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Popping the loveberry
Popping the loveberry
Amongst nettles and brambles
I’m a jittery shambles
As you shepherd me through
A dusty picnic blanket
Nothing else to eat
Suppose I’d better start on you
Emotional lightening struck
And I just couldn’t fuck
Not like what I’ve been used too
All experience then must
have duly been flushed
down Hatton café’s only l...
Sunday 6th May 2012 8:17 am
The Oak Tree
The Oak Tree
Looking up
while you lay on me
I tried to grab
a falling leaf
but I missed
I couldn’t quite reach
the wish that fluttered past
in the breeze
When I promised forever did you feel time stop?
weaving and crossing
memories gently sway
between the branches
until you spoke
we will make it ours
this...
Sunday 29th April 2012 2:27 pm
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