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 Apr 2021 Sharon Talbot
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 Apr 2021 Sharon Talbot
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somewhere it is reflected
perhaps it is your shadow
that bounces off the moon
and comes back to you
as wisdom dredged from the depths
of the unassuaged moments of need
that stretched you from one point
to the next
from one lover
to the next
from one room
to the next
from one dream
to the next

we spend our heartbeats freely
the infinite supply of youth
they become more precious
as the grave slowly deepens
what wisdoms do we stuff in our pockets
as we step into the grave
and move on from this life
to the next
I've been drunk for days.
Last year we were to be married -
this year I have a bleeding ulcer
& I cry every morning,
medicated with scotch.
Your name is a meadow.
I surrender to feelings of which I crave,
the thoughts of chance and misbehave.
I surrender tears of love and pain,
memories raw, unfiltered, invade my brain.
I surrender now, I have weakened some,
once the might of many, now just one.
I surrender to the inevitable, I see because I must,
my faith and love in you, I trust.
I was looking for tulips.
I found you, oleander,
deadly nightshade.
Nothing grows in the
darkness that you chose
to live in.
Had I known, I would have
left you to wilt and rot in the sun
Some poems seem to write
themselves;
I just move the pen.
Others, are like lumps
of clay;
they refuse to be molded;
they need moisture and time.
This one is like
a robin that just learned
to use its wings.
It heads west, on a
gentle breeze, into
a tangerine sky.
 Mar 2021 Sharon Talbot
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with you,
i found comfort
in the silence
clocks no longer
counting minutes
every moment timeless


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 Mar 2021 Sharon Talbot
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you
 Mar 2021 Sharon Talbot
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you
its a curious thing;
that now even at it’s end
and through it all,
the sheer ecstasy
and complete heartache
my mind will only
and always remember you
in your most perfect form.
the heart wants;
what the heart wants.
 Mar 2021 Sharon Talbot
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too learn in the teachings
of the lessons not taught,
too bathe in the waters
of the waves that brought;
a feeling of substance
right down to the bone,
and drown in emotions
that where never your own.


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