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Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 24 2023
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Coast
Soft morning ocean breeze sighs
Another summer's day,
Watching strepitous seagulls
Bicker across the bay.
The reggae soldier's boombox
Plays one more sunshine song,
Simple plans for this evening:
Alcoholic and long.
Stroking my sunburnt skin,
Sharing lingering kisses
As nightfall shimmers in.
I love the twilight coastline
But that's the conch I crave:
Your sweet smile pressed unto mine
In rhythm with the waves.
Time
Threadbare evenings passing
In Sussex sunset,
Devon beaches whispering
Never to be reread,
Just blank colourless pages Like the rest of the past:
Nothing in the end.
Only sleep, and a headstone, And a small patch of grass. Keep Going It's over now. You can not breathe.
Salty tears moisten your sleeve.
The inner burning makes you heave.
Keep going, keep going, keep going. Suffocated by hurt and heat.
Oceans of sweat, war gun heartbeat.
Limp shoulders pinned against the sheets.
Keep going, keep going, keep going. Lungs constricted by the dawn crush.
Mind of jelly, limbs turned to mush.
Brain detonating in the hush.
Keep going, keep going, keep going. It was not you. It is not you.
Stop turning red flags into blue.
Hijack the lies, embrace the true.
Keep going, keep going, keep going. And take my word, this is no end.
Please call your family. Text a friend.
I swear, I swear that you will mend.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
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