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Winter Flowers
Winter flowers are small and hardy.
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They lack the ostentation of summer blooms.
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They are quiet,
1m
Aug 19, 2022
A Villanelle
Were I a schoolboy,
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summer'd pass me by.
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All day I'd sleep,
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content without the Sun.
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But I a
2m
May 27, 2015
A Briefcase Full of Fear
You frighten me.
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Plain and simple, I am frightened.
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I have a briefcase full of fear,
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that I ha
6m
Mar 17, 2015
TELEGRAM TO MY HEART
MY DEAR HEART. STOP. IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG. STOP. YOU HAVE GROWN COLD WITH HURT. STOP. YOUR DRUM IS O
1m
Mar 17, 2015
Entwined; An Aria
Since you have already plucked my heart strings,
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let us make music together.
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Whisper to me at ni
3m
Mar 17, 2015
Quietly, she said
Quietly, she said
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(you don’t know
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how beautiful
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you are
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I laughed,
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because I was frightene
2m
Dec 13, 2014
notes on being dragged backwards through a hedge
Relax.
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I know your instincts are screaming to fight.
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This is a mistake.
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You will only hurt you
5m
Dec 13, 2014
take them
You've told me you want my words.
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Then take them, please.
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I don't want them anymore.
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The way t
2m
Dec 13, 2014
put together from a bar receipt
Those twin bards.
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Since pining bites us,
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we taint our tales
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with lace and gin.
1m
Dec 13, 2014
never enough time
There is never enough time.
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How many words
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have gone unsaid?
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Forgotten
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by the light of day.
1m
Dec 13, 2014
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