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I thought, Love was a music box A perfect gift That played a perfect tune No doubting or questions or caution So I waited For my music box But the boxes That brushed against my eager heart Just screeched and bit my fingers There was One  That played a  Merry tune and it almost made… Continue reading Illusions of Youth

The night sings to me as I paint It swirls around my colours and around the village I remember When I was there my world was dark All except the night sky that twinkled to my loneliness Stone walls surround me People are coming I must hide this picture in my head until I am… Continue reading Starry Night

What makes people what they are? Their looks? Their house? Their fancy car? Or is it the way they hold themselves? Or what books are on their shelves? Science says its chemicals In the brain or pheromones That’s smell to you & me & him That fills our senses to the brim They tell us… Continue reading People

I don’t have to slave for a man or a merchant As I work in my chosen profession I don’t have to marry a man by arrangement  As I cavort with my latest obsession I get paid the same as the unfairer sex And I don’t have to sleep with my boss! I can vote… Continue reading My Female Generation

He rode over to remind me of roses He swam across to serenade me with songs He carefully cut my confession Then ran out to right all my wrongs He gave me the greatest of gifts He fought to free my soul – so forlorn He handled my heart lovingly with his Then softly subdued… Continue reading Shining Armour

I’m in love with a heart that’s cheap Its love is free to use And I must be realistic I’ll never be his muse I’m in love with hands that roam They touch skin that’s not mine And I must be realistic I’m not his Valentine I’m in love with eyes that drift To any… Continue reading Wrong

Five winters passed in loving haste Five Januarys seem to fly Past all life events Steady as a shining train Your commitment bound not as shackles,  But as firm lovers’ hands The hand still grips  The eye still yearns  The path is neither smooth nor rocky Undulating forever in varying roads and highways But the… Continue reading The Fifth

Flicking through my feed Looking at some pictures I knew that you and she were friends But when the picture scrolled past my screen my heart stopped cold Anytime I see you it’s enough for time to stop  While every chemical and hormone, which you cause to be released, rushes through me I become a… Continue reading The Picture

It’s scary  Feeling this much for one person Putting their happiness before your own Delighting in every smile and tinkle of laughter You frighten me That you are the one – forever and ever What if you don’t love me back? Or don’t treat me right? You comfort me Hearing your soothing voice in my… Continue reading You

She lurks behind the mirrorWhispering the truthsMy face a poor defenceFor actions that she moves Forever patient, there she waitsMy true self – mask removedMy face a poor escapeSo she wallows in her tombAs I grow, does sheRipening fierce desiresMy face a poor disguiseFor undiscovered fires I fear her, loathe her, love her Pushing her… Continue reading Behind the Mirror