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.

Silent Fruit

Even though I’m further away

Than I’ve been before

I can still see the silver lights shining

In the doorways of my whore.

And even though I’m cold inside

The drugs that dance keep keeping me alive,

And all I’m asking of you

Is to wait a little while until you’re older,

Is to save part of your treasure for a year or two.

Then you can give me your sanctuary.

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I’m not about to complain

About the songs the radio is crying,

Or the morbid attraction you give me

In your approval of my pain,

In the lust that fires my eyes,

Calling out names, remembering places

Of little connection with your night.

I wish some scenes were forgotten

But they’ll never be erased from this mind

In all the silence that awaits me.

(SILENT FRUIT By A R J Abranson; 23-06-94/20:12)

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

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