Dave Soyars
For Tom Verlaine
Tele-: span the distance, -Vision: observed gratefully, every note a ghostly image, then silence. It’s that silence that you learned to...
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Dave Soyars
- Nov 26, 2022
- 2 min
Untitled 1
"What could be simpler," she asks, "Than this." As she asks as if I built this grace that she is; Asks for all that I give uneasily. As...
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Dave Soyars
- Aug 20, 2022
- 1 min
In Between
Was I left here at this station to wait for your arrival? Because there’s not a life at stake it’s more than mere survival To stand alone...
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Dave Soyars
- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
There Goes The Neighborhood - Morning Jackhammers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeMYcr25dg (Dave) Didn’t see quite how it all began – but I dreamed of how it would end In the same...
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Dave Soyars
- Jul 31, 2021
- 1 min
LEAVE IT
I have no further interest in your schadenfreude I know I've always been someone you'd rather avoid So what made you think that I'd come...
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Dave Soyars
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
It’s About Time
Those were the times, she said, that you didn’t have to think about it much. Just get in the car and go. To the beach, To the woods, To...
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Dave Soyars
- May 6, 2021
- 2 min
The Last Heart Beating
Your friends are either gone or fleeing there’s no time left for disagreeing The time has come to freeze or fly, so clear your head or...
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Dave Soyars
- Mar 21, 2021
- 1 min
For International Poetry Day, one of mine
Still, I am living in your first impression. Sometimes, in the darkness, I pretend not. I feel I must welcome you this way, Or this other...
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Dave Soyars
- Feb 8, 2021
- 1 min
This One's For You
It's what is put before you that will matter in the end It's the gist of an idea that was stolen from a friend I know there must be...
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Dave Soyars
- Feb 6, 2021
- 1 min
Mirage
We have lived this kind of lie before And made it out to fight again You held on with such a certainty And the strength of several...
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Dave Soyars
- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Villanelle
I walk too slowly or too quickly I get confused, forget my destination My feet are sore, my voice is sickly So that you, my better, can’t...
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Dave Soyars
- Jan 24, 2021
- 1 min
...But Not Dead
What was said s'all I been told - is this what made my heart Turn cold? Sticks in minds better Than pressed flow'rs in PAGES I let go......
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