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  May 2022     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 13 total

wishing to be gone

Time and memories are running low;
How strange that you’ve let go
Of almost all you knew
And now what’s left is longing to be gone.

The childhood dreams and fears,
The loves you sought and won or lost,
The tears you cried of joy or pain,
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Gift Wrapped

Poem : Gift wrapped

My dearest baby girl….
I wanted to wrap you the perfect life
A box of sparkling happy days….
No tears, no fears, no sighs.
Only -
Nothing really fits.
All the best bits come with awkward edges…
Opposites.
Take...

– by john gordon

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Slipping through their fingers

She wants to give him the gift
Of knowing her

  He longs to take the gift she gives

  And understand
Into his hands she trusts herself…
….And falls

  He cannot hold the form she gives;

  …she falls
...

– by john gordon

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Silent answerphone

Silent answerphone
And silent phone.
Twice silent
In two days.
What’s happening ?
My love
Are your days too good
Too fast ?
Are the memories too tired ?
And your body,
Has your body forgotten ?

Silent phone.
But in the silence
My...

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He was there

He was there;
a moment ago, a decade ago
he was right there ; solid, defined, unique,
passive, proactive, reactive,
sometimes strong, occasionally pathetic.
his life of deeds and dreams
real to him
to those who knew & loved him
those who...

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