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    A Fallen Prayer
    A Fallen Prayer
    A Fallen Prayer
    Ebook139 pages37 minutes

    A Fallen Prayer

    By Wayne Barrow

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    About this ebook

    This collection of poetry was written over a twenty year period.
    It is the authors wish that one day some of these poems will
    be accompanied by music and become songs, whether that be
    for himself or for others. These poems are not in any chronological
    order, so instead of this collection having a lifeline and a theme of
    ageing, it is more simply a collection of potential songs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJan 12, 2012
    ISBN9781469144733
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      Book preview

      A Fallen Prayer - Wayne Barrow

      Copyright © 2012 by Wayne Barrow.

      ISBN:          Softcover                                 978-1-4691-4472-6

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4691-4473-3

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      A Folktale Forward Press 2010

      A Grey New World Forward Press 2008

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

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      Contents

      Sacred Shrine

      Wishing Well

      A Folktale

      Eternally Passing

      A Fallen Prayer

      An Abyss Beheld

      September Fades So Sweetly

      This Side of Heaven

      For Always

      Breaking Your Heart

      Faded

      The Beauty in Loneliness

      The Astral World

      Beneath a Drifting Cloud

      These Lines for You

      Spirit of a Spider

      A Grey New World

      Before We Go

      His Days Are Fading

      February in Rome

      For Emily

      Our Sacred Child

      Helpless Desire

      Just a Year Gone

      Asylum

      Cracked Ballad

      A Song from the Ether

      Our Love’s Death Throes

      The Library Car Park

      Missed

      This Far in Time

      To Touch the Sky

      Awoken

      It’s Lonely When You’re Heartbroken

      Heartbreak Loves Us

      All for Nothing

      Falling Always

      Under Lock and Key

      I’m a Slave to the Ghost of You

      It’s Hard to Believe

      Invisible

      Farewell

      Bruised

      Heaven Alone

      From Us to This

      Aftermath

      There We Ever Be

      Castle

      Hit and Run

      Hall of Souls

      London

      Alone in a Crowd

      End of the Past

      Love to Burn

      Just Like Yesterday

      Ethereal Skin

      Something Like Love

      The Most Stupid

      We Drink

      Five Years Gone

      The Definitive Heartbreak

      Love

      Goodbye Forever

      Sad Smile

      The Blue of the Flame

      Suffer Heaven Always

      The Backdrop of Our Lives

      Ghost Child

      While Sorrow Sleeps

      Still

      Lonely Dreams

      My Inevitable Breakdown

      A Silent House

      Broken Down

      Grace

      From Afar

      A Time for Me

      Suffer the Kiss

      The Drunken Souls of Heaven

      Off the Beaten Track

      Misfortune

      Lifeline Frayed

      Your Wildest Dreams

      Release

      Even the Ghost Has Gone

      Goodbye

      Heartache Across the Skies

      Never

      Flames in Eden

      The Dispossessed

      Like a Ghost

      To Die in a Dream

      Keats’ Garden

      To the Horizon

      Daydream Sunset

      The Undertow

      Lost Mind

      Taken Too Soon

      Time for Living

      A Fading Disappointment

      The Vanishing

      The Ghost of Never

      Back to the Garden

      For Jayne, Emily, and Molly

      Sacred Shrine

      I exploit your absence

      Complicate your lies

      I celebrate the heartbreak

      With fireworks in the sky

      I disguise my feelings

      Fabricate each line

      I worship the loneliness

      Like a sacred shrine

      I explore the void

      Dislocate my mind

      I praise the nothingness

      That I can’t leave behind

      Wishing Well

      I don’t know if I’m cracking up

      Or I’m breaking down

      I’m hungry for you

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