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Fairytale
He’d built a life’s path brick by brick
Held together by sand and stick
It rivalled her wall of crumbling stone
They stood together completely alone
She felt she knew him all of his life
But couldn’t understand the edge of the knife
Sharpened by resistance, ready to slice
the red thread between them, not once but twice
Once in dreams...
Sunday 30th December 2012 9:41 am
Gentleman Caller
Never expect but always must anticipate
Children now asleep, I am freshly bathed
His fantasy diverting to an eager soliloquy
Gentleman caller
raps my door delicately
Dutifully agitated into dazed acquiescence
He thrusts me forward, a quickening zealous
One hand over mouth, other girdles my belly
Gentleman caller
then politely assaults me
I turn on kettl...
Sunday 23rd December 2012 10:23 am
The Comfort of Strangers at Hatton Locks Car Park
Who is that man
always parked next to us
When we meet early evening
He sits in his seat
Pretending to read a newspaper
While we create mischief
In the back of your car
Who is that woman
Who works in the café
Always friendly and curious
She asked us once
“What we were doing here so late?”
How could we reply
Who are those...
Sunday 16th December 2012 10:56 am
Reflection
If only I could have a little madness
to release me from these stories.
Are you my sanity and my truth?
From a sin to a beginning
I continue devoted to endure
role of poetess and the whore
Could I, and did I
really write you into my life?
© Katy Hughes 2012
Saturday 8th December 2012 9:13 am
Banished to Eden
We blend into each other’s colours
begging serpent’s curiosity of insidious skin.
Sullen hand removed, reveals scars in their beauty
motherhood replaced by conjured virgin within
Love’s chameleon tongues a hedonism
anxious lips kiss curved ribs appled in eye
pole dancing a Jacob’s ladder of debauchery
“Don’t move” you cry, and I’m flung far and wide
...
Sunday 2nd December 2012 10:36 am
Homecoming
Awaited awakening
loose lipped, tight tipped
Injecting deep into me
formaldehyde of jealousy
Rhythmic warm chill
presses on pulsating throat
sticky skin anoints
soothing balm of obssession
Surrender fills silence
thighs pillow dormant anger
your cunning apology
having resentfully missed me
tendrilled fingertip...
Sunday 25th November 2012 10:53 am
On a plane to Bahrain
A seat
Empty beside me
The distant glow
Of the fires below
Your spirit in the smoke
Does form
I nuzzle into
Your right shoulder
You hold my head
And kiss my cheek
“It will be alright.” you smile
Yet the tears still fall
I blink and look again
you are not there at all
© Katy Hughes 2012
...
Sunday 18th November 2012 9:34 am
Mobile
Hearts dangling on a mobile
two apart
two together
no control
swirling, swinging
they turn
this way
that way
clanking, rattling
strung together
ever tangled
never free
whichever way the wind blows
© Katy Hughes 2012
Sunday 11th November 2012 10:30 am
Hidden Agendas
My husband’s lover is jealous of me
My husband is jealous of you
I am jealous of your wife
And she doesn’t have a clue
Honesty has no part to play
In this age old fashioned game
All delightfully free in delusion
The blood still runs the same
Katypoetess 2013
Sunday 4th November 2012 10:29 am
Wedding Day
Stood alone
grounded by grey rock
papoosed tight in your arms
an altar before the Atlantic
commanding, tumulus ocean
serves as our priest
Two shells
brought from sandy shelter
where we consummated our love
gives us two rings to keep
fraught, fragile commitment
regardless of reality
You whisper
echoed by breaking wave
“Just you and me against the world...
Sunday 28th October 2012 9:35 am
The Cottage
Completely captive, liberated and free
Thick damp walls are constraining me
Shrouding, chilling my pale virgin skin
I kneel at the hearth’s grey altar within
black blood of ghosts run down set stone
Displaying anger against intrusion below
As one of them passes by from the past
“Do you like living with me?” you ask
Simple domesticity lies softly at hand
...
Sunday 21st October 2012 9:49 am
Crossing
Paralysed, struck flat on my back
Irish sea sprays up a malady
leaches through impervious skin
And drifts my reliant apathy
Slow boat rocks, judders beneath
Bearing to shadowed grey land
Clouds reach down tentatively
Brushing the back of my hand
Far away, two children mourn
Loss of a mother who slips
Away with waves to another love
Another time, where...
