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.

Guard Me So Jealously

I don’t think that you love me

I think that you may just be using me

To gain the warmth and comfort I give

To give you the loving that I offer to you

You guard me so jealously

Like you never want to see me leave

But you give so little of yourself

And what you give you tell me not to believe

I don’t think that you love me

Not in the way that I want you to

You guard me so jealously

But give so little of yourself in return

How much longer do you think it’ll last

Before I turn around with tears in my heart

And leave you for someone

To share with me the things I love

And the things we love together

I don’t think you love me

But I’m hoping that you’ll prove me wrong.

(GUARD ME SO JEALOUSLY By A R J Abranson, 08-08-95/11:33)

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

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