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Two Poems: Second

17/3/2018

 
I.

Return to the empty beach
Where the sea lost its breeze,
A lonely peculiar scene
Ravishing stones at my feet.


II.

The me inside me is not the me
        that I see
He is someone else smoking cigarettes
        by the tree,
A crooked elbow rests in
        alleyway cafés
Blowing smoke blooms into the summer
        drenched skyway.


  • 16/03/18, Motueka


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Collected in The Tasman Journey, ©2019 W.F Stubbs

Two Poems

23/2/2018

 
I.

The great and empty beach
Where stones lay unwashed;
Sun burn scolds pitted face
Logs leave off what is lost.


II.

If I had stayed,
I would surely have committed suicide,
It
was in my mind,
Like the absence of a lifeline
Keeping me safe as it pulls me in.

I had nobody,
And nobody had me.

Even now
That seems not so far away,
A guessing game:
  - How do you unwind loneliness,
  - Reverse the trend of solitude?

“You pushed everyone away”
Voices echo from the cave,

You all pushed me away,
A life I had to save.

I did not know how to live,
Their lives were theirs,
Mine was mine;
I was not one of them,
Just one of me,
All the time,
All the time.


  • 23/02/18, Motueka/Ngatimoti



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