Sunday 14th October 2012 8:42 am
Reality Check
Amongst the crowd
She never noticed me
Not one glance
But she was all I could see
It seemed unreal
Not quite right
That she was there
She’s your wife
My dreams crushed
My heart torn
I slip away
Irrelevant and small
Amongst the crowd
She never noticed me
Not one glance
But she was all I could see
© Katypoetess 2012
Sunday 7th October 2012 9:42 am
Of Lilith and Anthony
Candle flame doth gently sway
Conjures the demon usually kept at bay
Lover’s felo de se shines bright as the moon
She knows the timing is far too soon
Shriek of hungry vixens surround
She runs to him on frozen ground
Barefoot beneath does not chill
the hunt to have the desired kill
He pulls heavy curtains tight
Blocks out the descending night
She claws ...
Sunday 30th September 2012 9:56 am
By the wayside
Late arrival into meeting room
You look for me amongst
faces you command, commandeer.
I lower my eyes to defend
against the bulleted frontline thoughts
daring an agenda of fantasy.
Sitting opposite; each others target.
Our kindred spirits embrace
only once throughout the hour.
Quick chatter accompanies slow exits;
You need “a word”, and blend me into
a corporate gr...
Sunday 23rd September 2012 9:38 am
Dichotomy
Keep each other captive
Set each other free
Give all there is to offer
Take all there is to see
Make each other happy
Bring each other pain
Give all that is crazy
Take all that is sane
Torture, tease
Starve, nourish
Resist, desire
Hurt, cherish
No time
Forever
© Katypoetess 2012
Sunday 16th September 2012 9:53 am
Conditioning
On the floor
Arms held tight
A dangerous edge
In your passionate eye
Are you beautiful?
Are you smart?
Are you sexy?
Are you mine?
My brow furrows
A hesitant smile
I’m uncomfortable
Say yes and comply
© Katypoetess 2012
Sunday 9th September 2012 8:04 am
Sea
The waves carry you and I to meet
each creeps a little closer to my feet
I retreat, stung by approaching tide
I turn my back and try to hide
Hopelessly pulled back, my mind
succumbs to salty kisses entwined
Turn again with depth and force
of emotion from tempestuous source
Thrown up, smashed and broken
an inevitable part of loves token
...
Sunday 2nd September 2012 8:01 am
Poem from Prague
Your text message:
Where are you when I need your love?
All you offer is the darkness of your rage
If loving me is such a difficult religion
Maybe my death will wipe the anger from the page
Bohemia is here, it’s where it started
And is coiled within these walls
I can hear the venom calling
And drips poison in me, then crawls
Wher...
Sunday 26th August 2012 9:22 am
Character
I’m a poet
a romantic
a fantasist
an illusionist
such will be my downfall
capture me
possess me
let me love you in reality
flatter my writer’s vanity
ink flows and unleashes
the very essence of you
you are every kind of hero
and villain to me
I could never dare
to analyse
I would never want
to write
the final chapter of you
© Katy Hughes 20...
Sunday 19th August 2012 12:38 pm
Immortal
Lay me down on the cold grey stone
and grasp my love to feel less alone
my leaden soul brittles, splinters then breaks
beneath the weight of your heart that aches
Fuck amongst death and in its' place
we create a new life within this space
time does not stop, fused blood will run
to drip on the clouds of setting sun
Katy Hughes 2012
Sunday 12th August 2012 9:27 am
Yow
Yow is you
The you to me
The me to you
That no-one can see
© Katy Hughes 2012
Saturday 4th August 2012 7:18 am
First taste
Warmth rising with my kisses
Shivering your belly softness
And downwards I go
Your hand, tangled tight
In my red messy tresses
The pulse in your wrist
Rhythmic against my neck
I tilt my head upwards
My mouth teasing and begging
for the very essence of you
our eyes briefly meet in expectation
And even lower I go
As I’m eager for the first taste
...
Sunday 29th July 2012 10:24 am
Oxford Street Shopping
You look at him
And then to me
And back again
And smile at me
I catch your eye
And all I know
That you see the love
That cannot be known
You will tell another
Of what you saw
A peculiar couple
That showed you more
Of what can exist
Beyond the norm
A beautiful peace
Amongst the storm
© Katy Hughes 2012
Sunday 22nd July 2012 12:25 pm
Stoned in Soho
A tall green house
On the edge of the square
Three top windows as eyes
Look on us in judgement
A balcony squashed between
Modern monstrosity
Pushing up seeking the sun
As we seek solace
In this anonymous city
I liken your wasted mind
To that corner pub
Dark panelled wood
Etched and knocked with emotion
Holds history behind
A ha...
