Dennis Green Poems

We laugh together, childlike
and our hearts giggle along
and for an instant, touch.
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Clouds
stalking black
about my heart
for so long now.
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Born in the theatre
he grew wary
of actors
(make up artists) .
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Let them strip us bare
and mock our imperfections,
for they are ignorant of the laws they breach.
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Oh stumbly tumbly me
upon this tiny piece of planet,
and to gaze at such
vast blue beauty of sky.
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Maybe if we
(everyone of us)
gave just a piece of our love,
gathered all in a bundle, and then:
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Too many reasons for pounding fists and my heart
left stranded on the catwalk, calling
names engraved like looking glass nostalgia
faced with sudden teardrops, falling.
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Someone moulded a landscape out of mud
hung up a velvet sky
then cut out some cardboard walls
and lots of paper soldiers to put inside.
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Once in a (while
your heart isn't looking)
along comes little someone
who (quite casually)
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Before mass
Daddy gave me sixpence
to buy a guardian angel with
he said,
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