Separation – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

EXAMPLES OF BEING STUNG

Not all bees write back Not every beetle takes the right route Some letters, like roads, wind on regardless. We don’t always notice the sting Until after, until later, until it’s too late. Honey is sometimes sweetest When far from reach. We wrote words on each other’s back Thinking time to be tender […]

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TURBULENT SACRIFICE

Mama was an unmarried mother at the end of the summer of 75 as Joni hissed of the snakes in the gardens of complacency where ignorance was still very much alive. Mama was only a girl in the growing and possibly no more than just 18 when she bent down and placed a kiss […]

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A SHADOW IN SPRING

Day 28: National Poetry Writing Month #30 Poems, 3 days #NaPoWriMo There on a bench where they both sat down in a far away field in a stranger’s town where on a Sunday when the flowers were waiting they had no idea of what fate was planting. There on the edge of a changing sky […]

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NO KNOT CANNOT BE UNDONE

Day 21 National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo Pulled are we (OFF; no more) from under and over and pushed (panting) by fleeting fate when we fail to trust (when THRUSTS grow frail) and the body rolls off, recoils and the mind rethinks, returns. Let go, did you, of that hand ONCE held in that taxi […]

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ONCE, ON A SUNDAY

And I see you standing with apron on on a Sunday morning, rollers turning mum’s sleep into mother’s style like time turns moments into memory, I see you there roasting in the kitchen before the bacon’s burnt and the sausages sizzle, before the decision of where to go to find God (we were faithful […]

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THE THINGS THAT LEAVE US COLD, PART 3

If you missed Part 1 or Part 2 you can click on the links here: https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/08/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-1/ https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/2016/02/09/the-things-that-leave-us-cold-part-2/ The Things That Leave Us Cold Part 3 of 4 (Audio version available to listen to; link at the end of page) It rained the first night I walked back to our apartment with […]

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THE THINGS THAT LEAVE US COLD, PART 1

The Things That Leave Us Cold Part 1 of 4 (Audio version available to listen to; link at the end of page) I stood by the open window and watched and waited, surrounded on all sides by the wisteria that clung on as time passed by and forgave nothing. It […]

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THE STORM

I stood, firm footed against fate, beside the storm, A raucous rage of twisting winds and hollow howls As waves, frothing with fierce foam, forced their way Upon the land, as if claiming some right to survive. I saw, amid the sweeping sound of the stormy sea As it clawed, climbed and crashed its way […]

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THE REASON AND THE RHYME

Goodbye he said As the train door closed And sliced our world in two Goodbye I thought What a word to use At the end of me and you Goodbye he said And I wondered what Good there was in farewell Goodbye I thought As he left me there Hurt and unhappy in hell Goodbye […]

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THE DRAW OF ANOTHER DAWN

Sitting Wrapped in blankets, In search of comfort, In a corner, Away from the mirth And the madness. Sitting Wrapped in thoughts, Distance dividing sorrow, Tears washing away Your image. Sitting As the piano plays, Tickling tunes Taunt with tension, Tinged with regret. Sitting Worrying about The what has been, While waiting For the what […]