He was handsome, young, an actor of promise
She was in wardrobe, and kitted him out
In a South Wales miner's outfit;
How green is our valley, boss?
Can two people look in a mirror
and want the other to be there looking back?
Should we move on with the flow of life
And be miles apart together?
Fame and ambition got in the way.
Empty, he found it all so empty
Hollywood celebrity. How they miss
Each other now.
But you conquered the acting world.
You were Antony, with an army behind you.
Yes, but I paid a heavy emotional price.
Liz Taylor! Come on, it doesn't get any better!
She was the love of his life.
The fires burned so strong, he took
to the drink like Dylan Thomas,
She was his Mabinogion. Well-read!
How grey is his hair now
How lined and furrowed his brow.
She hid a shudder, the man in the mirror,
So haunted, yet, the eyes anything but dead.
Can two people look in a mirror
and want the other to be there looking back?
Should we move on with the flow of life
And stay miles apart together?
WHISPERS OF THE HEART is artist and author J. Allen Wilson's second book of poetry.It can be autographed and shipped within 48 hours of order. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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