Food on Friday ~ Aphrodite’s Herbalist
herbs demonstrate the earth’s nurturing love
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there is a love called the herbs
which knows seasons and extraction
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which chooses and uses through filtration
the pungent perfume of timed infusion
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aromatic alchemical warmed fluids
medicinal herbs mystical magical uses
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richly potent oils from maceration
concentrated to potions by decoction
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glistening alcoholic secret distillation
Aphrodisiac attention to her golden skin
sensual memories of myriad loves
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
sage is a psychotropic aphrodisiac
sensual women should beware
its dreams of desire
Driving Rhyme
promiscuity is about sex, not about relationships
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I drove day and night
to get to her
neither sane nor right
I wrecked the car
for what, just a cheat
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
cheating on a good man is like
throwing away a diamond
and picking up a brick
Sports Car Poetry
drive her like it’s your last day
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long wide roads
soft top hard driving
toward the setting sun
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
any colour you like
as long as she’s white
Arc Troubles
it wasn’t raining until Noah built the arc
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Noah though he could fix the arc
with just a phillips screwdriver
the geese disagreed
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with thanks to Paula Light for the phillips, thought, geese prompt
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Canada Geese, the golfers least favourite bird
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Paperback Writer
poetry is a equal mixture of English and angst
The printed version of my poetry anthology Seascapes and Serenity Lost should be available on Amazon within the next couple of hours. It’s a 10 by 8 inches, magazine-sized, paperback. So, I thought this old Beatles song would be rather fun.
There’s also a much cheaper kindle version of the book.
Of course the paperback will look great on your coffee table.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the picture is mine too
it’s all in a dream
Poetry Anthology
Seascapes and Serenity Lost
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You can probably learn more about me by reading some of my poetry anthology than you could ever learn from anything I ever posted on here ~ and I have promulgated some gritty and very personal stuff.
Anyhow, my anthology is now available on Amazon, in several important countries, including the US, UK, and points east. (For some good reasons, for the next few days the print copy is ‘author only’)
The words and pictures are all my own work, and there are a lot of photographs interleaved with the poetry.
I am also deeply indebted to Jan Olandese, who edited the whole thing.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the shining sea
talks with me
a carnal woman
maybe she was that way because she was sad and lonely
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leaving a carnal, sexual, woman
one battle over, one victory won
the long struggle that will end
one day in honesty and freedom
not for her, not for years to come
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
heading to her favorite bar
to look for a much younger man
Armistice Day
they were young, they were pals, 744,000 of them died
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they shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
at the going down of the sun and in the morning
we will remember them.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
lest we forget
sad sweet goodbye
you never lose someone you have truly loved
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let the rains fall
and wash away her tears
let me be strong
and take away her fears
let me be kind enough
to wish her well
now she loves another
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
walking away from everything
carnal drinking is messy
addicted to sex, hitting the bars, picking up younger men
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I was mystified
she cheated and lied
sadly that’s bad
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
she likes young men
when she can get them
and they know what to do
