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A W Bullen
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A W Bullen
A W Bullen
Nov 2023
Hush-Wing
Time..
slipping
from the parapets
a rorschach night
laid out below
If mine
is but a little while
then yours is not
for me to know
so, glittering
away, we leapt
from all convention
disavowed
restoring
golden folklores
with our whispering
of owls
shhhh
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A W Bullen
Oct 2023
Sibila
We'll tell the Keepers
of the gates
that guard our varied heavens
-we weren't engaged in cruel crusades-
we just supplied the weapons-
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A W Bullen
Oct 2023
Ember
Wind
has banked,
-grown little teeth-,
portentous new alignments
meet , exaggerated,
weather veined,
behind impatient
branches
Flames divine
entrancing shivers
breath, a ghost
an omen passed,
fragments carried,
Icy river
Holly-crowned,
She dances
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A W Bullen
Oct 2023
The bloke upstairs
All I've seen
are legs
of the bloke
upstairs
believe me,
they are snappable
I've knocked
his door
he doesn't
answer
loots
my calm
with his
bass enhancer
Look,
I'm an affable
kind of guy,
but ..
this ******
is testing my
patience
I want him
to die
Not so he rots
in a puddle of snot
-I still claim a frisson of feeling-
plus I don't want the hell
of that festering smell
or the pain of repainting
the ceiling...
I don't try
to be mean,
to stir-up a scene
but the grinning is
hard to pretend,
so I'll sit on my hands
and mutter those plans
for that thin *******
to end.
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A W Bullen
Oct 2023
Dally
Pre somnabulation
I would taste the breeze
tease
the dew-lit louche
revealing airborne revelations
tingle,
soft of foot, divining
cool uncomplication
drinking deeply of
the hill-born wood
contented
in
passive eccentricity,
I celebrated unison
a humbling becoming
only dignity condones
When transitory laxity
forgave my foreign callowness
I took the private brook
to where the quiet rooks row home..
once upon-a -time
louche/ absinthe
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A W Bullen
Oct 2023
Out of focus
All this life
has left me staring,
passed me by as I was standing,
hands in pockets, thinking,
planning, something
I'm unsure of.
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A W Bullen
Sep 2023
Bone Idols
Long time - no sea
and feelings of the ocean-pull
have gained the upper hand,
There is nothing here
in writing,
just pigeon- breasted
righteousness,
increasing stipulations
All that meadowsweet
and moonshine ran,
to desert sand androgony
sank lower
than the daily dip
of fire's head in middle distance
Dizzy social densities
imported inner-city syndromes
proffer only impotence
of temporary reprieve
seems hard to bed
the disenchanted,
sickening for cigarettes
for solitary epithets
-ennui-
So, hide away
demands that breed
the need to know the answers
Been peeking
round the prism bars
empowered sense of self defeat
For sugared-melon hedonism
far too many lines have soured
Long,
Long time - no sea...
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