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Michael Edwards Jan 2019
A new life promised
Feverish preparations
Dreams may soon be true.

Grim resolution
An impediment declared
Marriage disavowed.
Michael Edwards Jan 2019
Illumined by the embers glow
that glimmer still in darkest tracts
as hope falls damp on smouldering coal
where victims of the bowstring lie.

By natures impulses that wane.
and truth grains fail in barren lands
the pledges made are all transgressed
by solemn doctrines entertained.

All hope contained in crescent form
is tossed upon unquieted seas
which wash the shores of solitude
where blood falls cold on wave-wet stone.

These places not for novice eyes
No hope to consummate repose
No gold to glisten on the hand.
Michael Edwards Jan 2019
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I engage my thoughts.
I reflect my beliefs.
My mind
My soul.

I paint with my brush.
I write with my pen.
My hand,
My wrist.

I conceive
I devise
I create.
I am primarily an artist but this poem also reflects my interest in poetry.
Michael Edwards Jan 2019
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Gaunt  trees in skeleton  reach down
their shadowed fingers crawl and grasp
forgotten stones and empty urns.

Where centuries of pain lie trapped
and empty hands reach out
for earthly title dispossessed

Primeval fear and piercing wail
the earthless fate of those beneath
denied the arches of the sky.
Michael Edwards Jan 2019
Be
.
Night
start breaking
be  gone



Night
so dark
start breaking
fade away
be gone
be morning



So dark
fade away
be morning
Michael Edwards Jan 2019
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A grating key,
a yielding lock
a ticking clock.

A grating key,
a pensive look
a yielding lock
a proffered hand
a ticking clock
a smile of glee.

A pensive look
a proffered hand
a smile of glee.
Michael Edwards Jan 2019
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I have long been fascinated
by incessant oscillation
which starts
in a vision
of the human condition.

Futilile decadence
seeks new synthesis.

Postmodern discourse
recylcling the culture
will transform soon
in a modern structure
with spatial forms testament
soon to be frozen
where all futures epitaphs
float by the dozen.
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