Posters – depicting your attraction
were long ago hollered and rolled up
into human curiosity of loquacity.
Sights and signs remain crystal bright.
The fortune teller sees to that.

How I strip teased round ribboned pole
winding that prize in disguise was the yow
I knew. Then not chosen to be May queen,
I helter skeltered to hate, heal, redeem
tortured by silence amongst the crowd.

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Deep.  Deep in thelemic thought, her

words spill sour, salted by a power

that cowers and spits, shoaling rocks

into desolate fetch, coveting a polyandry.

Exiled.  Exiled she lies, and lies. Coursed

and cobbled. Smooth blissful pebbles

that awake wrecked memories, and hopes

of calm oceans being neither here or there.   

Caught. Caught in a squall ‘twix...

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Unsure, Unopposed

lying in my arms

fleeting captivity

of bittersweet blossom

transient beauty as it falls

melting into the ground

and you’re gone

© Katypoetess 2013

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I

Maybe - it was just sex and poetry passing through your modus operandi.

I am no Rossetti, Dickenson or Plath. My heart hung in front of my heroines.

Emotions could rival, but words brew clumsy and fall cumbersome at their feet.

Ink spurts and spills from between my legs, puddling and muddying an

indiscression from the master’s muse. Brooding time in surburban solicit...

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If I had that chance, I would keep giving you The best. 

Love making - hot tea served so dutifully, as I gently

steam each dream to wake you. Morning Molton Brown bath

with warm Christy towel to wrap around fervid hips after

I wash and caress every complex that doesn’t need cleansing.

When meeting your neuroses, I would heed the grumbles

chuntering a nonsense, that...

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Moon beckons a beacon for the night demon’s path. Comfort strewn by creaks
of cooling corners in the bedroom.  Dutiful goodnight kisses obligate a renewed
commitment to freshly etched, stone set commandments of the marriage rite.

Left alone, he clicks familiar websites, browsing history carefully kept out of sight.
Easing tension transiently until eyes hit on a caress of a photo...

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The boy’s blue eyes shone

Tried so hard to be good

Tall frame was troubled

So easily misunderstood

But something happened

A long time ago

That split his heart

And darkened his soul

He had to feel needed

Wanted and secure

To cover the emptiness

And risk of wanting more

He worked and toiled

To fill the vacuum inside

He crea...

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Curtains drawn
One sunny morn
A white shadow
On patio door

Since that night
No cry heard
Death knoll subdued
Prey is disturbed

Prophecy or protection
Wisdom or inflection
Your powder down
I cannot clean

A haunting call through the valleys of resentment

Forgive – forgive - forgive

© Katypoetess 2013

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Flatlined. Red admiral turned cabbage white.

Our bed, once pale open casket creaks a chrysalis,

a steadfast metamorphosis of our gothic love story.

Set apart by vengeful spouses, hindwings skinned.

Living in separate houses, just over ten miles apart.

Beyond the ending in damask suburban banality

the vampire’s parable of a lover’s return fleets transient

scorni...

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I sweat, I shriek, I write

Worried faces can only wait

I tear, I bleed severely

begging for epidural of hate

I can’t get you out of me

But I must or I will die

My back arches upwards

My legs spread open wide

Final push, truth and lies collide

I exorcise what you decimate

Sodden, panting, I look down

to see what you did create

I g...

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Dreaming

Waiting

Hesitating

Taking

Denying

Confessing

Taking

Hesitating                                                                         

Waiting                                                                                                                                                         

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Sanctuary turned cemetery

On late November afternoon

Your kindred spirit rises as I pace forwards

I giggle as you grumble

About mud on your boots

No tea to takeaway from the café today

I avert all others eyes

Was it through here,

Or a little further perhaps?

The birds scatter in welcome as I arrive

Without our blanket to break my fall

...

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He’s crazy

She’s crazy

It would never have worked

How could you?

He’s possessive

She’s obsessive

You would never have been happy

How could you?

Look how he treated you

Look how she behaved

You were never right for each other

How could you?

              Tighter, tie me tighter and take me
              you naughty girl, cum on me - now

...

