https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/Fading charms, stilled wonderment Empty hearts still beating Dreams will be so fleeting Filled with life And you Sadness looming round us loneliness ahead Soon I’ll wish you dead My bitter bride hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/414152Just don’t have anything to eat he said Okay I sighed okay The doctor said it’s nil by mouth Okay okay I know okay They’re going to fix you up said he They’re going to fix you good They’re going to whip that baby out And fix you good as new Okay, I sobbed okay I know And wept and wept and wept...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/395791I looked under the sink last night And found to my surprise A half full bottle of shampoo Before my very eyes A forlorn soap dish, tweezers, comb Nail brush and pumice pack A hundred ear buds in a stack To welcome her back home A bag of brisk white cotton swabs Some crumpled billet doux A ladies...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/389959Tempests rage inside my brain Plunging deeper through my vein Sweep me off my feet I drown Thunder echoes through my bones Subterranean moans Quaking in the breach and foam Around the sound The kraken stirs And spume explodes and rocky crags Peer round the corner in the gloom Bleak eddies...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/389659The taste of sadness Welling foaming bubbles of despair Too many pints The trace of bitter tears Streaming down the glass A thousand wasted nights Too many pints A thousand empty days, Glimpsed through the wet fog Of this endless moment Too many pints (Interactive! You can substitute the name of...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/389403She doesn’t love me I told my Dad She doesn’t love me I told the doctor She doesn’t love me I told her too Oh you! She said But she never said she loved me.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/381403When will I avail My limbs to flail Against hot shards of love Stabbed through me from above Impaled protesting screams Shattering my granite dreams Thorns of agony quenching Tormented tearful questing (Not yet, too soon, and not so hard) Blood spilt and torn flesh scarred To grant no absolution...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/380253Sequinned slippers poking out From layers of tulle and satin She rustled slowly up the aisle The choir trilled on in Latin A lovely bride! She’d cost enough A princess from the gutter A diamond cut from bit of rough My heart was all a flutter The lamb was quaking in delight He shook down to his...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/379078Escaping sudden sickroom sobs I notice through the pane A perfect day of bluster while they cry in vain Spring gusts thrash the gilded trees Someone's having fun Someones racing scudding clouds in the April sun You must think you're flying A perfect day for dying.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/378816Are you my knight in shining armour Will you fight for me and push The dragon to the light Cut my chains then we’ll take flight into the long deep night, My Soldier boy Journeys dust upon your face I can taste the sands Of time from the far place Where y ou left t he world and marched to my...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/dele_campbell/378429I gently touched her arm lured by the promise from svelte curvature of neck With deep unblinking gaze she turned slight smile replaced her hungry mouth and eyes a stranger’s stillness perfected her disguise The deftness of those willing hands her throaty gasping chuckle as I tasted honeydew the...