Frances Macaulay Forde

I have
taken your words
folded both hands over
then held them tightly to my heart.
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Fossil:Dry.Smooth?Not smooth - rough.
Light!Weighs nothing.I move my finger
to slip over the top end and find smooth.
A clean cut.A harsh chopping off.
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Rippled by rolling heart-waves,
inexorably advancing -
constantly,
consistently -
...

before cultivation the water flowed
bouncing on leaves falling falling
to pool on fertile forest floor below
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Remembrance Day, London,1973

How many thousands watched her lay
the wreath of poppies while they prayed…
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Upturned bottles once lined with military order
on dusty, termite-rotten shelves. Fingerprints,
clear spaces of use, caught by the shafts of daylight
through pin-holes where nails have been.
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Don't
let me drown
in a cruel sea without
that life raft of honesty.
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Upturned bottles once lined with military order
on dusty, termite-rotten shelves.Fingerprints,
clear spaces of use, caught by the shafts of daylight
through pin-holes where nails have been.
...

'Sunshine Policy".
The flower has finally
blossomed in peace.
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She lay
prostrate. Waiting.
Will he stay a while when
their beating hearts have calmed down?
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It glows.
The safe ribbon
of light, meandering
on toward home.But my path was
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How can money recompense

all those stolen years?
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An irresistible,
delicious, gluttony -
consuming
act of lust.
...

I'm tired.
Two hours last night.
Three, the night before.
I want to
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Make your bed.
Pick up your clothes.
Straight to school.
Don't pick your nose.
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How often has the door closed
on opportunity for me?
How many times have I shut it?
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And we will remember them,
brave soliders all
who raised the trumpet
and answered the call,
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Like the dust, I promise to be all around you.
In the brightest moments of your life you will see me,
know I am here, but most of the time forget
that you are surrounded by this great love
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butterfly jumper
thai yellow shoes

rhythm and rhyme
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Tears fall
like rivers of
pain.Rejection will hurt.
Just touch him and say goodbye to
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