Neon Light
Looks good in films
But in real life,
In this place it clings to you
Like a broken dream.
The neon beer light covers many sins
And many more failed lives.
In the corner sits a man,
Pondering if tonight
Will be his last.
Time for one more drink.
He won’t be the last to sit under this neon light.
Looking at his reflection
Reliving li...
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Wednesday 12th June 2013 11:04 am
Tags: poem,life,death,free verse,poetry
Neon Light
Time will tell.
The cigarette smoke hangs heavy in the air.
Looks good in films
But in real life,
In this place it clings to you
Like a broken dream.
The neon beer light covers many sins
And many more failed lives.
In the corner sits a man,
Pondering if tonight
Will be his last.
T...
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Friday 7th June 2013 11:25 am
Tags: death,life,poem,smoke,poetry,free verse,poetry
The Final Draft
Always seeking synthetic success, for
reasons no psychiatrist is unsure
of. Like Andromeda’s black hole, the core
is unstable, and breathes in media whores’
influences and agendas. Your IQ
is beyond atomic numbers, but you
are consumed like an ale in Bavaria.
Past Plutonium thoughts grow scarier,
whilst lost dreams entwine with absent lovers.
Sleeping with a...
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Sunday 2nd June 2013 10:01 pm
Tags: The Final Draft,George Stanworth,poetry
The Hitting Game
On the island’s south side
a solitary town fizzes
like overloaded circuitry
on dark, motherboard hills.
Across a sticky, smooth-tiled walkway
an amusement arcade spills
a test of sexiness based on how clammy your palm is
and the hitting game.
You spin in coins so they register
on sensors worn numb.
A padded stump protuberates.
The screen says HIT IT!...
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Sunday 2nd June 2013 11:06 am
Tags: Graham Clifford,poetry,holiday,game,arcade
WOW! TATTOO MY BUTT - MORE MAD POEMS AND VERSE BY NICK By Nick Armbrister
WOW! TATTOO MY BUTT -
MORE MAD POEMS AND VERSE BY NICK
By Nick Armbrister
Zoos Comet
Her empty lies mean more than all the halls of silence.
We've been shafted, double penetrations are the worst.
Are they excited at where they'll wake up after committing suicide?
No more shit.
Metallic grey sparks on metal elements reali...
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Friday 31st May 2013 5:36 pm
Tags: adult topics,nick armbrister,new poem book,poetry
It’s August... (by Mel)
Its August
When the wind blows
My hair, my smile off my face, my eyes full of sand
And my dress comes flying over my head,
I stand
In the middle of the race
Of dust coming from all over the place.
Its Misery
When the wind knocks
On the door, opens it without invitation
And enters without hesitation
My mood overf...
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Sunday 26th May 2013 11:44 pm
Tags: mel grobler,nick armbrister,poetry,joint book
Outside My Window
by Mike Morris
Rucksacks and waterproofs,
Pocket maps and walking boots.
Photos Facebooked like safari trophies.
After a Sunday abseiling down The Matterhorn,
they return to rustle up
a Mongolian Banquet or two.
"It's easy really as long as you've got the right ingredients."
Bedtime stories quell the quins
l...
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Friday 24th May 2013 7:51 pm
Tags: Poetry,humour
So Why do I Write
I am not a poet,
but I write a
lot of poetry.
So why do I write?
I write to
show my
point of view.
So why do I write?
Sometimes it's to
feel like I have
a small amount
of control.
So why do I write?
I write what
I feel.
So why do I write?
In hopes to
inspire even one
person, somewhere.
So why do I write?
To release the...
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Friday 24th May 2013 5:51 pm
Tags: I,why,poetry,write
My thoughts on Bolton's NEO:LIVE
Bolton is easier to get to from Manchester than Manchester folk might think, a...
