Click here to hear the poet read his words:
boats in pyjamas
boats in pyjamas
prepared for winter sleep
useless as promises
we knew we couldn’t keep
masts in pink petals
dancing in twilit sky
natural and lovely
to my unconsoled eye
trees now undressed
shorn naked unleaved
exposed as the summer lies
we never quite believed
sky in perfection
singular in its blue
stripped of its cloud love
as I’m denuded of you
shadows invisible
in darkness in fear
terrified abandoned
since you disappeared
heart on a jetty
wind-swept angry sea
salt water and salt tears
loneliness only me
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Beautiful. Wonderful expression of dep emotion. One of my favourites.
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You are as kind as always, Lindsey
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So desolate, both the words and the reading.
Such images, such emotion – heart on a jetty wave swept angry sea … loneliness only me.
Beautiful and exquisitely sore expression of a part of life.
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Thanks, Jenne.
You’re right, not many laughs in there!
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