FAIR EXCHANGE

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poem, poetry, sexual symbolism

FAIR EXCHANGE

you sent me
Rihanna songs

I sent you
poems by
Charles Bukowski

your long musician’s fingers
my gnarled hands

and then
that chess thing

you play king’s pawn
I play the pawn
in front of the queen

and we look like
come from opposite
sides of the chessboard

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LOOKING FOR THE BOOK I LOST BY MR KASPAROV

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poem, poetry

LOOKING FOR
THE BOOK I LOST
BY MR. KASPAROV

I love chess
I hate chess

the beauty of the attack
the inexorable pressure
that leads to defeat

the sacrifice
Ah, yes
the ecstasy of
the sacrifice

everything there
suddenly so clear: that
door opening and
the regret of
hindsight

you took the bait
and it was
all so pure, so
calculated

a thought
painted by Picasso
the white and the black
suddenly exploding into Technicolor

if only life had
moves like this, you sigh,
as your Queen takes centre
stage radiating power

in life
it’s hard to stop bishops
slipping onto the wrong diagonal
the knights
hemmed in at
the side of the board

the centre a no-man’s land of
trenches and barbed wire

and the game
unplayed, unplayable
no decision
to be made

so many pages still to get through
page upon page of
strategy and tactics
art of love heaped
upon art of war.

SPIGOT

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poem, poetry, sexual symbolism

SPIGOT

love gushes
out a spigot

as flakes
from Heaven
love floats
down

love
growls
cackles
gurgles
chuckles

wolf howls alone
in the night
if anything

like mine

LOVE CARTEL

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poem, poetry, satire

LOVE CARTEL

what the world needs
is a love injection

but you say “No”
what the world needs
is soldiers for God
and world conquest

we need to mainline
strength and honour
to serve accumulation

let the cartels in the
South American jungles
the growers in
the Asian mountains
grow us the stuff
we need to be
best at our game
of vigilance and
eternal protection

not love, we need
to clear
our drug forests
of that weed

TO HIDE THAT THING

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poem, poetry, Universe

TO HIDE THAT
THING

give
away
hide away

as if this thing love
came in small packages, little
Beatle songs, so
beautiful but
the boys had not

expanded to take
in the Universe yet

the one without
and the one
within

both infinite when
it comes to
love

no finding a space
to hide that thing

POEM IN PARTS

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female, male, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, sexual symbolism

POEM
IN PARTS

your eyes
sore
from reading
so much
of my
poetry

your ears still
ringing from
when did
last recite

time to
forget the
top
find the
middle-woman

she so
appreciative of
every
subtext

my rhymes, my
rhythms

such a
subtle effect on
exquisitely
receptive parts

KISSES

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poem, poetry, Universe

I sent
a truck full
of kisses

to your house

best I could do
my lips too
weak

to produce
a mountain

FLOWERS

FLOWERS

let me
find flowers
for you

red
for my heart,

white for
my
skin

yellow
for the
captured
sunlight that
you radiate

blue for
the sky where

I would
soar

with you

KISS

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female, poem, poetry

your kiss
was not
very deep

but it did
encompass the Universe

SLICE

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poem, poetry

SLICE

It was beautiful
it was goodbye

and so,
let the darkness
embrace me
since you
refuse to

eat your crisp
red apple, live
a great life

your slim, dark frame
slipping
out of
the door

out
of my life

your smile
cutting me in half
just one
slice.