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150 · May 2022
Mistaken
Frances Raeburn May 2022
You have not mistaken me
for someone you used to know
You have mistaken me
for someone  I used to be
150 · Nov 2021
Middle
Frances Raeburn Nov 2021
There is a hole
right there
in the middle bit of me
like a Russian doll
a life within a life
barely breathing
don’t come too close
you could fall right in
deeply
into the empty of me
Others have.
Save yourself
Walk away..,,..
149 · Oct 2020
and about
Frances Raeburn Oct 2020
I am just about
And almost
A fully formed person
Thing is
When I am just about there
Either you
Or me
or they
Keep getting in my  way
149 · Jun 2023
Surely
Frances Raeburn Jun 2023
Leave it now
at this late hour
leave it at the door
in the morning
the sunrise will
surely scourge its power
148 · Apr 2022
Suspect
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
I have many many
friends
and a few of them
I suspect
are real.
148 · May 2022
Bits
Frances Raeburn May 2022
Let me give you the bits of
the conversation
we should not be having
so we can decide
together
which bits are worth
saving.
148 · Jul 2022
Say
Frances Raeburn Jul 2022
Say
after all this time
and all these years
after ten million words
and all these tears
suddenly
I realise
there is nothing
left to say.
148 · Mar 4
Son
Son
Ambition fades
with age
yet, I  know
if I have one shred left
inside me
it would be
to be
a little bit more
like you.
148 · Aug 2020
About
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
This just might be what it’s really
All about
Not the great brilliant lights
Or the dark desperate lows
The rights
The wrongs
The lies
The unfolds
This just might be
all it’s about
Nothing more than
Sitting here
Being still
drinking gin
Alone
With you
148 · Jan 2022
Big poem
Frances Raeburn Jan 2022
Someone once told me
a poem should be long
rhythm and thyme
and take a long time
so love and regret
pain and explain
delete and blame
repeat and destain
let go and restrain
sunsets and more
two people or four
fall down then soar
sweetness and gore
does this really say more
than
I love you
whatever the score!
148 · Sep 2022
Almost Holy
Frances Raeburn Sep 2022
I waited until then
like you asked
floundering
haplessly
hopefully
half assed
before realising
there is no point
waiting
hopeful
wholesome
holy.
148 · Nov 2024
Energy
Frances Raeburn Nov 2024
heal me
you said
I hear you
I said
save me
you said
I will try
I said
but actually
I haven’t got
the
friggin’ energy
I said.
148 · Apr 2022
sometime
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
sometimes
love stumbles
and sometimes
I stumble after it.
148 · Apr 2021
Instead
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
Write from the heart
Otherwise
let the words go
unsaid
instead
147 · Nov 2022
Question
Frances Raeburn Nov 2022
When autumn reigned
and blew golden bronze tumble leaves
right to my door
it reminded me
of how you loved
golden bronze tumble leaves
at the door
Do you
still?
147 · Oct 2023
Weep
Frances Raeburn Oct 2023
my words weep
tears
my tears weep
words
147 · Jan 2023
Kids
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
You are all grown now
I can see
You know a million more things than me
Give me a minute
to say goodbye
you will always be
two feet taller than me
147 · Jan 2023
Ledge
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
I fled
It’s true
the ground beneath me
was giving way
I couldn’t find a ledge
to help me stay
146 · Dec 2023
Believe
Frances Raeburn Dec 2023
those who believe in love
take one step to the right
those who are burnt
take one step to the left
those who still believe
stampede straight ahead
headlong
into the middle .
146 · Jun 2021
Room
Frances Raeburn Jun 2021
There is nothing
yet everything
wrapped up tightly
about to explode
lives will implode
right here
right now
bang in the centre
of this room
146 · Sep 2020
Desperate
Frances Raeburn Sep 2020
There is a whole world out there
that simply doesn’t care
about your words
or mine
And a big world in here
desperately trying
to write the next
line
146 · Jan 2023
Love
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
I see your love
It stands starkly before me
I can’t reach your love
It hides hidden behind me.
145 · Feb 15
Few
Few
I lost my
point of view
and I only had a few
still I lost them
post them back
you know
I only had a few
145 · Mar 2021
Ink
Frances Raeburn Mar 2021
Ink
When you find yourself
in the inkwell of life
navy dark blue
drowning the light
be glad
you are  but a few
drowning in the liquid
that brings words
to life
144 · Sep 2021
Drip
Frances Raeburn Sep 2021
I know my tears
and my sorrow
drips and drips and drips
like torture upon your brain
know this
it drips on my brain too
144 · Jun 2023
Rumour
Frances Raeburn Jun 2023
I heard what they said
I guess you heard it too
**** ‘em I thought
most of it is true
on the other hand
if only they knew!
