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@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#ItWillDo
#Spent
They watch the match burn down
pegged to separate seasons,
The one burgeoning, nest building, bright bud of a primrose.
The other, still shackled to winter,
Exhausted.
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#PoemdAbout
#BlackVeils
#ItWillDo
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Hiding in the corners
Hiding in the walls
Hiding in the ivies
As the barn owl calls
Hiding behind broken breath
A gasp, a scream, a sigh
Behind her veil she asks her riddle
Who am I ?
@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Static #ItWillDo
My dear oak tree
Asked of me
Why she
- Alone - stood still
Until
She saw
- One foot on the floor -
A woman at prayer for a stillness To share.
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
#PoemsAbout
#YouShouldntHave
#itWillDo
You shouldn't have
Remembered
That today was a day
You were supposed to forget.
@rfsmith.bsky.social #PromptCombo
#memorial
#ItWillDo
It was a lovely sending off
they said
last week
after the funeral.
Sadly
the mourner who passed on
a virus
owes me two concerts' worth
of beautifully unsung music.
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Old Man
Old Woman
Holding hearts tight in the face of a final forever
They won't last 'till Christmas
Said their parents, sixty years ago.
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #PromptCombo #OnRoofs #ItWillDo
We
danced on the apex;
Did not fall.
We
leaped from rooftop to
rooftop to rooftop -
our wings reflecting
both sun
and
Moon.
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout
#DogTags
#ItWillDo
Metal mirrors in minuscule
Tell me who I am
And, now, who I was.
I was not a soldier.
#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#ItWillDo
That perfect afternoon
when they traded scar for
scar - blood-twins -
over and over and over and over
And now, at night, all she can hear
is the cry of the owl, of the
fox
and the long thin wail of the last train home.
