the sun stretched out over fields of ploughed lines And clutched to his heart the speechless vines When the reapers were slayed by the harvest strife Crushed grass beneath bodies laying crucified Alone, upstanding in those days of dust and fire Dragged down…
Misty Roses
You look to me like Misty Roses Too soft to touch You’re too lovely to leave alone If I could be like misty roses I’d love you much You’re too lovely to leave alone…
You Can Never Go Home
Spilled out from the nest Of your feathery throne From one summer’s dream To a winter unknown Burning the bridges That your heart trails behind When you leave you can never go home…
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