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 May 2019 Nigel Finn
Sophie
Distance
does not
make the
heart
grow fonder.
Instead
the love becomes
weary the mind
makes
mistakes
out of fear.

Distance makes
the heart
estranged
and the world
is enveloped
in a thick
black
fog.
While you
are nowhere
to be found
you said
you’d try but
you haven’t,
and neither
have I.

Forgetfulness
and ignorance
the heart is loud
its beat
pulsing forever
becomes quiet.
You cannot
hear my heart
from wherever
you are
so far away
I can’t hear
yours either

I cupped my hands
behind my ears
trying
but distance
makes the heart
grow weary
tired
gone
 Mar 2019 Nigel Finn
Grace
Haiku
 Mar 2019 Nigel Finn
Grace
Being around you is so joyful
Feels like an endless summer
Never let the golden hour leave us
For a dearest friend
 Feb 2019 Nigel Finn
Yata bionaka
I think of ways and roads oh my!
And paths to take and travel by
And ways both false and sometimes true
But none of them leads me to you

Am chased by ghouls and wraiths of yours
The thought of you is now my curse
You never said we'd chart this course
Now am pursued by ghosts of you

Why? I'd ask. And my reply
Would be that love does multiply
And hearts are eager to comply
Am chased myself but not like you

I was captured and my captors taunt
They let me leave then set to hunt
They give me all the things i want
But deny me sweet old thoughts of you

The faces here are sweet and fair
The leaves are green and flowers here
Here's fragrance more than I can bear
But all is not that's not of you

All the land that has you not
All the games that played you not
All the tales you hadn't taught
Are false and so cannot be true.

I see your pain and feel it too
You swore as I and daily do
This depth that aches with woes and rue
Cannot be whole except with you

I know, but know thee I am naught
Then what? Pray tell becomes my lot
Am gone and life is what you've got
But life alone is life with you

I've broken turns and  brokered terms
I've come to great tormenting harms
I've waited, prayed and done the psalms
Just to be again with you

Been years since your teeth were beams
And since my tears had streaked in streams
And since the earth had claimed your hymns
Since I'd been lost in dreams of you
The tales of loss are oh so common and they never grow old.
 Jan 2019 Nigel Finn
nivek
HP Poets.
 Jan 2019 Nigel Finn
nivek
the agenda
a poet?
Sure
why not?

I like to imagine I and all poets are on the side of love,
of course time again I find myself falling far short.

But that's when fellow poets with their songs
full of the truth of their lives

make his poor poet thankful
and begin to sing, once more.
Perfectionist I am,
but able am I not
A look inside my mind
and all you'll find is rot

True worry it may bring
to witness all this waste;
to look behind the mess
and see my living space

But worry not, dear sweet
for rain is coming soon
to wash away my past
and all the sadness too

The Spring is rolling in
along with all its age
I'll be okay again
and then I'll clean this place
******* it happened again. i really think therapy is working. or maybe its just aquarius season making me creative. i hope its both
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