BBB Poem 88

Did we desert each other
Without support structures in place
Did we carry away the voice
Which only knew obstruction, and angst

Did we flunk it as passionately
As first we had made it
Did we put distance, yet more distance
Between us, also behind us

How surly, and insensitive was I
How rigidly representative were you
With love unknown to the logic
Was our rationale simply too too true

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BBB Poem 87

Words which enter of their own volition
They are the best words
Just as the glimpse
From the corner of one's eye
Says all that needs to be said about her beauty
Just as the gathering in
Of the one unique scent note
Says all that you need to know about her style

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BBB Poem 86

I have been unable
To cure myself
Of this long held obsession

I have tried, believe me
Yet every time I throw
Another stone into the water

I smile to myself, politely
I watch the ripples
Dappled and stippled with light

In the deep of night
Her memory is falling
From the moon and stars

As I lay in my bed
I spin the words to thread
The lost love which is calling

Without pad or pen or pencil
I repeat the words
Hoping that my sleep

Will not take them away
But of course it does
So frail is my obsessed mind

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BBB Poem 85

I reach out to nowhere
Not knowing what to touch
I collect scraps and tit-bits
Yet squander so much

I wave a hand at the dark
Not knowing the friend
I undo words, letters also
I undo, to hold back at the end

I am no different
To millions, zillions of men
All who suffered heartbreak
And now gravitate to zen

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BBB Poem 84

I take myself off
To places I’ve never been
I read of our song
So what does it mean

At six in the morning
Already three times awake
Pretty pictures rolling
I think of River Erme intake

From where water was drawn
But at what cost
Where the puppet was played
While the true love was lost

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