Robin Bennett Poems

I often wonder how many days-
must I endure before eternity
decides to erase me?
Not one to lie, I have tried to
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It just sounds better when I call the night a
a sexy mistake. I'm hardly a fixture
in the bar scene these days, so I acted
the part. Looking well heeled and oozing
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Momma says I was born misunderstood-
a complicated classic English novel.
All full of thee, thy, and lots of giveth,
A prickly little star constantly searching
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As my lips carry the mask of sin-
Ink stained, locked within a lying grin;
Cloudy eyes stumbling in a grey haze,
Naming you, my forgotten Hendrix days.
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Sitting in the naughty corner,
using up all of my
dismal present, talking of
our ancient
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Daddy, Daddy, you always said I
was the one most like you. Bold
and brazen. Extremely so, many
people would say. Like you a
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Your heart is a lemon-
bitter
I've lived and died
there a thousand times
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Today I took a trip back-
in time
Standing in a puddle of
deja vu, smack dab
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Meet my in my dreams, where sultriness lives-
Sun beats warmth, as do your lips on mine;
Is the blazing heat, from the sun or radiating from us?
Knee deep in the arid desert sand, wild animals prowl,
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Scissors cuts paper
my lines now scattered letters-
Left alone
to stagger
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