Paul Tristram

Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and flash fiction published in many publications around the world, he yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight, this too may pass, yet. His novel Crazy Like Emotion, short story collection Kicking Back Drunk 'Round The Candletree Graves and full length poetry collection The Dark Side Of British Poetry are published by Close To The Bone Publishing.

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► Paul Tristram's microchap & (selected) poems are available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

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No Diversion

Each time that life declares
“Breakdown, right here.”
and you reply,
coolly and calmly
“No, I will not.”
You earn something,
it’s invisible,
yet, your soul can taste it.

Use times of adversity
to keen the razors-edge
of your determined mind
… forge your intuition,
instincts and reactions
... stronger within
the flames of animosity.

Any fool can lash-out angry
… find your ‘fight’
and learn to control it…
that’s where your power is
… there is nothing to fear
so long as you are standing
upon solid ground
within your unbreakable self.

Simplicity

Contentment is
laying in an unkempt bed,
and both of you are aware
that the other one is smiling,
even though no words
have left your ‘loved-up’ lips
for quite some time.
And you want
to tell her this, in one big gush,
but instead, decide
to say it a little later.

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