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Loss
…and the hourglass / skittles past the wings / of my prayers and…
Imprints
…a discarded bag free wheeling / in the bitter wind…
Emerald
in my dreams I am always searching for her / hands swirled in blood, an eternal spiral…
Bereft
as we race over tarmac / past milestones of memory…
Unity
tears in the veil: / colours rip and merge / across the aether / —becoming one
Ebony
First contact is / Unexpected, alien / Impossibly warm…
Hourglass /Flight
red petals slowly collect into a vase / like grains of sand shifting in an hourglass / —borrowed time…
11
the veil of dusk separating / your world and mine…
Bubbles
Leftover bubbles of dissonance / —burst; disappear…
Salt
Beads slowly drop from the sky / A crimson waterfall of rain…
Skin
The trace of you / The feel of you / Lingers…
Orion
Silver Orion / Imprinted on deepest blue; / Sword gleaming with / Unearthly fire…
Dew
and the velveteen dark / is strangely soothing / disquiet-ing / reflective / fertile…
Beads
…soaking / into the rich red earth / like falling leaves…
Written
i write the legend of you / on the pages of my heart—
White
White mists / Diffuse into / Saffron skies…
Ghosts
We regret / We have no vacancy / For ghosts…
Dissonance
An arrow— / A shadow / Of distant / Discordant beats…
Quintet
You are smoke and moonshine / In the whisper of leaves / A butterfly kiss…
Pockets
Broken glass littered to the horizon / A sheaf of crimson poppies in her hands…
Walls
Again and again, harder, faster / Wanting to dent, break, express / The landscape of her inner chaos…
Sailboat
Silhouetted against sun / She stands, a figure posed / In meditative calm…
Sand
Tangible reminders / Of you, amongst…
Friction
a catalyst of metamorphosis / polishing, scrubbing at / both sides of the mirror…
Exorcism
—skeletons again go away, shoo…
Carousel
dusky petals rain from the sky / harbingers and scavengers of pain…
Actaeon
Beware of Selene / And the bonds / Of your obsession…
Indigo
The sky reflects like an agèd mirror / Our dreams and passions and / All the hope I ever knew…
One
Woven through every strand / Of the double helix…
You
as i sew the shreds of my soul / into / a single strand…
Ocean
In the black sand, and you wept tears — / The salt of the ocean, and hid your fears; / And the floor creaked open, the glow / Of eter…
55
The 55’s have morphed. / Not permanently, / But constantly in flux…
Time
Not for me, I remain there, at that moment / “I’m sorry to tell you…” / I’m fixed here, in a place I never th…
Balancing
In harmony / …glimmers eternity…
Adoration
Morphing the scenery at view / From temporal incarnation / To all that divine and true…
Redux
All around the silent still wraps / Shadows, long, grey and faintly mocking…
If
Through fields / Of ethereal flame…
Before
So obliterate the stars and crown the moon, / Strip the sun bare of her glory; / Spin the heavens along a curve, / For none may stand again…
Witness
I smell the falling rain / And the bloody pain…
Wings
I ache for the night and star strewn sight, / Low whispers of silence and low ripples / Of delight; I ache for the moon…
Why
Royal bruises / Hollow my gaze…
Love
Forged from the fires / Of a sidereal sun…
Seasons
You / With your eyes / Of cornflower blue…
Friend
Full of fire / Blessed with grace…
Alone
Its quiet now / Peaceful… / Is this my freedom / Free…
Reunion
Time holds no sway in this hour; enchanted is this place…
Wasteland
Only a lasting / Enmity for what is / And tortured regret / For what should have been…
Believe
Nowhere to turn / Memories burn / Of broken promises…
Light
Out of darkness enter light / Warmly welcoming, piercingly bright…
Searching
Whispering love / Rapturous joy / Such magic…
Homing
Whither we fall / From Grace / You and I…
Acceptance
Intolerance and anarchy, / Breed spores…
Shadowland
Tender is the light of the night / By which I sleep deeply / And loving is her caress…
Hymn
Only joy / From pain / Only shelter / From the rain…
Flawed
She noticed only the imperfections / Saw only the failures and the flaws…
Healing
My journey was mine alone to navigate / Solitary and simple, no complications…
Fool
Fool for yearning / Fool for burning…
Prayer
My hands are worn / Grant me solace / To make it / To the morn…
Faith
Softer than silk and longer than thread…
Gypsy
Enchantingly elusive / Like a Romany dream…
Stranger
I watched familiar faces / As they lived and died / And visited their graves / Where I knelt and cried…
Recognition
And it touches something deep within / Like the gentle piercing of a stare…
Deception
Depicting the secrets of the mages; / The wizards Merlin, Blaise and Kell…
Angel
The inner beauty you cannot hide / Mysterious and magical / As the rising tide…
Gift
The atmosphere is thick as heady as wine / As I surrender to you our souls entwined…
Answer
Behind her is a world artificial / Where avarice and anger…
Hope
Winter arrives complete in procession / Deadly grace bestowing silver: / Sedate, ornate, exacting in precision…
Passenger
There are paths all around but I am confined / To one shadowed view…
Justice
Her face saddened by the years / Of countless cuts and grazes…
Truth
Each confronting our own demons, / Our dreams and desires…
