At the Beat of a Drum
by Simon Austin
The world changed,
Blamed on many,
Caused by few.
At the still of a heart,
The world stopped,
Spun by many,
Ceased by two.
At the loss of a soul,
The world cried,
Tears of many,
All for you.
Dedicated to the family and memory of Drummer Lee Rigby, born July 1987, senslessly taken from the world, 22nd May 2013...
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Friday 24th May 2013 11:03 pm
Tags: poem,death,loss,sadness,soldier
Karma Kill
I wanna see 2 jet fighters go air to air.
Trying to kill each other.
Full range of weapons.
Beyond visual range.
Dodge the missile volley.
Short range heat seekers.
Get past that.
Guns baby...
Knife fight in a fucking phone box.
Helmet mounted sights, off bore sight missiles.
Death...
of pilot and jet.
Top gun would be over in seconds.
No1 wants to try it....
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Friday 24th May 2013 9:41 pm
Tags: ultimate dog fight,jet fighters,missiles,guns,war,sky,pilots,death
Messerschmitt Death Machine
Yankee terror bombers fly overhead to bomb our cities and our military targets.
Stop them! Quick, into our Messerschmitt 109G’s.
Take off; rise up to do battle with the infidels armed with their fifty calibre super heavy machine guns....
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Thursday 23rd May 2013 11:09 pm
Tags: america,ww2,weapons,warplane,luftwaffe,nazi pilots,guns,cannon,death
Peter Goes West
Now that you are gone,
The leaf would've fallen anyway
The bird would've flown,
Taking talisman, tarot deck
And Ayn Rand tome,
On a journey to far West
Your spiritual home.
Land of parking lots and desert malls,
Skateboards on the board walks,
Beggars in the bleachers
watching volleyball....
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Friday 17th May 2013 5:56 pm
Tags: Loss,Memory,death
OLD HAMMER DIVINE
My anxiety is like an ambush predator.
WHAM! I’m fucked...
...fight back!
It’s fucked.
Would you manage a year in my head?
Would you?
Could you?
Should you?
I think you should...
...if you’re man enough then inbox me.
Into my head you shall go...
A mirror image of my town.
Shame it’s not Berlin...
...under Lancaster air attack....
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Friday 10th May 2013 11:15 pm
Tags: limbo,death,town,life,limbo,people,mind
Animals
by Simon Austin
Pitiful the morsels for the feeding of the rats,
Dished out unemotionally by vicious little cats,
Like vermin, out the rats they come and scurry back to hide,
Whilst all the while the fat cats feast voraciously outside.
The Persecuted
In the darkest corners of the high walled city streets,
The rank and rotten souls of human waste claw to compete,
Shuffling through the b...
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Friday 10th May 2013 4:17 pm
Tags: animals,holocaust,death,persecution,racism,hate,greed,poem
Weird Words a new spoken words night
by Freda Davis
The rain came down but words held sway within a tight packed room.
They came from Leeds and Lancashire, from Cleckheaton and Hudd.
They raised their arms and voices too and spoke of death and blood.
And local wordsmiths said their piece. What rants and hymns we heard
when Genevieve her coven called to utter Weird Words...
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Friday 10th May 2013 10:48 am
Tags: death,blood,gig,poetry,words,spoken word
Danse Macabre (The Dance of Death)
by Simon Austin
Against the moonlight, wailing sirens
Beckon those that have succumb
To fill your guttered lines with souls.
Blistered, bloated, wandering lost
Through invalid eyes – flies feast
On stale skin, as deep within
The eruptions pulse to a deathly drum.
One by one they fall in line
Upon swarming sewer drains,
Stacked, like broken branches...
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Wednesday 1st May 2013 11:15 am
Tags: religion,doctor,disease,death,plague,poem
Unto the Somme
by Simon Austin
Behind failing lines,
These curtains of shrapnel and sharp steel
Conceal my misery,
So seamlessly, absently
I go on, numb, alone,
For sensation no longer blesses me.
Relentlessly, I force back my fear,
The absent tears never reach my cheeks
And thick blankets of earth and sand
Choke my cries, damp, pitiful.
I fall to the boards clotted with death
As my breath...
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Saturday 27th April 2013 12:32 pm
Tags: soldier,battle,conflict,world war I,war,death,poem
warRANT
by Ian Whiteley
the ack-ack-ack
of sobbing children
a tear
for every bullet
the roll of pressure
heal to toe
erasing limbs
flies swarming on open wounds
picking at the scabs
of wounded families
the searing pain
of widows and orphans
scorched flesh
hurt is local currency
guns from foreign currency
all around the colour red
lies in sticky
coagulating puddles
a glassy eyed gu...
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Friday 19th April 2013 1:05 pm
Tags: destruction,war zone,horror,death,war,war child,casualties
MQ-9
by Paul Sands
the intention couldn't be clearer
while the tattooed roads wear the organic stains
as footholds for a memory of fallen phosphor rain
yet more caustic the harvest we reap
from the drone-grown, crone wept bones
even as the stone groves grow over the dead hope of
the pebble eyed children in their dreamless sleep
suffer the children our selfis...
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Tuesday 16th April 2013 9:59 pm
Tags: greed,death,terror
Italia with utube vid link of my gullivers headline gig
Italia
Dream of a nation, they built a big airship for Arctic exploration. Things went so well, taking a plethora of readings and photographs till a head wind sprung up. They used most of the fuel battling the wind. Serious technical trouble followed. This would go downhill, fast.
A crash!
Ripping fabric, torn envelope. Smashed control cabin f...
