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- Quiet beings at allpoetry
16 is a horrid number,
And I’m afraid of the void inside your smile. - Ineffable Affections at allpoetry
'' - Ineffable affections at allpoetry
Our affection was as real
As the snowdrops in May - Wasted at allpoetry
There are more homes than people here - The art of being lifeless at allpoetry
I do not yearn for material things,
For I learnt years ago how to beg, borrow and steal - The un-sonnet at allpoetry
8 lines. - Re-run at allpoetry
We're just hopeless re-runs - Silver candles at allpoetry
When the candle wax drips onto the icing,
Fill your lungs and make a wish - flawless vocab at allpoetry
An ode to the silent force of words. - mouths of babes at allpoetry
Wires below soil, below ghastly shadows
Of bodies of youths. - postcards at allpoetry
I’ll send you postcards from foreign islands
Which I’ll refer to as home for little while - Cold metal at allpoetry
The imprints of your fingers
Like lead cases falling about my feet - The dialogue of drugs. at allpoetry
The fourth bar, the fifth bar, she sighs along,
It’s about believing, she says to no one. - Plasticine at allpoetry
I am an infant beneath this skin,
Undeterred by time, undamaged by remorse, - Plaster cast at allpoetry
You were always 100 miles away,
Too far too touch, too absent, too faded, - Paychecks at allpoetry
I’m getting used / To smiling at strangers / Cos they’re paying my wages / And signing my slips / I’m getting better / At gazing eyes open / Towards sordid commotion / In this city’s streets / I find - Happy 20th March at allpoetry
Welcome to daybreak, I say
Happy 20th March - Watchtower at allpoetry
The world feel dark tonight,
As the beams catch the water so far beneath me, - the season's reversal at allpoetry
Acres of human air gave way to a brief moment of passion
In which past love did not conquer our hearts, - [ The truth in all these fairytales, ] at allpoetry
The truth in all these fairytales,
Is simple as can be, - In valleys, she sleeps at allpoetry
You find yourself in valleys,
Eyes closed to the sun above - Prayers and Pleas at allpoetry
Full stops end sentences,
Your words are a little jumbled but the message is clear. - A song for a traveller at allpoetry
a traveller's tale - Just listen at allpoetry
I need you to listen when I speak,
And talk when I am in need of comfort, - Myspace is a disease at allpoetry
Oh how wonderful it is to be
As big a myspace whore as thee! - Guidance at allpoetry
Flutter beside me; speak to me in hushed tones,
I do not know you, yet I understand you entirely, - The view from the top at allpoetry
The view from the top
Is like watching angels unfold their wings, - A/S/L Part 2 at allpoetry
I come with roses; with bandanas and brooches
My mother wore when courting daddy. - a/S/L at allpoetry
I place the ‘For Sale’ sign on my chest
A symbol to those who pass me by, - 26 at allpoetry
Acid tongues speak lies,
Born from a hate all my own. - Breathe No More at allpoetry
You are the blank page,
The unread journal - Beneath the veil at allpoetry
On her wedding day she smiled a smile of submission
A gown fit for a princess, not her empty frame - The peace unspoken at allpoetry
There’s a Polaroid lying before me
Like a photographic memory of love - Descent of dreams at allpoetry
I saw, I thought I saw
The shadow of a boy under your bed - This benevolent host at allpoetry
You tell me my eyes look like sapphires today
They’re as translucent and as open as the door was
