In The Shelter Of My Dreams
In The Shelter Of My Dreams Across the velvet nape Of my naked, trembling neck Around the bare expanse Of my silken, silent throat Within my pounding heart Upon my very soul I feel a softness A growing...
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Lost Souls When leaves Fall soundless, to the earth And lie touched, by early frost Reflecting both the light And the endless darkness too Where colours swim Until the daylight Wanes into twilight And...
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A Secret Meeting A place between asleep and awake A secret meeting between midnight and dawn Beneath a moonless sky of shadow velvet The wheeling shadows slowly mark the hours And the earth turns...
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Visions Of You Awaking from an unremembered dream That returns you to me As the dawn creeps in I hear the voice of your heart I see the rush of things that call you That bring you to my side The...
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Lilies Oh bring me not the sighing lilies Their sweet, cloying Perfume of death Their pale, quiet faces Open mouthed in grief Give them not to me for company Their cold, alabaster touch Their waxy...
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Melting Away Whispered sighs on gentle breezes A soft brush across your cheek Slipping away in the darkness A quiet, yearning echo Across the velvet night Slow-burning, it dies like a flame Too late,...
View ArticleAll The Colours I Have Known
All The Colours I Have Known Beginnings must be wrought From the shades of endings As in some ancient harmony The dying of the day Like a red rose That falls upon on its own reflection Between...
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Orchid dreams The rising day stirs up the fires Meandering illusions Roaming free in the imagination Poetry of passion and desire Stars melting away into rose petal seas Orchid dreams run garnet amid...
View ArticleShades Of Blue
Shades Of Blue It is so simple my life Since I turned my eyes towards the view Towards the picture, of you Everywhere I look, shades of blue Simple hues, cool tones, the colour of my hours Indigo skies...
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Visions Of You Awaking from an unremembered dream That returns you to me As the dawn creeps in I hear the voice of your heart I see the rush of things that call you That bring you to my side The...
View ArticleTanka – Loss (XII)
Tanka – Loss (XII) In my secret heart One solitary leaf falls Fluttering like fear Loneliness personified Velvet and dying like dreams © Ann Bagnall and AnnieB222.com, 2015 Filed under: Poetry
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Sedoka – Loss Velvet petals play Tossed in whisper soft breezes Beneath the arching cherry tree Falling like my tears Like kisses lost too early In the shadows of the day © Ann Bagnall and...
View ArticleMelting Away
Melting Away Whispered sighs on gentle breezes A soft brush across your cheek Slipping away in the darkness A quiet, yearning echo Across the velvet night Slow-burning, it dies like a flame Too late,...
View ArticleIn the Shelter of My Dreams
In the Shelter of My Dreams Across the velvet nape Of my naked, trembling neck Around the bare expanse Of my silken, silent throat Within my pounding heart Upon my very soul I feel a softness A growing...
View ArticleAching to Unravel
Aching to Unravel My love we are as rosebuds Velvet layers Folded petal upon petal In the darkness Aching to unravel Softly creased And blushing Together Into the warm Spring air Stretching languorous...
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Lilies Oh bring me not the sighing lilies Their sweet, cloying Perfume of death Their pale, quiet faces Open mouthed in grief Give them not to me for company Their cold, alabaster touch Their waxy...
View ArticleSweet Magnolias
Sweet Magnolias Sweet magnolias Pink and white Glorious velvet Glowing In the soft dawn light Hanging heavy with dew Dripping tears One after the other Fragrant blossoms Strewn across the dirt A...
View ArticleAll The Colours I Have Known
All The Colours I Have Known Beginnings must be wrought From the shades of endings As in some ancient harmony The dying of the day Like a red rose That falls upon on its own reflection Between...
View ArticleShades Of Blue
Shades Of Blue It is so simple my life Since I turned my eyes towards the view Towards the picture, of you Everywhere I look, shades of blue Simple hues, cool tones, the colour of my hours Indigo skies...
View ArticleTanka – Loss (13)
Tanka – Loss (13) In my secret heart One solitary leaf falls Fluttering like fear Loneliness personified Velvet and dying like dreams © Ann Bagnall 2015 Filed under: Loss, Poetry, Tanka
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