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Tugging the stockings out the drawer

Clasp up clips, leave suit on the floor

Zip up my boots, apply more mascara

Anticipate nervously the oncoming drama

Start the engine on cold autumn night

You wanted me there, and I cannot fight

Tired, unsure, aware of the time

Knowing your impatience, I blur the white line

Bright lights feed confidence, feeling unf...

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The torch has turned, flame extinguished.

Roses and lilies, once love’s bouquet,

now wilted wreath. I wear the silver locket

tarnished to jet in anger. I rage, snip and shave

the hair you nestled in, that you forbade me to trim

Against all fashionable whim.  I relish the pain

knowing fresh ink on skin will repel you.

Cuckolded by your wife, I curl c...

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Clearing drawers

On that side of the bed

And putting things back again

The bathroom isn’t done

Fuck.

The garage isn’t cleared

I hope his car fits in

Big lack of wardrobe space

Fuck.

He has got so many clothes

Where would they go?

It’s his wedding anniversary next month

So what kind of new madness is this?

Ho...

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“I love this bed” you sigh. Half clambering, half enticing.

Socks fly chaotically towards carefully folded suit trousers

on the stair banister outside our door. Seductively deluded

domestic comfort. We mock the coupling joggers sweating and panting.

Beating the towpath in desperate lust for a BMI of whatever. We know

a much better way to keep the pounds off by keeping poundi...

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Where are we now

Back to square one

Thrown to the beginning

Or have we moved on?

As the season changes

The cycle does reap

An autumnal harvest

That tastes just as sweet

There’s no place like home

Unearthed and unearthly

insecurity and fear still roam

Driven, dark and dirty

Trying to live the dream

Fucking, fighting and broken

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“Remember these times.” Urging me earnestly

whilst you nuzzle my hair down there.  I dizzy and delight

at your glasses still on. A wicked glint behind

magnified - tantalizes. I draw breathe, thighs tense.

I protest “No, no, you can’t do that it’s the wrong time of….”

You can. You will. You do. Body squirming, eyes wide,

I clutch the duvet, horrified. Yo...

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Looking up while you were fucking me, I tried to grab a falling leaf.

But I missed; I couldn’t quite reach the wish that fluttered in the breeze.

Branches gather, cross and weave our worn anxious self-discoveries

swaying unable to still uncertainty. We circumscribe this Eden as reality.

When I promised forever did you feel time stop?

A treetop to trick and ...

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Early impatience to your inevitable lateness

Love's fresh aroma makes my heart beat

Awaiting half Irish steampunk entrance

Mixed black and bitter - dusted vanilla sweet

Crowd well scanned for anyone we know

Cappuccino obediently essenced to your liking

Before sitting with me in comfort, and on show

We box witty as hares – tease, half chastising

...

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I arrive. Quickly turning bedroom from Rome into Alexandria.

Skin up, pop a cork to dilute our blood with Bollinger.

Determined to mix up a confidence to conquer,

goddess summoning up a strip tease of your morality.

“The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool.”*

Coiling concubine - arabesque around your thighs to

nourish exo...

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For two days and two nights we architect a megalomania

in defiance.  Disguised in stray abandon amongst oblivious streets.

Scavenging on Oxford Street you buy skinny black jeans and converse.

Just like mine. We shamelessly crawl sex shops for new toys

and sully Soho square’s benches with marijuana smoke. 

You recite poetry loudly, off the cuff of your duffle coat,

none o...

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She has no beauty in face or form

Weighting the lightest heart

She deafens our spirits with silence

Filling the emptiness when we’re apart

She breaks the distant grey waves

Swelling pregnant with our loss

She destroys well intended footsteps

Muddying our paths that cross

She banishes happiness out of sight

Turning the natural to feel so wrong

...

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No regrets

I swear to you

not one.

Except

a question in a text

a reply that fired a gun

fate’s bullet aimed straight

shattered my heart

another’s life saved.

If I had said yes

instead of no

would I still be alone now -

who knows?

Martyrdom – with a reward to come?

Or stupidity – my life coming undone?

...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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

...

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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...

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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

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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 ...

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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...

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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

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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

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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
 
...

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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...

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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...

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