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Thursday 23rd May 2013 11:27 am
Tags: guitar,poetry,open mic,paul blackburn,scott devon,bolton,neo,song,poem
The Poem Fails
It cannot render traction
Or the queer zero,
Rehearse location
Or mine gravity.
Panic & lapse
Immune to weak forces
Arise on threads of absence
In mechanical waves,
Muted by observation
& uncertain rules
In the chamber of bias.
An adumbration transpires.
Wanton longing. Dimension
Flattened & tamped....
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Monday 20th May 2013 3:51 pm
Tags: Physics,Poetry,Science
Always a Predator, Never the Prey
by Tim 'Preech' Humphreys-Jones
for a sixth of an hour,
before observing a cat
with almighty presence and power.
This feline affected me also,
making me an eternal predator.
Showered in blood, that of its victim’s,
Proud, purring, devouring torso.
It was proud of this blood,
as far as I understood anyway.
Like war paint.
A declaration.
I enjoy the kill.
This...
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Monday 20th May 2013 9:40 am
Tags: crime,poetry,poetry and prose,prose
Then the muse of good mood arrived ...
by Steve Regan
But a after large red wine with a pal in my local pub, Hell's Waiting Room, the muse of good spirits came and perched on my shoulder.
So, as it happened, I DID very much enjoy a most life-affirming BARDS poetry session in New Brighton last night....
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Tuesday 14th May 2013 4:52 pm
Tags: mates,pubs,football,poetry
Fast, effective action
by Joe Hakim
left unexplored. I’m not bored,
it’s something else: there’s too
much to do, things are vying
for concentration and attention
like never before, minor things
that can no longer be ignored,
pots to wash, a bath to be
scrubbed and a floor that needs
sweeping. And then there’s
decisions to be made about staying
awake or sleeping, o...
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Sunday 12th May 2013 5:50 pm
Tags: poetry
The Worst Tutor Ever (Fact!)
There once was a poet called Lee
who said that he always wrote three
lines in his limericks.
From my new free e-book 'Kidnapped By A Public House'
http://www.lulu.com/shop/george-stanworth/kidnapped-by-a-public-house/ebook/product-21007695.html...
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Sunday 12th May 2013 9:10 am
Tags: Tutor,Poetry,Kidnapped By A Public House,Satire
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
Call for Submissions for Murder of Krows 2
The submission guidelines are as follows:
1) All contributors should be resident in Cornwall.
2) Poetry of a serious nature is looked on more favourably than comic or light-hearted verse.
3) Please do not submit any more than two...
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Friday 10th May 2013 9:35 am
Tags: Poetry,call for submissions,Cornwall,Redruth,Camborne murder of Krows
Heals The Soul
"laughter is
the best
medicine."
But poetry
heals the
soul....
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Tuesday 30th April 2013 7:40 pm
Tags: soul,poetry,Laughter
Make a date with Pros and Coms
by Pros&Coms
Hope you can join us an entertaining evening of Comedy, Poetry and Live Music this Thursday at 8pm at Vinyl Bar, Lark Lane. Admission is FREE.
Acts Include:
Liverpool Acoustic Songwriter of the Year- Vanessa Murray
Talented Wordsmith – Reece Goldstrein
Hallam Fm’s Grand Comedy Howler 2012 Winner- Daniel Nicholas...
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Sunday 14th April 2013 11:25 pm
Tags: Liverpool,comedy,Poetry,Live Music,Thursday
Roses - NaPoWriMo Day 10
they smell like Le Pew.
But they still smell sweet
compared to you.
Roses are dead,
now you feel blue.
So take a shot neat,
and uncork the screw.
Roses are dead,
our hopes are too.
You were a cheat,
but I was too....
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Thursday 11th April 2013 5:26 pm
Tags: Pepe Le Pew,Pepe,Le Pew,Pew,Warners Brothers,Warner Bros,Warner,Bros,Brothers,Roses,Unlove,Poem,Poetry,Parody,Cheat,Vodka,Drink,Dead,NaPoWriMo
Ottava Riva - NaPoWriMo Day 8
Un altro tentativo di mia lingua paterna.
