Poems by Paul Hirst

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  • Running my fingers across the stone the carved...
    Loved By All But Died Alone...

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    Scatter my ashes in the places we walked
    where we sat and watched sunsets...

  • Jesus was a Carpenter
    Wood and Nails His trade...

  • Cannon be my headstone
    Canvas be my shroud...

  • I was born aged 93 toothless gums and arthritic...
    Whispy scalp and liver spots faded away the...

  • Sun and Moon look eye to eye there is frost upon...
    Goodday, Goodnight the planets yawn as night fades...

  • Oh my beautiful girl how have we come to this to...
    Our first date I waited four hours in pouring rain...

  • I slumber with Morpheus and he has his way with me...
    Or so it seems in these waking dark dreams...

  • The house is so quite as I walk down the stairs...
    beard rasping on my calloused hand the ticking of...

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    I open sleep filled eyes and the scent of you...
    It lingers and torments beckons me from the bed...

  • Sitting here in the gloom of this small and barred...
    My mind is free if not me to wander happily were I...

  • Happy Valentine's my dear
    Its been another wonderful year...