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Sunday 14th April 2013 3:13 pm
Tags: italia airship,exploration,italy,arctic,crash,death,disaster,mystery
Ripples of Detriment
by Ged Thompson/ Liverpool Poet
I will not mourn your passing, or for that, rejoice your death
As you embark upon the journey that begins with your last breath
Perhaps you thought it proper and in sound mind made your choices
Utilitarian motives? Deafend you? To the sound of poorer voices?
The miners, plebs and working class who became collateral damage
The co...
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Saturday 13th April 2013 2:28 am
Tags: respect,politics,Thatcher,death
For Absent Friends
Somewhere in between,
The waking and the dream,
I can feel you close to me.
Just before times hands,
Reshape the desert sands,
I can feel you reach for me.
In the blink of tear stained eyes,
Watching, weary, to the skies,
I can hear you call to me.
In the breaking of the dawn,
In the dew upon the lawn,
I can...
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Sunday 7th April 2013 7:17 pm
Tags: Loss,love,death,suicide,missing,tears,pain,lonely,alone
Untitled
by Simon Austin
Its plaque and pickled paint are weathered long.
The buckled slats curl flecks on harshest winter's freeze.
Where age defies intent to which it did belong.
As passers-by whom in their daily cues entrenched,
They, wrapped in woolen shields, look blindly on
And notice not the broken petals on the breeze,
Nor sense the echo of a parte...
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Tuesday 26th March 2013 11:51 am
Tags: poem,Memorial,loss,death,sadness,soul,love
Humanity Lost
by Simon Austin
And fall to my knees.
The earth is cold tonight, my sight
Is sorrowed as I place my hands on its frozen surface,
No furnace to warm me, but bereft.
Here, on the borrowed hour
Of my death.
The frost seeping through my clothes
Chills my bones, I’m lost here, alone.
The precipice in front of me is wide, and deep
But full. I keep my head dipped,
Knowing they wa...
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Thursday 21st March 2013 9:59 pm
Tags: poem,war,death,holocaust,humanity,fear,hate,racism
From Virginia
by Ian Whiteley
He sat and watched them
draw from pipes of bone and clay,
eyes closed in peaceful
meditation. Cast in clouds
of bittersweet transcendence.
I sat and watched him
turn into a hollow man,
wrapped in shrouds of grey.
His constant, shuddering, barks
cough your epitaph, Raleigh....
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Wednesday 13th March 2013 10:24 am
Tags: walter raleigh,smoking,death,cigarettes,virginia,native americans,epitaph
Waves (A Final Letter Home)
by Simon Austin
As midnight skies perform the second act,
Where black and blue so effortlessly meet
And force the waters cold around my back.
I feel the sand bequeath my buried toes;
To let the grit defy my sodden skin
And as the open door to my soul grows
I let the frothy waters trickle in.
The moonbeams push my head into a daze
And buckle up...
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Tuesday 5th March 2013 10:57 am
Tags: soul,ocean,sea,soldier,love,loss,poem,war,death
Decay
by Jamie Barton
It is almost a certainty in fact
But darkness with its spring heels waits alone
In a recess seldom visited, we go there in shade
Curtained we go there and raise suspicion
We go when there is blood to sacrifice
We come back when there is left only bone
Like the needless prayers of a mother
We disappear in to the warm night gone
And saturate t...
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 1:15 am
Tags: Poem,poetry,decay,death,sonnet,dark
Amy
by Simon Austin
Her face, pressed into the pillow
Drained black tears onto white linen.
Her fight had been lost; the long battle had ravaged her
And her iconic war paint scrawled ironic defeat in tracks
Down her pale skin onto paler sheets.
A motionless husk; as she lays there;
Her raven hair, unravelled from familiarity,
Fall's delicately on her back,...
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Friday 15th February 2013 2:27 pm
Tags: poem,celebrity,fame,london,loneliness,alcoholic,addiction,death
Sniper
by Simon Austin
Just the loud crack of a distant whip, the echo
Bouncing through the crumbling streets and fetid alleyways,
Painted with the stench of unintentional sacrifices
And scorched by the Middle Eastern sun.
He can see me, this one, even now,
Staring down the lens like a wayward sailor scanning distant rocks for Sirens,
Tempting him to death.
He’s watching me...
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Sunday 27th January 2013 11:59 am
Tags: poem,tragedy,youth,death,warfare,war
Sonnet on Death
by Irina
Sonnet on Death
Demons clutch at your rib-cage ladder
Grasping the arteries, choking your veins
Your bones are now fragile and ready to shatter
Oh dear, you're looking quite pale.
Your bloodless skin is as thin as paper
With cavities where worms slither in.
A struggling heart still resisting the Taker
Until the last light of y...
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Friday 25th January 2013 7:53 pm
Tags: Death,Felicien Rops,L'Agonie,Ekphrasis,sonnet,necrophilia
Oh Darkness, Sweet Darkness
by Simon Austin
I saved her wretched soul, like the others,
I drew the blood through clotted veins
And lay her down upon the blackness.
I cleaved the meats from her ivory.
He knelt with me and watched her filth, her poison
Pour through the cobbled streets
Into welcoming drains.
Plucked from the cadaver,
Her vessels of virility are no more;
The erroneous allocation o...
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Sunday 20th January 2013 12:25 pm
Tags: Ripper,London,Murder,Death,Darkness,killer,poem,poetry
Mortality
by Simon Austin
The moon, full and bright
Casts his dark shadow onto an icy wall.
A familiar silhouette, unmistakable,
Pressed against the pane.
The cold melts his breath into feathery diamonds
Running in thin veins down the thick glass.
His face, hidden and veiled in black
Glances my way and nods;
I nod back
Acceptingly. Suddenly,
The glass no longer divides,...
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Monday 14th January 2013 4:43 pm
Tags: poetry,Death,mortality,humanity,loss,lost,fear,passing,poem,reaper
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