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the remains of us collect dust
on the kitchen counter
and i have stacked our memories
in bookshelves, tucked away,
dog-earing my favourite pages
and scribbling out the tragic chapters
you know the ones.
How like me
to hide away nostalgia
but refuse to dispose of it
Sentimentality, i always joked,
would be the ruin of us
and how like you
to prove me wrong
and leaving,
just as the story
was getting good
 Feb 2016 MS Lim
Pixievic
There's a small forest of paperwork
Taking root upon my life
Can someone please send me a woodsman
To help cut it down to size!

(C) Pixievic 2016
I should be working ..... but I appear to be reading poetry! ******!!
 Feb 2016 MS Lim
Sarah
Strangers
 Feb 2016 MS Lim
Sarah
Once we were strangers in a world of anonymity.
Two souls. Two hearts.

We met, we loved each other, we were connected.
One soul. One heart.

Without knowing it, we rescued each other.
From getting lost.
 Feb 2016 MS Lim
Ophelia
Touch
 Feb 2016 MS Lim
Ophelia
I need your touch
Like a drowning man
Needs air
 Feb 2016 MS Lim
Paul Hansford
Ready to unfold from dawn's cold grey mist,
She'll know to follow nature's sweet path,
To reveal the beauty that only she hath,
Accepting the light that she cannot resist.

She opens with colours that call tender touch,
A spiral of petals that twist from the core,
Silky pages that open in her moment, not before.
Who knew that a rose could hold so much?

Come close and breathe the sweet perfume she holds,
The promise of nectar hidden inside,
The honey she gives, her treasure, her prize,
More fragrant than incense, more precious than gold.

Her petals now open, but the bud always there,
Holding her strong, yet so fragile and fair.
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