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.

Why ?

I don’t pretend to know the reasons

I can’t afford to learn them

If I did I don’t think I could.

Talk too much and people forget,

But then I’ve nothing much to say

That hasn’t been cried over before.

I didn’t want to get it wrong

It just left in a blink of my eye

And it’s a secret to me

Why ?

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No, nothing makes sense

But I can’t pretend it hasn’t happened,

I can’t pretend nothing went wrong,

But believe me when I say

I wish….

But only in dreams will it be true.

The reality doesn’t exist

Where tears haven’t been spilt

Over words that weren’t meant

And questions of why ?

(WHY ? By A R J Abranson, 21-12-92/20:02)

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

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