YOU WEAR MY KISSES IN YOUR HAIR(for Jan)
You wear
my kisses
in your hair
invisible
to everyone
but us
they glisten
like emotional jewelry
bloom like flowers
of desire
you wear
my kisses
in your hair
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Come Day Go Day
Another birthday comes
& pushes me even further
over the hill
iil
unwell
(sick of being sick)
pushing this bloody boulder
like Sysiphus up the bloody hill
yet the touch
of your hand
makes me young
& willing
make me so glad
to be
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Snow In NYC
Snow in NYC
falls upon my upturned eyes
as I gaze into its skies
still... silentey crying
to Heaven
hear your voice
taste your kiss
(a world that no longer exists)
only memory now
falling like snow
covering it all
(all so long ago)
now
only
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And Cry When Morning
I want to
sleep with you
I want to
sleep in you
& cry
when morning
separates us
into separate
entities
that it casts forth
moving about a city
longing
until night
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History Lesson For A Schoolteacher
'Henry the Eight had five wifes and a headmistress! '
'Churchill is that dog that can't sing and sells insurance on the telly! '
To children growing up into this Brave New World
...even recent history is ancient history
and is already begining to sound mythlogical!
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If Ever You Want Me
If ever you
want me
...to go
only tell me so
& I'll go
quietly as the melting snow.
If ever you
don't love me
...anymore
only tell me so
& I'll go
quietly as a fading rainbow
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Moonlight & Frost
I breathe upon
the window pane
leaving a kiss
that frosts
over.
You do the same.
I kiss your kiss
of frost.
You kiss
mine.
We leave
kisses all over the window
The frost now
reclaiming them
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An Ocean Beyond The Ocean
Her right hand
lingers among my poems
collecting words
as a child would
picking up pebbles
her mind
(all seashell & driftwood)
her other hand
hidden behind
the falling waterfall
of her hair
cupped to her
ear
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A Woman Is Crying
A WOMAN IS CRYING
In the next room
a woman is crying
a moon
perches upon an hotel sign
unmoved
as a new millennium
dawns
as bright as neon
the woman
still crying
her unknown
despair
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Let Me Tell You 'bout The Birds & Bees!
Your bum
stuck up in the air
beautiful
as any flower
me, a bee
eager to make honey
polinating our desire.
Outside the window
a bird sings
with such
...passion.
We shattered
in our ecstasy
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