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 Jul 2020 Ale
Glenn Currier
I wonder if poetry is
a humble attempt to reduce
the magnificence or terror of dreams
to words.
 Jul 2020 Ale
Mary Gay Kearns
Pushing the half dozen sodden flakes of corn
Round the bottom of the Willow pattern dish
The woman wondered how she could endure
The continual daily struggle to exist and enjoy.

There was always Evelyn with her warm heart
And Florence curly in the sunlight smiling out
Two little precious gems conjured from a book
Always ready to give whatever they were able.

Love Grandma Mary **
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
paper walls
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
i guess i was the one
foolish enough to believe
that maybe
we might have made it,
to prove fate wrong
and outlive even our own fears.
now i see that i
was just another form
of therapy to you,
an escape from the every day
a hiding place from your demons.
i wish i had realised
that i was just another idea
before i pulled down my walls
one brick at a time,
forgetting that my heart
was only ever
made from paper.
- i never wanted to say goodbye but now i see you already did.
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
morte
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
now i understand,
that i have always
been enough

i just wasn't
enough for you.
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
depression cherry
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
and i loved you
in a golden crescendo
of moonlit sunsets
sweet amber kisses
and honey soaked lips.
- if i welcome death, it is because i know i have loved so intensely that it ate me whole.
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
sanctuary
 Jul 2020 Ale
rk
i can no longer remember
your voice with such clarity
when you'd say my name
in those moments
of temptation
yet i have learned
that hands can remember too,
they twitch and burn
feeling for you in the dark
searching for the fingers
that once wrapped around them
like a phantom limb
the memory of you
scorched into them
too deep to be lost.
- each night my soul leaves my body and finds you.
 Jul 2020 Ale
Poetic justice
I have grown alot,
In many different ways,
No longer do I have Such hidden rage, Instead I let it out,
My thoughts are the ink That glides across the page,
My soul is no longer Locked in a cage, And even after I'm gone,
My mind is immortal,
It will last for an age....
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