Seeking praise

Can I get a raise?

From you, so laissez

Faire, my malaise,

Awaiting praise,

The day's motion, delayed

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How quickly you returned to the fire

The blaze that burnt you,

severed your hope, ash scattered abounds your self-worth.

Empty of spirit you can’t supress the compulsion.

The simmering coals buried at the very heart of you

Promises, so much yet fulfilled

 from the one you held dear,

you have to be near, the lure of joy,

the bliss unfettered by sense,

despite the pa...

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When you want to help,

But it paints like rain.

You can’t stand by

Yet you create more pain.

Nothing ventured , they say is nothing gained

But this gesture of care maybe should refrain.

A balancing act of well intended intervention,

 or respect of independence.

The horizon welcomes a furthering away of remedy and deepening of uncertainty.

The relationship, the love,...

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The proton energy pills aren’t working today

Little less pep in my step

But knowing you are only the next corner away

I glide through my day, sliding with happiness

Feeling old and cold

Never gets a grip

When I feel you near

A soft embrace

A whisper in my ear

Soothing calm of you

overwhelms all anxiety

you bring me back in the sweetest way

Stay wi...

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Be the lonely light that shines amongst the darkness,

Be the one who holds the candle to light the way for others,

If you fall be the shooting star that outshines all else,

Be the falling star that all wish on to make a change,

Be the strength they cannot find within themselves.

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Chasing perfection is imperfect he thought

Pursuing perfection leads to unrealised idealism

He pondered as he watched the waterproof shoe just float below the waterline not making progress, an enigma, ironical, surreal, no just a misplaced destiny,

Like a fish out of water, like a shoe suspended with no motion,

His life was out of time and space, his thoughts of destiny out of synch wi...

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Im free to walk the beach

Im free to smell the forest mornings

Im free to listen to birdsong

Im free to wish you near

Your free to walk away

Im free to indulge

Im compelled to seek indulgence in you

Your free to seek comfort away from me

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I wont be satisfied till I have reached my dream that won’t quite coalesce

Not at ease till the unfathomable is reached.

You want a legacy,

I say you live a legacy, yet by your means it cant be defined.

Together our appetites are unquenchable indeterminate indistinguishables, our singular paths merging in our heart of dreams habituated.

We love our undefinables as try we do to catch...

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Some of us are players

Some of us are listeners

Some of us love the sounds and cannot do without

Some of us do not know yet what they like

Some of us are craftsmen

Some of us are more wordy than hands on

Some of us are artists

Some of us look on in wonder

Some of us will read no further

Some us may feel inclined

Some of us are growers

Some of us consume, some still...

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I think of friends near and far over distance and away in time.

What separates us is still permeable, our friendship not lost nor thrown away Whilst we remain yet apart, our daily thoughts and hopes remain vibrant of joyful times yet spent.

Maybe on hold, maybe grown cold, possibly on mute or pause, but whatever the status, in our hearts I am sure for those who once cupped our souls with war...

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Rays crackin’ jokes tonight,

Jill takes a while, the context

much more poignant than the punchline.

Humour seconded, yet still both soothe her soul.

“Pesto, the Italian Dennis the Menace”

Tastes so much better as

a simile, 

Than the so called toastie dressing

Jill has licked favourably from her lips.

Ray steals more time

I collect another quote,

For the l...

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Mummy remembered a love song,
Dad was cool and reposed

Mummy hummed the love song
Dad into reclined nirvana disposed

Mummy sings a love song
Happy on a wave of joyful reminisced days escaped
Daddy only hears her happiness, glad she can share with him the bliss

Mummy sings a love song
Frank and Elvis so embedded never missed
Daddy quietly enjoys her soliloquy
A tear moistens the wea...

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A song won’t save my daddy

yet I hold his hand and sing

A prayer isn’t saving my daddy

Though we pray endlessly in our hearts

My dad composed his life around us

A silent song of love

Dad conducted a sweet melody

For my mum my sisters and brother too

We danced merrily to his tune

Too happy to care that the bliss may end soon

Now we gather around dad like a vo...

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Putting it all together,

Vainly endeavouring for progress,

Watching it all fall apart.

Knowing each cycle, humbles us as children,

Giving us the unsolicited, not what we savoured.

Our hopes’ answers may appear mysterious,

Meandering, unquenched.

Only revealing the capacity within him to endure the affliction,

and bestow his lessons upon us,

his unfathomable patience to s...

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Shes my connection

To my joyous time

My happy predilection

With younger times

My free of pain times

My natural high, morphine assimilated time

My mind raced free

Our burdens were not heavy

Shes my connection

Every day with her

is a chance to remember

A dance in the embers

promenading within the dangers

gracefully bravely wholeheartedly

...

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Happy days and sunny rays

Of light

Saddle us to our giddy ride of lifes delight’

Promises made in whispers and out of sight

When conjugated give us the trust we prayed it might

Journeys shared hand in hand

Blissful joys etherally shone through us

Now together heart by heart

As one a life enjoyed

may leave you free to sing your song

With another a shared...

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As I leave I leave quickly

No light has been shed

 When I return

I step through slowly

Nothings slower than the dead

I ran from you like lightning,

Too fast for pain

To slow me down

 When I returned

I took my time

Nothing keeps time like the dead

I fled our love before you sent me

To join the lonely under tread

I flew so fast

Pain couldn’t catch ...

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Before the hold, before the relentless grey cold

Did you run wild against the wind,

Feel the warmth of open fires on your face?

Did you fearlessly let the waves crash all around you,

Breaking through as you willed to hold on strongly for release?

Did you love fearlessly like a fool,

No cares, no shame, no quarter, no pride?

Did you laugh, did you wear your humour as...

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Unrealised

I still yearn for you,

I have spurned others.

The pain I caused, is cast on me now,

I still burn for you

My heart belongs to no other.

Cold is the road I built for myself,

I bordered the edges not to stray.

You never appear on my journey,

And those that do I pass by.

I drive on in hope

My yearning will be answered.

The light I see I wis...

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