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Parting Sorrows

12 Friday Oct 2012

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English: Train station in Łeba.

 

 

 

 

 

The heartbreak of each new parting,

makes me wonder why we say hello.

It leaves me unsettled and wanting,

though I try so hard not to show,

the pain in my heart of the parting,

each bittersweet delaying farewell,

leaving me reeling and hurting,

cast back to my solitary hell.

 

© Parting Sorrows 12.10.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: Train station in Łeba. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Razor’s Edge

29 Saturday Sep 2012

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Sitting on a razors edge,

cheese wire nerves,

cut through my head,

nails down blackboard,

sing the blues,

grated knuckles,

grief ensues,

nails to quick,

knots pulled tight,

butterflies,

and sleepless nights,

steeped in fear,

low self-esteem;

wake me now,

from this bad dream.

 

© Razor’s Edge 29.09.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

Bad Habits

20 Thursday Sep 2012

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English: "The removal of the cracked melt...

 

 

 

 

I fear I have broken me,

there is no going back;

I’ve wandered too far,

down this treacherous track.

I strayed here, eyes open,

and couldn’t return,

conditions remaining,

the habit is firm.

I dream of a future,

where I am alone,

asleep with eyes open,

conditioning gone.

 

© Bad Habits 20.09.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: “The removal of the cracked melting pot” (1884), painting by Constantin Meunier (1831-1905) Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

Exotic Erotic

09 Sunday Sep 2012

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Camargue horse

 

 

 

 

 

Flaming flamingos,

cantering Camargues,

exotic, erotic,

the passions are ours.

 

Gossamer lace wings,

and butterflies hearts,

so fragile, so delicate,

can tear us apart.

 

Humming bird’s tears,

and bumble bee breath,

a delicate balance,

of grief brought by death.

 

© Exotic Erotic 09.09.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Camargue horse (Photo credit: Wolfgang Staudt)

Blue Moon

08 Saturday Sep 2012

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Blue Moon Blue

 

 

 

 

Giving up and,

giving in…

a writers’ pain,

a lovers’ dream.

 

Blue moons come,

and blue moons go,

the pain remains,

of losing you.

 

The thought of,

having you no more,

is like the song,

without the score.

 

To give you up,

without a doubt?

but only when,

the blue moon’s out.

 

© Blue Moon  08.09.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Blue Moon Blue (Photo credit: Hialean)

Empty Nest

04 Tuesday Sep 2012

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English: Female robin cleaning the nest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How can the sea,

leave the shore?

How can the moon,

the stars ignore?

 

How can I live,

without my heart,

and grieve for you,

whilst we’re apart?

 

How can my sun,

no longer shine?

I will not see,

sunrise sublime.

 

How can the word,

without the book,

the empty nest,

without the rook.

 

How can the empty

space be filled?

By graduations,

new lives rebuild.

 

© Empty Nest 04.09.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: Female robin cleaning the nest (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cherishing

02 Sunday Sep 2012

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Books

 

 

 

 

I cherish your words

like children,

I watch them grow

within my heart;

some may heal,

and some bring joy,

whilst others may,

tear us apart.

Each one of them,

brings joy and pain,

with each a gift,

in equal measure.

I hold your words,

the nettle grasped,

may sting my soul,

but each I treasure.

 

© Cherishing 02.09.12

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Books (Photo credit: henry…)

Becoming (her)

01 Saturday Sep 2012

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Looking Glass

 

 

 

 

 

 

She looks in the mirror,

and stares in the glass.

Memories visual,

the haunting has passed.

Recalling events,

reflected in front,

and wonders quite simply,

when did I become?

 

© Becoming (her) 01.09.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Looking Glass (Photo credit: Elena Kalis)

Writing the Blues

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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[Blue grotto, Capri Island, Italy] (LOC)

 

 

 

 

 

These walls imbued,

with poet’s mood,

whilst words refrain,

deflecting pain;

the primal scream,

relives the dream,

of love once scorned,

this life sojourned.

 

© Writing the Blues 30.08.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

[Blue grotto, Capri Island, Italy] (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)

Hidden Depths

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Pens on Parade

 

 

 

 

 

Words to connect,

inspire, and inflame

passions, and poets

within, our hearts

desire, to reflect.

So pick up, a pen

writing, words

now, and then,

that mirror,

the depths

of despair.

 

© Hidden Depths 29.08.2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Pens on Parade (Photo credit: Abizern)