she'd faded to a cipher

a silhouette on the wall,

I took shelter in dreams

in my sleep I can recall

the girl she used to be

afore time did us part,

the question I pose is;

oh where is her heart?

no love fills her veins

smile a vague smear

harder than me, she

exploits the old fear

that she will leave me

like a thief in the night

my poor spiri...

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sensitive about her body

gym doing physical jerks

I praised her endeavours

my flattery usually works

then came a stupid row

for jealousy of her friends

that fresh independence

envy ease of mind rends

my criticisms undermine

confidence to be curbed

barbed comments, digs

her self-worth disturbed

warned her shape awry

put her mind on the rack

g...

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amid starlight she reposes

my life's in her lizard face

that library of dusty looks

records my fall from grace

she took the best from me

sucking me dry every day

each wrinkle taunting me

dry pointers to my decay

I pray she does not wake

no pity runs in my veins

but violation at the sight

of what sleep she feigns

she's a monument to loss

contami...

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sun shines down on love

rain spatters lonely grief

only my blue umbrella's

a consolation and relief

she's left me for another

I'm stuck in a Scotch mist

imagining her in his arms

the passion of their tryst

but for my blue umbrella

I'd sink down and drown

or reach for my hat and

decamp to another town

the storm rages overhead

my umbrella keeps m...

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I remember beds with springs,

women ever soft, even petite,

love-making was a noisy affair

neighbours would have a treat

svelte then women did seem

slender was the salient word

they slipped out of their shifts

took time to get them stirred

first you snuggled to get warm

well before gas central heating

when you got into your rhythm

a thin mattress took a b...

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she seemed like the genuine article

the woman I could love and respect

far from my previous experiences

which were what you might expect

I was a roamer and a schemer

bouncing off women like a ball

on a speedway of hit and miss

love was not on the radar at all

at first glance she was different

quality in the areas that matter

but with a je ne sais quois that

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she used to set me on fire

her eyes lit my every day

that touch a breath of silk

voice so alluring and fey

magic slipped into reverse

our love shrinks unspoken

chemistry fell out of kilter

her fairy wand has broken

careless now, her moods

weaving so casual gashes,

disdain on that elfin face,

a tongue with fifty lashes

bored and up to mischief

n...

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there's a point on the map when

doubts and desapir veer to meet

and idly parade nowhere down a

lonely slum of a one-way street

no compass charts this latitude

where time gross reality bends

for its a quarter of lifeless loss

the geography where love ends

I've drifted here so many times

its memories my endless bane

before me for I sense a reprise

I am sure...

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it is rare that women let me down

I have mastered the art of romance

the secret is to abandon them first

that way they don't get the chance

there were exceptions to this rule

Julie left me for a curious old fart

but she demanded a father-figure

she was immature from the start

Ann ran off with my hand- warmer

she'd always been cold in the sack

she's shacked u...

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looming at me she's smiling

swerving to keep her at bay

I crossed double white lines

after that things went grey

waking in her brawny arms

she whispers words of love

how we were fated to meet

the way we fit hand in glove

concussion raddling my mind

my brain limps in reverse gear

random thoughts flit like fleas

one above all else, naken fear

valeti...

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pulled the rug from under me

left me sprawling on the floor

dispensed with the courtesies

heading straight for the door

he's gone now I'm over him

he'll do the same to another

its my fault, I ought to have

listened to my poor mother

that touch yet wands my face

his hands so large and strong

my future is unknown, I'll be

left without him for so long

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we've reached that painful stage

where she can't do nothing right

life's all shouting glare and fume

but for me its an unequal fight

sorry, but I can't take it anymore

she's wearing me out to a thread

the urge to kill her daily corrosive

wish to God she'd just drop dead

something occurred in her mind

hormonal changes kill older cells

where age-related issues...

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once shoes went to cobblers

new valves a radio renewed

cut-throat razors stropping

nappies boiled then brewed

now artefacts come and go

we exploit them every day

serve a purpose then gone

discards, just thrown away

are us people any different?

used and then tossed aside

minds or bodies plundered

left weeping, hollow, dried

poets call it romantic l...

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