Simon Lawson Poems

We fell in love too early it seemed,
The odds were against us.
The world; cruel and mean,
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Tell me
Do birds think humans sing?
Do they say?
"Aye, wait for the murmuring of the humans"
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The mind is a teacup.

Made of bone china, it can be chipped, broken if dropped.
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I don't know why,
certain things are written
and others are not.
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One must never be too busy for a poem,
or a good book,
for life is long but so is it short
and whilst a day with purpose is well spent
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Love has stilled,
the waters of my heart.
Tamed the floods,
that shook the dry earth
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It’s easy to think one is in love
Alas to exist in a state of ignorant bliss
You think you love, what have you missed?
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Looking Back

Looking back has never been so easy
but the bottom drops out from under me
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I have had to grow a leather soul
thick enough
to stifle cold
tough enough
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it was just a few words
tied together in a disgruntled sentence
hardly ill-meaning,
with
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