Mark R Slaughter Poems

A hopeful heart – handing out illusions –
Worn atop a satin sleeve;
Naivety was dripping out delusions –
'Twas an open gash – to so deceive
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Antidisestablishmentarianism:
The longest word I know.
It’s great for all the parties -
I use it just for show!
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Charismatic ginger tom, you act the loving pet.
Agile slayer more the role - you garden fiend - and yet
Tyrant beast, you too can scream – we simply call the vet!
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I’d wait for eons and forever
Were my dream of us together
Blessed a single chance of only coming true.
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Ugly said it all.
I played with light,
Smeared the glass,
Blurred my vision -
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Pride struck the pose; the bugle hailed
And bid them stand a little taller - ‘Chest out! '
They'd fought their battles years ago ‘You know,
When I were a lad, we ‘ad it bad! '
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I'm oddly old

young-mind paradox
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Grief crushed –
Failed my weakened frame.
Tears poised in
Broken eyes –
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Even this great mist that drowned the forest,
Relented to Him: grey billows gave, and
flanked servilely as He moved forwards -
towards me - as if passing through befogged pillars
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My cat thinks I’m a plonker.
'And why? ' I hear you ask:

‘O puddy-wuddy sweety beeps,
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