Modern LoveOnce you wrote me a lurid love letterand our distance didn't matter.Images of seduction lived inside my headwildly wicked words, warmed my lonely bed.Once the phone became my lover's midnight touchand the time apart didn't mean too much.Whispered words graphically, explicitly toldof all the things you'd do to save ... More..
Sheltered PlacesDeath and love in sheltered places,hearts entwined still or racing.Remembered things, long dead and gone,words so empty, end this song.Inwardly dying. Oh God, and the cryingrivers of pain, drive me insane.The pills on the tableI'm reading the labelfortelling my fate.The calendar screaming the date.Never, ever ... More..
Slowly,with finessing fingertipsand then your lipsyou take me apart.Right from the startyour touch and your tasteurgent, compellingpledging, taunting and tellingus to take.To giverestlessly, rolling aroundsilence the only soundpulsating, purging the needoverloaded with greeddarkness, instantly radiatesflows, triumphantly anni... More..
A Typically Late Valentine for My Lovely HusbandWrite me a love lettersing me a soppy songunder my windowall night long.Dance naked in my gardena rose between your teethover broken glasswith tacks underneath.Make me coffeeany hour of the night or dayhelp me with the houseworklisten to what I say.Take me to chick-flicksinstead... More..
As Roses BloomAs roses bloom, the garden's quietly kept,in shady tree-lined cresents neatly swept.On village greens the past playfully prances,Morris Men jangle in comic pagan dances.Idyllic images of Englishness invokepatriotic nostalgia reality can't revoke.A nation of shopkeepers with outstretched hand,in parks, picture pe... More..
A Love Poem to...Me?Am I looking for a love that will last?For a person who doesn't bailout fast.Who when invited stays all nightand in the morning and doesn't take fright.Someone to bring me tea in bedand say all the things I need said.Full stop. Back to realityaway from romance and banality.Just for arguments sakeI make ano... More..
One last wheezing breathdeath, comes in the nightold and the frailyoung without fear.Sadness lifelessly expressedleft behindcrying drained tearfullybleak, the havoc wreaked.No more mundane daysno more laying in bedwarm in each othercomfortably content thencold uncomplicated achepumps pessimistically though me.Eyes blurred, bl... More..
The Last WaltzBlood red roses sybolizedlong lost life, angrily dispised.Laughter proving her lack of careguarding her mind against dispair.Shrouded in darkness, clothed in paindancing around, whilst going insane.Empty places filled by cocaine,listening, longing, as she taps on a vein.Pounding, the grim dirge plays in her head... More..
Another new start. Where?Not that I careI've been here before,another new door.In a street just like this,living in blighted bliss.You want to change course?Well it's your lifeI'm only your wifeand if our world isn't right,we'll sleep on it another night.You're leaving. Why?Need your own spaceout of the rat raceat a more plac... More..
Thank you mother for giving meall the things I need to be.For showing me how to live my lifethough you were just a mother, a wife.Thank you for the values you passed on to meeven though we disagree.And when I think of you todaythese are the things I want to say.We'll just forget I left home at sixteenor the bedroom I point bl... More..
Evelyn G Ward
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