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If I really had

as much common sense

and enlightenment

as I should have,

I'd forsake all This for

a salt cave and temple bell.



Sara Fielder © Nov 2021
 Nov 2021 A W Bullen
L B
Need
 Nov 2021 A W Bullen
L B
I need

...but have been too long alone
untouched by desire
the presumption of love
in joints of dust –the lame of lust

So...

Unseen
Years creep by
Silent, numb

No one remembers
who I was

Raising my eyes
to the window—
–a flock of sparrows rise as one
into a gray sky
of mind

Beauty left by the back door of day
unnoticed in fading light

A dull ache
is all
anything done to the best of your ability is a poem.


Sara Fielder © Oct 2021
 Oct 2021 A W Bullen
Brett
Set your sights out west, my friend
And know that on your back
Will always rest the dawn. Follow not
These golden roads paved by fools
Where every toll asks payment from
The only treasure one would hate to lose.
Pull the reigns on your hurried pace, and
Sing to silence when it calls your name.
 Oct 2021 A W Bullen
Yenson
We but pity the sellers of discontents
the stragglers from the lowlands
in fertilised inadequacy and talentless soil
carrying in lame hands glossed dirt of twisted minds
reeking unhappiness in distorted parcels they hawk envy baskets
stirring broths of miseries made from handed down family recipes
cooked on brimstones in hate kitchens they seek buyers
see the hot gloom they rustle up in doom
for sale at cost price or free
all they want is to share their miseries
Dad died 38 years ago, and I'm still
looking for him.


Sara Fielder © Sept 2021
 Oct 2021 A W Bullen
N
3
 Oct 2021 A W Bullen
N
3
Next to my pillow,
I keep a bottle
of her perfume

All of my longings are
for her small hand
holding mine

My heart still aches,
but only for her

And my poems only end
with her
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