Exhausted

Dazed, drained by

Conversant words
Shaping verse while

Lines mingle with one

Another, passions thirsting
Never the same twice 
Dreams apprehended by

By Nostalgia's fleeting arm

Seeking shallower waters
Bypassing undertow's
Hold,searching for
Rhymes tattooed on
Soul's heavy heart.

Edwin James


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A Songwriter 

Writing under dawn's early light

Immersed in lighthearted folly

An overture sound almost right

Taking him back to his beach colony

His line surfing under rhyme

A verse is flushed, realized

Windward, sailing back in time

Approaching green seas fantasized

Courting in D, F and G

An ensuing harmonic rhapsody

Launches his song out to sea

A melody flows naturally

Navigated by memories

Winged by sailor's brawn

Waters without boundaries
Sailing across lights earlier dawn.

Edwin James

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Two Hearts

Escaping 

Winter's bite

Sharing a love

Maybe for the

Last time

Sensing

Their fires

Burning desire

Never wanting their

Love to fade or

Turn to ash

Another log is

Added to the fire

Maybe for the

Last time

Two hearts

Beating as one

Against all odds
Unable to keep
Their song's heart

Free, never wanting

Anything more.

Edwin James


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