  | David Smylie
Single father, cook, cleaner, taxi driver, teacher and poet. David has been writing for four years and attends the Arcadia poetry sessions. He's had poems published in the Sunday Tribune and The Lonely Poets Guide to Belfast. He has read at Book finders Café during the Queens festival and had a poem etched on the Poetry In Motion glass mural. |
The Ghosts of Presents Past by David Smylie | A garish silver bracelet
That
I deliberated over for three days
Not knowing what she liked
But wanting to be impressingly extravagant
I cringe now at its size
And
How much of my disposable income
I spent.
She never wore it
Well not that I saw.
We broke up in the New Year
During the January sales.
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