Thy Photograph Tells A Tale

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Lost

Inbetween the pages
A photograph swayed
Shedding colourful memories
Where love once bloomed
Under the mango trees

Home

Far away in distant land

Photograph in a wallet

Sumptuous bits of homely food

He sought for his childhood

Separation

Under the pillow covers

Lay a photograph

Soaked in tears

There stood his husband

Smiling with pride

Somewhere at the borders

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A Haunting

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an eerie air

stuffed the room

a spooky corner

by the broom

he saw a shadow

behind the curtain

whose bloodshot eyes

tore his vein

as he stood

around the furnace

to calm his senses 

sooth his nerves

the fire ablaze

with a grotesque face

calling his name

a dark voice came

"Welcome my friend

To the house of Living Dead"

and thud he fell

with a broken head

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Glorious Heights

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a small red copter

he jumped over rocky cliff

sky diving he loved

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A Fanciful Whim

It rained that day

On a haven's bay

A soothsayer with cards

Waited on a barren yard

Those questions on his mind

With greed was he blind

He met the sorcerer's eyes

Like fire striking ice

"Oh you boy

What do you wish?

The cards on a deck

Are awaiting your pick

"But wisely choose your pick

And do not frown

As your fortune lay strewn

By the candle wick"

"'Riches' all I want

Of world and wide

As happiness to me

Is what diamonds provide"

"So be it"

said the tarot wizard

"It will rain gold

Instead of hail and cold"

With excitement he cried

Hopped and danced around

Alas what he found

His hopes down profound

Sad it was a dream

A fanciful whim

He rubs his eyes

None hears his utter cries

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Farewell To My Village

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staring at a key

in a town of bamboo huts

she searched for the lock

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