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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Too Sudden
The bitter scent of Maples, Dust and rain, Make this street A remembered pain. Dark and secretive Windows gleam, Breaking my heart With things I've seen. You are…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
The Windfall House ...Part 2
Fran and I had inherited a Victorian row house in the Kensington district of Toronto. The Windfall House as I called it should have comforted me—after all, it was passed down…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Black Rain
Rain is falling As I am falling Into a sadness now, Out of bed I'd end in the woods Darker than blacker boughs; I won't be nearer To you then—in ways Further away…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
Dark Yule ...Finale
A man vows, and yet will not cast away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
In the Dark
Rain darkens everything: Each drop A black grain of misery Holding All the world’s pain And none of its sympathy; ... And it’s pouring again Beating a rhapsody A…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Hearing Voices
It begins with isolation, Blank stares and faces, Demons In desolate places. No one seeks To be oppressed, Simply suffers And accepts. Yes, I digress— To speak of…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
Christmas Longings ...Part 3 ...Fact vs. Fiction
Christmas is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. ― Graham…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Snowbound
The coloured windows of the houses dance Like the happiest of dreams before me, In this snow that hides Your house from mine. And you must be at the window Watching the…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Same
I I’m the same As when I dreamt Of you, Before I knew Your name; Before I journeyed To your city, In hopes Of starting Life again. I’m the same As I first saw…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
The Room Suddenly Bright
I wake and sense The snow Sifting Past the window, Blindly seeking Completion After the law Of beginnings and ends. Like this poem A turning inward To the soft…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
A Good Man of Business ...A Weathered Stone
'But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. 'Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. 'Mankind…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
Out of Time ...Finale
“She has a look," I said, "of not altogether belonging to today.” ― Robert Nathan I'm sitting in the Clinton Tavern with Kath, a girl I rescued from the rain. She was…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Threadbare Lover
I want to depict you, Paint you in words , But you know me— Your impoverished lover With a Scrabble bag Of letters. It’s my infirmity To be ethereal Not know your…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
Out of Time ...Part 3
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence ― T.S. Eliot I rescued a girl I found dazed and wandering in the…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Ruin
But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin? —Atwood The Moon asleep In a blue haze Up in the dark heights, And you somewhere Thinking of me…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Rainy Walk
A rainy walk At night Will cure almost anything. I want it so much, Beloved, For this storm to give me Dark words of love… The same ones That broke your heart. So…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
Abominable Snowman
There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken with good motive, but nevertheless hypocrisy! ― Agatha Christie Beth I…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Covert Lover
These nights, these nights, The soul’s limitations; Everything cramped— Too large for spaces. I'm fearful Of the lamps’ oases, Obliterating Our magic places. A giant…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
Green Energy ...Part 3 ...Off the Grid with Coyotes
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. —Joseph Conrad I'm being pushed and pulled by two neighbours to see…
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johnjgeddes (77)in #writing • 4 years ago
Crimes Across Time ...Finale ...Breaking the Time Barrier
Justice delayed is justice denied, as Gladstone said, but the real culprit is time; the more time passes, the less relevant action becomes, until finally, it doesn’t matter at…
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