And though I beam with pride as I'm learning.
E anche se mi fascio con orgoglio, come sto imparando.
I'm aware that translated, the metre is wrong.
Sono consapevole del fatto che tradotto, lo strumento è sbagliato.
But this language pulsates to my yearning.
Ma questo linguaggio pulsa al mio des...
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Monday 8th April 2013 11:31 pm
Tags: Italy,Italian,Rome,Roman,Paternal,Father,Family,Love,Self-discovery,Discovery,Self-awareness,Awareness,Honesty,Growth,Inspiration,Inspirational,Metaphor,Poetry,Ottava Riva,Ottava Riva form,Iambic Pentametre,Metre,Verse,Lyric,Spoken Word,Bi-lingual,Multinational,Global,Poetic,Innovative,The Five Faces of Fulli,Ushiku Crisafulli,Crisafulli,NaPoWriMo
Beat to my own drum - NaPoWriMo Day 5
Saint Stephen's tale
It's Friday, sweets from Mrs Smith
Degeneration X and anarchy
Frankie's words: two tables, four chairs, suspension.
Discovered passing the buck, and thus passed it.
Stole the show with Twenty-one Questions, four dancers, and a singer.
First girlfriend changed everything, "You're young, she has baggage - get rid..." … did...
A pl...
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Sunday 7th April 2013 3:01 pm
Tags: Memory,Childhood,Syllables,NaPoWriMo,Poetry,Rap,R+B,Mordor,Sauron,LOTR,Lord of the Rings,Tolkien,Wrestling,WWE,WWF,HBK,DX,Degeneration X,School,Primary School,Secondary School,College,Hostel,Homelessness,Love,Loss,Depression,Anxiety,Suicide,Fights,Arguments,Fathers,Teachers,Mothers,Sisters,Friends,Truth,Rejoice,Rebirth,Phoenix,Light,Candle,Birthdays,Years,Tale,Stories,People,Memories
Our Sanctuary
by Chris Jam
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Saturday 23rd March 2013 3:03 pm
Tags: Spoken Word,poetry,speakeasy,manchester,ChriSJaM
The Twenty First of March
It’s a rainbow’s arch as such.
Equinox in springs
World Poetry Day brings.
It’s not an accidental event.
It gives this day a certain content.
A content to all those who can fly
And to all those who new things try.
A poetic word is an art.
It comes straight from the poet’s heart.
It gives a poetic word a chance
To sing, to draw and...
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Thursday 21st March 2013 8:47 pm
Tags: poetry
READ AL LABOUT IT
by Pros&Coms
Im very excited not only because its 2 DAYS TILL PROS & COMS but also we have hot water comedy's finest Paul Smith joining us. other guest include Stephen L Smith and Denis Joe
show starts at 8pm see you there. 88-90 lark lane, aigburth L17 8UU.
and its still free
Paul In action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akh2nmxxlGA...
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Tuesday 19th March 2013 5:03 pm
Tags: Comedy,Poetry,Thursday,Liverpool
The Gipsy Clouds
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My sweetheart who left me before a year
Today was very near
I saw her when I was drunk
In my cup
And also in my fear
I wished to tell her about the muddy way
Over there, at the crazy row of thoughts
Inside the dream of the sea
That got bored of futile boats
I tried to call her
But she couldn't hear
And the life reared to...
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 8:41 pm
Tags: Her-Story,beauty,gipcy,logic,love poetry,for ways to not fall in love,clouds and weather,clouds,after her,my life and hers,poetry,passion
My one day friend, Mark
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By: Ali Taha Alnobani
On Vernon street
Off Dale street
I sat near the sidewalk
At the edge
Like a broken bridge
People were passing
With their robot walking
Sea gulls felt my pain
Also did the rain
And my one day friend Mark
Who heard the voice of gulls in my heart
And my desire to start
His friendly e...
