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69 · Oct 2021
Inside
Frances Raeburn Oct 2021
I am laughing out loud
this much is true
Please know
I am dying inside
69 · Feb 2024
Marc with a C
Frances Raeburn Feb 2024
of all the smiles
ever given to me
and there’s been a few
the best smile
was the one you gave to me
in ‘94
as you ran to me
arms outstretched
love unattached
straight into my arms
with your love for me
written all over
the man I knew
you would eventually be.
68 · Oct 2020
Heart ( kids)
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
I tell them everyday
Be careful who you give your heart to
But they give it anyway
I can’t complain
I did the same
68 · Sep 2024
Cold light
Frances Raeburn Sep 2024
I see you now
in the cold light
of day
and I remember
how much
we have
forgotten
68 · Feb 2022
Untitled
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
I inhale  you
your love
oxygen to
my weary bones
68 · Nov 2021
You
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
You
I don’t know anyone
who is seventy
and thanks be to ****
neither do you !
68 · Nov 2024
Parts
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
We still have
a small chance
a window, if you will
to be
the kind of family
we always wanted
to be
that we should be
but the clock
is ticking
and ticking
and ticking
so loudly
it is beginning  to silence
the decent and real
tiny parts of me
68 · Dec 2020
because
Frances Raeburn Dec 2020
Not sure if I could ever
drink away
the pain
or the hurt
of your memory
the scattering
you left behind
the tattering
of my heart
you scattered
without care
or cause
never  caring
for a minute
the meaning of
because
68 · Mar 2024
Girl
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
I am totally in love
with the girl I set out to be
if you see her
please send her back
posthaste
I miss her.
68 · Jul 2024
Shout
Frances Raeburn Jul 2024
I heard you called
I didn’t hear
someone told me
next day
too late
next time
if you need me
shout.
68 · Apr 2022
Love
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
I love you
mostly
because of
who I am
when you hold my
hand.
67 · Nov 2023
Dance
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
I don’t care
about the money
I just really really
honestly
believe me now
I just really really
care
about the dance.
67 · Jan 8
Next
this much I know
if I know
nothing else
there is always
a next.
67 · Jan 1
Sometimes
sometimes
I get lost
inside
the deepest deep
deep parts  of me
and I have to say
it’s not the worst place
to be!
67 · Jun 2021
Thought
Frances Raeburn Jun 2021
Words flow from me
he said
I can write a poem
without a thought
Words escape me
I said
I can’t write a poem
with a thought
67 · Mar 2021
Ignite
Frances Raeburn Mar 2021
It is the eve of reckoning
I fear
Speak now
Speak out
Speak loud
or quietly
suffocate in your brothers
sighs
66 · Mar 3
N York
New York
you were always
too much
or was that just
me?
66 · Mar 1
Child
when you tell me
you are happy
I will close my eyes
until them
I am wide awake
66 · Apr 2021
Hold
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Hold your breath
We’re going down fast
and deep
hold your breath
and me
we are sinking so fast
it’s not possible
we could
ever last
66 · Jan 2023
Teach
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
I don’t know who
I  should be
without you
come home
and teach me
66 · Sep 2020
Locked
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
There is no safe rock
No sane mind
There is no easy route
do not look behind
There is no solid block
No ticking clock
There is no way forward
Do not break the lock
66 · Feb 13
Guess
you said you
didn’t mean it
I guess
that makes it
all okay.
66 · Nov 2024
Final Goodbye
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
so
this is what a final Goodbye  feels like
the knowledge that there will be
no
right of reply
no
thinking it over tomorrow
and deciding we were wrong
no
we said too much
no
let’s keep in touch
no
lets fume for a week
and have coffee next Friday
no
let’s talk it out again
and say sorry for playing games
this
is the game
that
was the game
we lost
no
chance to regain
you are gone
from this earth
so
this is what a final goodbye feels like.
66 · Apr 2021
Up
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Up
I am just a girl
standing in front of a boy
and asking him
to wake the ****
up
66 · Dec 2021
Queue
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
Let the first one
amongst us
without sin
Throw the first stone
My god
Look at the queue!
