Paul Tristram - Issue 35

Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and flash fiction 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. His novel “Crazy Like Emotion”, collection of shorter fiction “Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves”, full-length poetry collections “The Dark Side Of British Poetry”, "It Is Big & It Is Clever", “South Wales Outlaw” and “Uncivil Disobedience Is My Forte” are all available by Close To The Bone Publishing.

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Comeback’s An Understatement

So ‘Poignant’

… finding

yourself

inside

of… ‘Loss’.

Spring’ll

always

re-take

Crown

& Throne

from

Winter.

Footsteps

regain

steadiness

after a fall,

gradually

at first

… and,

you will

remain

(eternally)

thankful…

that you

persevered.

Refusing

to stay

stuck

… saved

you from

despondency

… and

your 8

of Pentacles

attitude…

brought

along

Wisdom

to couple

this ‘Victory’.

Approach

… oh, but I only mentioned

‘as warm and toasty

as a hibernating

dormouse’s armpit’

… to crack the ice,

and change direction

away from her questions.

We should always be alone

when ‘THIS’ happens

… come yuh, quick!

Looking at you squarely,

sends me spinning in circles

… and every provision

I have prepared and ready

… disintegrates into nothing

as soon as you… Appear.

Clairvoyants (plural)

told me about you…

in St Austell, St Day,

Looe, Plymouth, Las Vegas,

and the Swansea Valleys…

and, still, I was unprepared,

for your monumental Impact!

The Xylophone Stairs… Away From You

You Taught me

that I’m Wiser than you.

Be thankful

of every Goodbye

… the good ones

always Return

back to your Heart

… the others

are just memory landfill.

When you Conquer

being ‘ALONE’

no one will ever have

‘Power’ over you again.

The word “No”

is a honing missile

when used correctly

… is never ‘Rude’

no matter the complaints

… and has absolutely

no Karma attached to it.

I like her too

… she’s groWN inside

and (Finally) become

much more Real.