Terence George Craddock Poems

bury mind among scattered leaves
seal memory within painless vault
but love surfaces cracking jagged ice
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about your shoulders
body thins like vapour
vanishing before last gasp
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always hear the sound echo
high-heeled footsteps walking away
shimmers hair streams golden
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like a tide beached mariner
travel with wind ever howling
teeth ever gust biting biting
cold steel into back blistered
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Weep wethered keening wind ash-
coloured shroud mist fugitive.
Flee rush. On without rest. Forever
searching forever transient
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weep wethered
keening wind
ash-coloured
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I miss you! I miss you!
I miss you! Screams the wind.
Spatter of rain gusted upon
frosted streaming window pane.
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see solitary scholar by night light late burning lamp
shadow cast electricity a limitless constant amp
knowledge vast in sifted class kind we store
studious study in focused lengthening labour bore
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perceive
solitary scholar
by late
burning lamp
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once
by degrees
of ever
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