ted de Hallam

Sun warms the outside but I'm cold on the inside
Talk to myself but I get no reply
Don't know the answer but still ask the question
What am here for, just a blue sky?
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Petite Fleur, where are you tonight
Flows your hair still to your waist
And around that face of light
Petite Fleur, how I miss your delight
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Only infinity awes me
And it frightens me
As did any woman I ever loved
And the fear is of impotence
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You can't see me, how you know
I'm up above you down below
Gazing on such sweet repose
Nice feet, suggestive toes.
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Flossie died, so sad, I cried
Surprised at how I felt inside
A rabbit we had known for years
Will no longer flick her ears
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Please take me before my eyes
Without them I'll not face it
I really cannot visualise
A life without it's day's surprise
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I do have faith
It is not blind
Each day I see
My god is me
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Each evening he makes an appearance
And someday they'll make him a star
He's Toulouse-Lautrec on the Costa
The old tart the end of the bar.
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Rhythm is all.Have a ball
If you don't feel the beat
You won't get the heat
Or even the meet
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Two dead carrots in the bottom o' the 'frig
Half a tin o' sardines with a turned-up lid
Nothing in the freezer, typically geezer
Is this a way to live, I ask myself
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Back in my adoration
Safe near my centre you lie
Would I could tell my thoughts
They're of you quite frequently
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Be good to a Granny
And you'll discover
Someone to tell stuff
You daren't tell your mother
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You nightly delight me
But always politely
Sometimes I can't wait until nine.
To see you in in satin
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Solo

She laughed when he got up to play
Upon his organ one fine day
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Rolling back the long lost years
Searching through the hazy
A memory to define for me
A one I knew as
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A poem is a song within words
Can be silly or serious, even delirious
Get off on a Muse
Be absurd
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At first I thought her merely pretty
Though that's enough but life goes on
Now I think she might just fit me
I hope it so, I will respond.
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Father unknown, mother committed
Raised as an orphan as was her sister
At fourteen in service, a taste of those rich lives
That gave her ambition a strength to be likewise
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Fame is fleeting, ferocious, ephemeral
Just like sex but less epidemical
Neither last. nor should they oughter
But oh! for a dance with the devil's daughter.
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