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Vampire Killed By Love

I have a friend who is big into all Vampire stories, and we were discussing the saying about who loves the flower …

Three Magpies a Wedding Watched

To Geraldine & Joe, on the occasion of their wedding! There is an old Irish tradition that three magpies at a wedding …

To One Side I Must Cast My Pen

Verses written win all hearts bar hers She is a slave to life, passion and chance: I am a walker of safe …

Alchemy in Reverse

The wizard that is life and its cruel blows Takes the dreams we have been sold Smashes them before our very eyes …

I Was the Reluctant Lover

This poem was inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London a few years ago, and is in fact a …

Bloody War of Romance

It died at birth, not that it lived Just a notion, foolish, a man Has to dream, to live, to desire But …

What Could Never Be

In half sleep, half dreaming Darkness fills the midnight sky Stars twinkle behind the clouds That hide them from my eye… She …

My Heart Will Not Keep Her Warm

My heart will not keep her warm Nor will it keep her dry But in my heart shell have a home Until …

Willie Rimes Meets His Valentine

The bould Willie Rimes, the love of his life, a lot of Russian chaps, an empty bank account, couple of cops and …

Snowflakes in Another Land

Her heart beats for another, Life goes on, he who has her hand, And her heart, makes it beat faster, Under snowflakes …

Consequences of a Drunken Cupid

I love you , I hate you at the same time” he said As she sobbing, begged him to stay Two drunken …

King Congal’s Grief

Congal, the proud king, his wife a prince bore Alas, in giving to her son his life She lost hers, tragic the …

Thought I – A Poem I’ll Write

Thought I: a poem I’ll write For her every day, Though never loved was she by I My feelings for her I’d …

Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration

The second verse refers to the Lady of the Sweetest Smile, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, …

She Seeks

She seeks, each morning new, her desire And me? I remember her, she who I did desire Dripping, rain finds home from …

When Aged, Who Will Hold Her Hand?

When aged, who will hold her hand, Remember joys and woes, And who will hold mine when aged am I, As life …

The Courtly Lovers

Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile Wrought tears from my heart, not blood: From me she has flown, from afar …

What Is Not to Be

Some things are not to be: Winning the lottery And other such things Man can live without For man can live As …