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.

Television

Hear the whistling

Behind the screen

It’s always there

And it’s inviting you in.

It’s there behind the faces

Telling you lies,

The ones you’ve come to

Listen to

The ones that control

each and every lie.

It’s stolen into your head again

Subliminals reaching for your eyes,

Too entranced to switch off,

Too addicted to realise

What’s happening through the wires.

Listen not to what the others say

The corrupters, the abused,

Keep your eyes open

To the one and only truth.

There’s a power behind those words,

There’s a power now in you.

Something stirs in vision

Materialising on the screen,

Its command is a million times

Calling for you to come in.

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Your life is not your own.

A puppet in control

Of a million liars

From a dozen dreams.

If only I had seen

What you’d really known

Then perhaps we could

Have stopped the unforgiven.

(TELEVISION; By A R J Abranson; 28-08-92/19:15)

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

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