5/31/13

Proud Banner
By Paul Tristram


Hold tall once again
that proud banner of love,
for I am coming for you.
Like damn busting whisky,
like a thousand year old tree to the ground.
Like apricots to thirst.
Like the carnival to Eden.
Sense the truth in what I say.
Open up arms of gentle forever.
Let me slide inside like destiny.
Let us unwrinkle the years
with the knowing of our secret.
Stretch not imagination but reality.
For together we shall chart
new realms of ecstasy.
As one and with one
proud banner of our love.


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Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and sketches published in many publications around the world, he yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight, this too may pass, yet.