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.

Loving Grace

You weave in me your mystery

Your spells of loving grace.

You pull me down on you

And make me a part of you.

But I don’t want to believe…

I don’t want to feel,

What I can’t help feeling for you.

You corrupt my purity

As you bath me in your sin,

You enhance my senses

As you enslave my emotions.

You live for the darkness

And the physical need to touch.

But I’m lying to myself again

When I say I don’t miss you

And I promise not to see you.

You keep my mind away

Wrapping me in your emotion,

Pulling me down on you

And making me part of you.

But I just don’t understand

Why it should mean so much to me.

Why I should miss you.

Why I keep dreaming of you.

Was your mystery so great

As your mastery of me appears.

Did your painted lips come near

To awakening the truth in me ?

But I don’t want to believe,

I don’t want to feel,

What I can’t help feeling for you.

(LOVING GRACE By A R J Abranson; 08-06-94/23:33)

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

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