144 · Nov 2022
Early
Frances Raeburn Nov 2022
When my world
is too desperately dark
I do what you said
I go to sleep
wake up early
and call you
144 · Sep 2022
Late
Frances Raeburn Sep 2022
It’s late
and we.both know
the stakes are high
the loser
cries.
143 · Nov 2020
Crowd
Frances Raeburn Nov 2020
We can’t be lovers
We can’t quite be friends
We just flaunt around
Enemies
instead
dressed  up
like clowns
prancing about
dancing
endlessly
effortlessly
entertainingly
betraying
Challanging
the braying
crowd.
143 · Jan 2021
Already
Frances Raeburn Jan 2021
Don’t say you are leaving
I am already at the door
don’t say you are bleeding
I already hold the sore
don’t say you didn’t mean it
I already know the score
don’t say you are sorry
I already
already
already
I already
love you more
143 · Feb 2024
If only
Frances Raeburn Feb 2024
Sleep easy, he said
if only
but never again with you
I thought.
143 · Nov 2022
Family
Frances Raeburn Nov 2022
Don’t fret
go to sleep
I will write
all our wrongs.
142 · Aug 2023
Song
Frances Raeburn Aug 2023
The words that fall from my mouth
should only be for me
yet they rain upon your head
like an untuned symphony
and somehow
you turn my words
into a tune
142 · Jul 2023
Switch
Frances Raeburn Jul 2023
Here’s the truth
I’ve switched the truth
to make you look bad
it’s a small twitch
but enough
to help me sleep well
and happy.
Night all!
141 · Dec 2021
Touch
Frances Raeburn Dec 2021
Nothing means as much
as your touch
when the  world has deserted
me
141 · May 2022
Toxic
Frances Raeburn May 2022
I am looking in your eyes
and smoking  a cigarette
I don’t know which one
is more toxic
you
or the cigarette
141 · Jul 2023
Almost
Frances Raeburn Jul 2023
I love you almost
and I know you almost love me too
how many more years
do we have  to make it through
to make us
almost true.
140 · Aug 2020
Ambitious
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Every wound has a culprit
Every scar knows exactly who they are
You are mine
You hurt
You scarred
Deeply
Inside my heart
Then you moved
As I bled
And bled
Into the dead grey night
Eventually
I made it home
Staggering
Slowly
And lowly
Battle weary
And exhausted
Into
my newly
very well made
Empty
And now ridiculously
Ambitious
Bed.
140 · Apr 2021
Here
Frances Raeburn Apr 2021
We have been here
so many times before
in the name of sanity
and more
please let’s not choose to go
here
anymore
140 · Jan 2023
Happy
Frances Raeburn Jan 2023
Let’s choose
happy
140 · Jun 2022
Time
Frances Raeburn Jun 2022
Time
falls heavy upon us now
where once
it was forever
Time
will make fools of us now
make small
our best endeavour
139 · Aug 2020
Words ( 2)
Frances Raeburn Aug 2020
Words and phrases swirling
Frantically
Inside my head
Given to me so freely
I want to return the gift
So they can dance to another tune
In another time
In another room
I want to set them free
So they can fly
And I can watch them
soaring way up high.
139 · Nov 2023
Lost
Frances Raeburn Nov 2023
I lost myself
the minute and moment
I surrendered
my soul
to you
139 · Feb 2021
Catching
Frances Raeburn Feb 2021
The words
I love you
flow from me
gushing from the heart of me
freely
Yet
sadly
catching
just the side of you
139 · Apr 2022
Us
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
Us
Let me lie in between us
so I don’t have to
become one of
us
139 · Sep 2023
Tears
Frances Raeburn Sep 2023
Do not try to
dry my tears
they have been weeping
for a hundred years
from my eyes
my mothers eyes
and the eyes of others
long gone
and disappeared
139 · Mar 2024
Real
Frances Raeburn Mar 2024
You talk about love like it’s real
like folk can be happy
together
you talk about love
like it’s okay to feel
happy
you talk about love
like it’s real
like things can work out
okay
like no one hates the day
you talk about love
like it’s real
like it could happen anyway
any day
anytime
anywhere
how bizarre
you talk about love like
it’s real.
139 · Apr 2022
Daughter
Frances Raeburn Apr 2022
Let it lie
I know
I hear you
trust me
or not
what do I know
but just
for now
please
maybe
for a minute
let it go
let it lie
and fly.
139 · Nov 2022
You
Frances Raeburn Nov 2022
You
What do people do
when they don’t have
you?
138 · Sep 2022
Children
Frances Raeburn Sep 2022
You grew up
in a haze of yellow sun
champagne glasses
and endless fun
and then you
painfully
excruciatingly
became
You,
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