Josephine Collett Poems

Dawn comes
with a faint lightness
on the eastern horizon
before the splendour
...

Blankets wrapped around me
warm as your loving arms,
I stretch out a hand in the darkness,
Knowing tension and tiredness
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I left with plans
of journeys into life,
impressive sights, exhilarating sounds
the coursing pulse of friendship, dancing, wine
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Blue irises,
tiny, unfolding,
Against a backdrop
of green, arching spires
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Here I am for your pleasure-
Enjoy my humiliation,
Savor my degradation,
Even though I asked for it,
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In the stillness of a winter night
when all the world is hushed and gone to bed
I walk alone the garden paths
and watch the myriad stars
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cocooned inside this
bravely decorated cave
watching teardrops trickling,
down the windowpanes, trapped
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not just for the dark
sleek headed kelpie, leaving
but for the little girl
in the window watching
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A college art assignment
was my first
self-portrait.
Then the teenage-girl studied
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discarded
broken, tossed aside
sharp and hurtful she rides
adrift in an ocean of aquamarine
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