Along with reams of short stories, and longer attempts at fiction, I’ve written countless poems over the decades. The bulk were written in my teens and twenties and I literally have folders full of handwritten and typewritten compositions.

I’d been threatening to put a selection into print since the mid-90’s. I remember discussing it with an old girlfriend in ’95 but a number of things always seemed to stop me. Part of that was not really being sure if I wanted to share them with the world, part was never having the time to go through what was amounting to thousands of bits of paper – ranging from typed and formatted finished compositions to hand written stanzas on the back of paper bags, or anything I had at hand when inspiration hit.

A few years ago I finally got round to sorting out a collection and published them under the title “Wild Card Symphonies”. Consisting of three smaller volumes of my work, “Wild Card Symphonies”, “Cry To Me”, and “This Graveyard Heart”, the book totaled just over 120 poems. You can buy a copy (plug plug) through Lulu on one of the links at the bottom of the page if you like what you read and want to have more.

EXIT

Tell me what should I do

when you lift my life so far

That I don’t want anything else

And then you reach down with your caress

And tear my eyes from me

And push me to your exit

Is this how you silence a machine

Tie them down and tear them up

My aching heart you parade before me

Describing things I’ll now never see

Telling me you never felt that way

Afterall, these things happen.

Don’t they?

Well this isn’t the first time

And I’ll regrow what I’ve lost to you

And I’ll keep telling myself to trust

Even with memories of betrayal

As fresh as my scars

And as old as my heart.

(EXIT; By A R J ABRANSON; 09-07-95/21:43)

My poetry anthology, Wild Card Symphonies, is available to buy now on Lulu in both Softcover and Dust Jacket Hardcover.

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