ache

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haiku, life, loss, people, poetry, relationships, sadness

On observing a sadness

With the ache of memory
she suffered his weight
the insufferable boredom
the physical presence
she had not carried it well
neither her heart
nor her back
remained unbowed

new love

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Australia, drinking, humour, poem, poetry, relationships, shiraz, tanka, wine

(tragic tanka)

I’m with my new love
an Australian shiraz
we get on so well
but it may not last for long
she has that empty feeling

‘O Romeo, Romeo’

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age, dotage, life, passion, poem, poetry, relationships, romance, Shakespear, youth

( an observation of my contemporaries, now I hate catching myself whistling)

Once the essence of romance,
now reduced to shadowing his wife
around charity shops and supermarkets,
his drawn cheeks constantly puckered with
that revolting suck, blow, tuneless
whistling that declares a man has entered his dotage,
devoid of the hope of passion
and surrendered to banality.
‘How does he love me?
With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love,
with sighs of fire.’
‘Yea.’

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Doing, matters

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doing, friends, haiku, love, relationships, verbs

You might remember

That love is a verb, my friend

And a two way thing