Sunday 15th July 2012 9:02 am
Hotel Shower
I look up
Diamond light falls downward
The mist stills time
And I catch you
Clasp the love
Wistful and listless
That drips between us
Naked, exposed and alone
Arms holding knees with unease
against the hotel window
A beautiful view over the city
Meaningless lives scurry below
I tell him it the most important year of his lif...
Sunday 8th July 2012 7:59 am
An ode to idling on a Sunday
We snuggle and scruffle
Tangled in each others love
We snooze and snore
Wrapped in each others arms
We nibble and nuzzle
Bound in each others innocence
This time equates
To a divine eternity
content
and wonderfully misspent
With you
© Katy Hughes 2012
Sunday 1st July 2012 12:33 pm
The Joint Poem
Tap, tap,tap
Concentration
Inspiration is your aspiration
You hear nothing but your own thoughts
I’m wasted and watching
Drinking and inhaling
the cruel comfort it gives
Living the low life with you
© Katy Hughes 2012
Saturday 23rd June 2012 9:58 pm
Happy Fucking Father's Day
Relentless June rain juggles summer of performance
To the rolling up of realisation, also someone’s daughter
Equestrian misses whipping mistress, remains martyred loner
Highly billed, sought after, ticketed circus owner
Medium of intuition dangles planchette of indecision
To your high wire of collusion, an in...
Sunday 17th June 2012 6:25 pm
Winter of Discontent
You:
I walked out on a white world,
I changed within it, as the cold remembered me and let me in.
I stumbled towards the cover of the sky,
And found the corpse suspended in the liquid jar.
I bled onto the soft carpet, and the blotting paper puddle oozed
until it disappeared beneath a new layer of lies.
I was the corpse,
Was I looking at my future or my past?
Nothing...
Sunday 17th June 2012 9:38 am
Indifference
Fifty two
Thirty eight
Embraces the world
Wants to escape
Sociable
Self absorbed
Deeply romantic
Goth whore
Keeps it safe
Takes the risk
Something he’s found
Everything she’s missed
Entwined we find
A mercurial kind
Of love,
Understood, undefined
Sunday 10th June 2012 10:37 am
The Bed and Breakfast Test
I asked my husband this morning
To make me marmite on toast
Lightly toasted please
Lots of butter
Lots of marmite
Cut into triangles
Pooling and chaotically spread
It arrives
Two whole slices
Slightly burnt
Marmite and butter evenly spread
I smile gratefully, yet I’m perplexed
If I asked my lover to do the same
Would he get it righ...
Sunday 3rd June 2012 5:08 pm
Little bohemia in Warwick
Remember these times
He urged me earnestly
Does he know that
I lived a dream in one afternoon?
Everything I ever desired
And hoped for came together
In one climatic peace
The empty bottles stand proud
Brimming with translucent love
Wisps of heavenly smoke
dance and tease the air
that surrounds us
Unable to write
I live
© ...
Thursday 24th May 2012 7:36 pm
Extra Hot, Extra Wet, Extra Shot
If only I could capture
the essence of you
Changeable and variable
bitter and sweet
your love's fresh aroma
makes my heart beat
and if I peer down
I can see through
the froth on top
extra hot, extra wet, extra shot
and there you are
all wonderfully mixed up
within my coffee cup
Sunday 20th May 2012 9:15 am
First Night
First Night
A messy room
Two messy heads
“Will you marry me?”
He quietly said
A shadowed celebration
assured but never taken
shrouded and unknown
the beautiful unshown
© Katy Hughes 2012
Sunday 13th May 2012 9:42 am
Echo (aka In response to the infamous You Tube performance)
Do you realise what will be will always be
And do you realise what will never be the same
And do you realise what we were put here for
For some to give the glory
And others give the pain
I once had a friend
But I wanted more than friendship
Wanted more than he could give
I once had a love
though I wanted more than loving
Wanted more than just to liv...
Monday 7th May 2012 8:10 pm
What is love?
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
Sunday 29th April 2012 2:30 pm
The Oak Tree
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...
Sunday 29th April 2012 2:27 pm
Secret
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
Sunday 29th April 2012 2:22 pm
Hatton Locks
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...
Sunday 29th April 2012 2:17 pm
The ending that started the beginning...
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...
Sunday 29th April 2012 2:12 pm
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