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Tag: Metaphor

Poetry

Contemplation

September 4, 2020 Alex Sarll2 Comments

Those old creams and colours of contentment, calming in the context of waiting rooms and therapists offices are now offset, finally by the powder blue and silver beige carpet of the first place which has really felt like home for a long time. A space, after the aqua blue of the smoking room of Delius…… Continue reading Contemplation

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New beginning

September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 Alex SarllLeave a comment

I spent time deliberating over the title of this post. This may not sound particularly note-worthy but as it neatly sums up the main vein running through this article I thought I’d make reference to it. I’ve just moved into a new flat. It’s absolutely beautiful and I have found myself tonight slightly mesmorised by…… Continue reading New beginning

Poetry

Ascent (poem)

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 Alex Sarll1 Comment

I fell into seawater. Descended too far, the pressure was almost too much for my ears. But something pulled me up- some warm surge of power a current racing towards the light through so much dark debris and out into clearer aqua blues and greens. I emerged with sea weed in my hair, bloody from…… Continue reading Ascent (poem)

Poetry

Unrequited lust (poem)

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 Alex Sarll2 Comments

I am adrift and un-anchoured. When you sit next to me the blue carpet beneath us rolls and the sofa pitches as if we are aboard a vessel steaming across a vast uncharted ocean. Waves rock and roll us and the motion is relentless- I can taste salt on my lips and feel the wet…… Continue reading Unrequited lust (poem)

Poetry

Movement (poem)

July 14, 2019September 10, 2019 Alex SarllLeave a comment

The present moment, a mess of interpretation a puzzle strewn across my minds eye.   Leaves scattered across an old picnic blanket left behind after the long summer day.   The night winds blow cold now through the eaves and echoes of laughter and screams of delight idle away like wet foot prints across a…… Continue reading Movement (poem)

Poetry

Chew me up, spit me out

March 17, 2019July 14, 2019 Alex SarllLeave a comment

Oh mad world- you want to chew me up and spit me out so badly and I am tempted, I cannot deny the heady scent of your hot saliva, dripping, steaming calls out to something in my blood, something salty red and present which only wants to be devoured. It’s just that- there’s another urge…… Continue reading Chew me up, spit me out

Poetry

White pill

April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 Alex Sarll5 Comments

White pill- you are my compromise. Not accepting you means delusion realised. You are my answer to the aches and screams, my solution to the ill at ease, I swallow you whole, yet you consume me, your chemical daze inebriates me, dull daze, dull gaze. While I am with you I can’t claim to be…… Continue reading White pill

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