Andy Brookes Poems

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1.
Reflections

the years picture shadows play, hanging like baubles on the tree.
reflecting the time gone, time yet to be.

some radiant with treasures, string of lantern lights
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2.
Life's A Mess

I know I need to buy some socks
A mundane thing, oh and cut my locks.
I need to make the unmade bed,
Make a list, clear my head.
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3.
Rarely

4.
Deep Cuts

Again you perform open heart surgery
with the skill of many years, blade wielded precision,
a sharp serpents tooth venom filled,
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5.
Write One Day

just ignore me I am the invisible one, one who stands on the periphery
unnoticed at parties, chameleon taking on the wallpaper hue
one who watches and listens to the fights, divisions, with derision or....
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6.
Nit Picker

there is, she said, a typo in stanza three, no full stop in the fourth line and you have; here I can imagine her high dudgeon,
as she types, a spellingerror in the last line.
you have no sense of punctuation and your grammar though fair
is too obscure.
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7.
Catching

Stealthy it comes out the shadows,
a stab in the dark or a shaft of shifting shadow.
it comes lightening fast, azure and prickling
with passion red or in brooding silence.
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8.
Three Shorts

Flap

Our egos can make us fly
then reality sets in and we crash wings on fire.
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9.
Leaky Boat

Reading the sadness between the lines
that crack of darkness, demon eyed.
hidden there within but always ready to ignite
spontaneous and frightening.
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10.
Take Out Tonight

Cantonese embroidery
red Phoenix flies on silk
rises from the ashes blood red.
dead cocoons peeled
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