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James Garratt – A life lived and recorded in ink since 1992

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Category: Poems and Writing 1994

Rainy Day Saving – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

still we kissed
and as i write this
your love is being missed
never to fade away
we have both so much to save
for a rainy day

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

Changeling – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

Changeling things are always changing sometimes the pain is too much i think of the times we had your touch, … More

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

You – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

things are not what they seem
i want you everyday
everyday i need you
without you i go insane
and i know you feel the same

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

Look At Me – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

at least i can like myself
and be happy,
when i look at me
i am no angel
but you cannot put me down
when i die
i will not be wearing –
the devils crown

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

Reasons – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

friends go out,
friends come home
all alone
without a thing to do
what a life we could lead

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

People of the Sky – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

tell us –
what it is about
why is the air so stale
twisting and turning –
in bed
cannot get those nightmares
out of our heads

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

All That We Know – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

All That We Know you have got do – whatever you can what ever you want even if – you … More

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

Friends – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

need my old friends
for time –
that never seems to end
need them for the dark day
when all the bad things
refuse to go away

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

Gin and Tonic – Written Monday 31st October 1994 (Aged 19)

she wants to be a superhero
super bionic
but she cannot get though –
the bars in her room
she is living a life on gin and tonic

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

Cinematic Childhood – Written Sunday 30th October 1994 (Aged 19)

and the hair that look so awful
cut by your mum,
using the same bowl –
that she would use for sunday’s trifle
the one served,
after the roast beef sunday roast

creative writing, poems, poetry, writer, writing

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