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TINA PAPADOS
Outside, in
P OETRY COLLECTION
Copyright © Tina Papados 2014
Published in England by AKAKIA Publications, 2014
Tina Papados
OUTSIDE, IN
POETRY COLLECTION
ISBN: 978-1-909884-77-9
Copyright © Tina Papados 2014
CopyrightHouse.co.uk ID: 167852
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2014, London, UK
This poetry collection is dedicated
to Nigel Tattersfield; a teacher,
an artist, but most of all a wonderful friend
who has enhanced my artistic vision
through various literature texts.
Contents
Holly Wood Is Dead
The Other Woman
Amorette
Drugs
Liar
A Drinking Myth
Noir
Heroin
Dark Beauty
The Director
L’autre Femme
Moulin Rouge
Love art, not woman
Lady Death
The Living Dead (Birdsong)
Subconscious Souls
Seventeen
Vision and Voice
Holly Wood Is Dead
Cash comes quick when looks can kill
From raising hell on high heels
to that strange, fatal attraction
They were drawn to her.
Fire, blood and flames
She’s full of anger and rage
They prostituted their best actress
‘Seduce and destroy; each man’s cage.’
Drugs, guns and stiletto heels
Seeing herself from the world’s eyes
This two-dimensional existence
trapped within lenses and lies.
To be passive and trapped by man
is to reveal a violated woman
Fire without radiance,
flames without flow.
She fights to choose life
with her heroin heart
But it was too late, for time
to wait, and after all,
– I was only an invention of man.