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Tragedy | Gemelene Magalona - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Tragedy | Gemelene Magalona

I left for you,

the hollow silhouette
of a faithful shadow
lurking in the wistful wilderness

where echoes of despair
wail in the crippling thickness
of a drowning silence engulfed
by yesterday’s haunting melodies

I left for you,

the plague of a lie
draped with the dulcet tones
from a vow-stricken promises
of eternity’s black veil of fallen petals

I burn the effigy
of poison laden dreams
and buried it in the
April graveyards of my crimson veins.

I left for you,

the jagged reflections
of my pristine memoirs,
as I rip my heart tonight
in tragedy of us.

Ten Years from Now | Jim Bellamy - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Ten Years from Now | Jim Bellamy

Cold, grey city
with cold, grey faces,
hands in pockets,
eyes expressionless and pale.

Queues of resigned people,
standing years apart,
each one thinking thoughts
that the other can’t impart.

Five foolish girls
share a forbidden fag,
glancing over their shoulders
with stilettos in a bag.

And in ten years time,
when they have been moulded
into mature, married women,
they will stand

In queues of resigned people,
standing years apart
in their own allotted spaces,
choking in the dark.

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