66 · Nov 2020
Difference
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
Nothing can change my
indifference
to our
difference
except perhaps
a sudden quick change
Of opinion
by you
66 · Oct 2021
Can
Frances Raeburn Oct 2021
Can
Can I fall in love with you
again
can I turn the last page back
again
can I take last night back
again
can I rewrite tomorrow
again
can I unsay my words
again
can I play happy ever after
again
can I remember who we are
again
can I see you anew
again
can I be me for you
again
can I fall in love with you
again
66 · Feb 21
Family
I love this
not sure of anything else
but sure of this
I love this
I love the this is us ly ness
of this
and us,
66 · Nov 2024
JR
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
JR
You never asked me
to dance
I just wanted
to dance
from the moment
I met you
65 · Jan 26
midnight
You left
just a beat
before midnight
and I
woke up
to a brand new day.
65 · Mar 2024
Post it
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
somewhere
along the line
our life got lost
I couldn’t find it anywhere
although I searched
neither could you
God knows, I tried
you didn’t
I gave up
but if perchance
you find it
or even try
post  it to me
you have my address.
65 · Apr 2021
Paradise
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
We have a little strand of
paradise
fragile
silvery
beautiful
rare
barely ours
hardly touch it
don’t strain
do not breath
or it will surely
break
into tiny fragments
of what our paradise
was supposed to
be
65 · Nov 2020
Us
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
Us
I will leave now
Quietly
Without fuss
But I want you to know
I am leaving
Just for us
65 · Sep 2020
Bared
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
I will lay myself down now
Although I am scared
I will lay myself down now
So you can be heard
I will lay myself down now
Our souls jointly bared
I will lay myself down now
Today we are paired
65 · Jan 2021
No matter
Frances Raeburn Jan 2021
Yesterday fuels
Tomorrow
no matter how we fight
today excuses yesterday
no matter how we fight
every day
lays claim to both
No matter how we fight
65 · Dec 2024
Never
Frances Raeburn Dec 2024
If I live to be two  hundred and ten
actually if I live until
next Tuesday
I will never love again
as I have loved you.
65 · Jul 2020
Pickpockets!
Frances Raeburn Jul 2020
My heart is in my pocket
I keep it there
It’s almost safe
But there are pick pockets
Everywhere
On every street
At ever turn
They are quick
They are sleek
They steal hearts
with slight of hand
And magic dust
Then disappear
And leave you
heartless
And torn
battle weary
And worn
65 · Mar 2022
Days
Frances Raeburn Mar 2022
these are the days
I know you don’t believe it
in all honesty
neither do I
yet still
somehow
is it possible that
these are the days?
65 · Dec 2021
Rebecca
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
She reminds me everyday
of who I used to be
and how much I had
to say
What joy!
65 · Nov 2023
Guises
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
All I can do
as the red *** sun rises
is smile
at the night we just had
even  given
it’s guises
64 · Aug 2024
Boo
Frances Raeburn Aug 2024
Boo
I could spend all night
and deep into tomorrow
listening to your song
You are a melody
awaiting a tune
hang on!
64 · Jan 2024
Walk
Frances Raeburn Jan 2024
Do not drip feed  me
your love
I am not an infant
I can walk.
64 · Nov 2024
Call
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
the last time you called
you said you missed me
the last time you missed me
was when you called.
64 · Nov 2023
Fear
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
Tonight
I would like to topple the world
so we all fell out
into the abyss
together
and we were all scared
together
no colour no creed
in the mist of all that fear
I would grab your hand
I know I would
and I know
You would grab mine
too
64 · Dec 2024
Confusion
Frances Raeburn Dec 2024
and then
someone said
why don’t you marry me
instead?
64 · Nov 2021
Nothing
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
There’s a whole lot of nothing
happening in this house
Tonight
64 · Feb 2022
Wallpaper
Frances Raeburn Feb 2022
I will pick up the pieces
sweep the pain away
decorate the hall
just as it was before
wallpaper over the feelings
clean the horror from the ceiling
but I can’t promise
there will be
a speedy
healing
64 · Dec 2021
Knew
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
I was happy
deep in my heart
the first night I knew you
the knew of you
still
flows
effortlessly
all over me
64 · Sep 2023
Don’t
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
don’t write me a letter
you know
I never learned how to read
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