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.

Temptation

Dreaming Colors

Of astral light

While in the arms

Of a devils child

Tempting me

To spend the night

In the heavenly delight

Of their embrace.

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I turn away

And look for escape

All I can see is dark

Apart from the light

That shines in you.

–

Go away.

Far away.

God I don’t want this,

Can’t handle this.

Again I cry in remembrance.

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It’s just a trick of the light

That makes me think

That you’re looking my way

Through this illegal haze

That’s affecting my mind.

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I am dreaming colours

Of astral light

While I hold you close to me

And battle my inner fear

Of what I should do tonight.

If only wishes came true.

–

Go away.

Far away.

God I don’t want this,

Can’t handle this.

Again  I cry in remembrance.

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Battling the monsters that invade my mind

And the feeling of love that still resides in me

Indecision wrecks my mind

And then you’re lost to me

Gone away, lost to time.

(TEMPTATION By A R J Abranson, 01-09-90/00:21)

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

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