What is love?

Fills the emptiness

Breaks the wave

Turns the head

Twists the fate

Destroys the expected

Shapes the form

Spoils the beauty

A silent call

Rouses the sleeping

Leadens the heart

Haunts my spirit

When we are apart

© Katy Hughes 2012

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The Oak Tree

Looking up

while you lay on me

I tried to grab

a falling leaf

but I missed

I couldn’t quite reach

the wish that fluttered past

in the breeze

When I promised forever did you feel time stop?

weaving and crossing

memories gently sway

between the branches

until you spoke

we will make it ours

this...

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Secret

Me:

The moon lies beautiful

half veiled behind the clouds

it dares not shine as a whole

muted in its lair

You:

The quiet forbidden love,

nestled in the shadow of tomorrow

Waits patient to be born Brittle,

but not yet broken

Both struggle for their moment in the light

© Katy Hughes 2012

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Hatton Locks

I tread the towpath in anticipation

The breeze cool, the sun bright.

Swirling together in hope and indecision

The grasses brush against and tease my skin

A fateful silence filled with intuition

I wait by the café, butterflies outside and within

Texts exchanged and you decide

That opportunity wins your mind

One tea, one cappuccino, man...

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This world, another time

I was Caitlin to your Dylan

I was katymonster to your kitten

You were the dark lord to my little goth whore

Lost in the characters of our creation

We were each others exception

To the usual norms and rules behind this door 

We discovered our darkest fantasies

And lived in our wildest dreams

In a chaotic chasm of love and s...

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I forgive you Ruth for hurting me. Now I must move on and go far away from you. I’m getting married to my warrior friend. Please don’t be mad with me. I think you’d approve and like Natalie. She loves gothic music and even has a band called Mayo, never mind her tattoos and love of flying. Like you, she speaks to me in my dreams. Unlike you, she won’t ever hur...

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Maybe it's a sin

so much to love,

forget about all,

for my love to starve.

Or it's heavens gift

about you to think,

love as a sweet nectar

from your lips to drink.

I can even be

for my love a slave,

all can be with me,

but you should be save.

If our God can judge,

I will  pray for you

and the words of salvage

w...

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Sonnets are meant to be about romance

and love.

You know? All that's good.

But why should form be contained,

can one not make love to the page

in their own expression?

I can,

and will.

Imagination like a dodgems car,

wild yet bumpy.

And I guess that's what love is,

you can try to steer in the right direction

but there will always be obstacl...

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                                           Beam

     I am thinking of you,

Your sultry ways and promise,

Your honest approach to many

Of all our beings and your compassion

For Earth’s children

And I’m seeing things

Not recognised in past tense;

Causes, torture and

I wish ten thousand of you

For every entity made evil,

     Ten thousand to ...

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Who needs paper to declare what your heart can?

Who needs a ring in place of a loving hand?

Who needs the approval of government or God

when two consenting adults hold the key to true salvation?

Love is the salvation that unlocks our potential,

marriage merely confines it to one form.

But if I were to ever conform,

I would do it for you.

The th...

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I struggle to be – as I see.

Lies become truth-ingrained.

Reality branches snapped from life's tree.

I struggle to be – as I see.

How I long for us all to be free,

though in sentience I'm pained.

I struggle to be – as I see.

Lies become truth-ingrained.

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