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.

Like Kisses

Black is the wax

That runs down her face,

Like tears fall

Onto the sand,

And disappear

Like kisses,

Like kisses fade.

–

With the passing of time

We grow old

And the kisses fade

From our memory.

Memories,

Loves of yesterday.

–

Now I can only watch

As the flowers die

And are trampled to dust

Before me.

Now all I can do

Is watch as the flowers die.

–

Visions are forming

Before my eyes,

Pictures of youth

And of love,

But like kisses,

Like kisses they fade.

–

Now they’ve gone away,

The pictures of our yesterdays

Like our memories fade,

Our minds forget

The feelings we felt of love,

And the love that we made.

–

Now all that remains

Of our yesterdays

Are the thoughts that we have

Of the love we made,

But even they are fading,

They’re fading away,

They’re fading away,

From us.

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(LIKE KISSES By A R J Abranson; 03-01-90/16:15)

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

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