Poetic verses flow through the
Warm blood pumping within my veins
They invade my mind with words that
Explode inside my scrambled brains.

Wild metaphors and similes
Free my thoughts from their deep, dark cage
All my private feelings laid bare
Upon the pallid, once blank page.

Poetic prose throbs in my heart
It’s fierce pulse falls from my nib
It contracts right through me just like
The breath that lays beneath my rib.

Words of beauty burn in my soul
They always set my pen alight
With language that makes me feel as
Free as a bird in fearless flight.

J.A McManus

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