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 8:19 pm
Tags: mel my dear friend,old friends,be friends?,friends of the earth,friendship,life,love poems,love poetry,poetry,river,mercyside,Liverpool poetry,Liverpool,peace,mysterious,Mystery,fog,goodbyes,Julie Goodyear,goodbye
The Strawberry woman
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I know, strawberry has charm
But this time, it is a moon in spring temples
A Call beaming in the morning
And a mascot painted on god's arm
Your lips proclaim another speech
About angels ceremony for love
Which conduct there in paradise
Over fire, under ice
Near the golden beach
That nobody can reach
***
I know strawberry has light
Of wonderful colors
Mixed...
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 7:16 pm
Tags: beautiful,beauty,woman,Spoken Word poetry,love,paradise,poetry,sleeping beauty,charm,paint
Sofia's Masterpiece Story
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© 2011 by Ali Taha Alnobani
A lot of people I knew
Tried to cross long bridges
Sofia's masterpiece story
Ended among her princes
They wished her to describe the picture
But she forgot her eyes
Upon the bridges' fences
A rhyme made of life
Attacked her burned senses
I adored Sofia
But the t...
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Tuesday 5th March 2013 11:26 am
Tags: London,LOVE SONG,poetry,Love lost,sofia,maserpiece,way,love,rhyme,story,poet,loss,falling in love,Longing,love sonnet,romantic distance love dan hooks,loss of hair,love passion,love poems
Running Man
by Jamie Barton
against an enemy
he reaches for his gun
the barrel is empty
the chamber clicks echo
Staggered staggering speed
as they close in he thinks
again which way to run
the white sedated walls
scream fear, shrinking backwards
A thorn through a window
whisperingly draws blood
as it strokes his cheek
reminding the senses
of motive for movement
Silent, steady, r...
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Friday 1st March 2013 9:22 pm
Tags: Running,Man,Jamie,Barton,Poem,poetry,poems,poetic,enemy,echo,scream,whispering,perception,exit,exists
Gone.
by Paul
Your laughter, echoing inside my ear
Why damnit! have you stayed in my minds eye
Go away, you've gone, you are still here. Why?
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Friday 1st March 2013 2:31 pm
Tags: love poem,love,missing,poetry
Epiphany
by Jamie Barton
wood, waiting for flesh.
Crunching its way through shadow.
Candle wax on skin
setting hard in its way.
A flick of the wrist
and the ink scratch stains.
Trying to find a way
to communicate with vision.
Spew out, eat up, digest, reset.
Calculating the way with mind
set to epiphany....
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Friday 1st March 2013 12:31 am
Tags: Epiphany,jamie,barton,poetry,poem,poetic,worm,flesh,shadow,communicate,reset
Pale Membrane
by Jamie Barton
The air from gestures, the pain and wicked eyes flicker.
The soft secretion of lingering sadness shelters like a veil.
Not haunted though, not lost to anything.
A door left open for a breeze to walk in.
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Friday 1st March 2013 12:27 am
Tags: Pale,membrane,Jamie,Barton,poetry,poem,sadness,veil,haunted,door,poetic
Drastic Measure
by Nick Clifton
When lack in youth brings on a yearn to take whatever’s there.
‘Tis not the care that is not there but strength of will to cope,
No lack of brain or sense of right, nor will to grab false hope.
Across your world it lays in wait without much chance to pounce,
Until one day it rears its head and vengeance d...
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Tuesday 26th February 2013 4:26 pm
Tags: poetry
Polishing a Turd
by Jamie Barton
It conjures up all sorts of images
Brown, sticky and smelly vestiges
But can you polish a turd
I think you can, it is not absurd
To think you can make something better
To think you can improve the design
To think you can create something new
From something which reminds you of poo
It took a long while for me to decide
Which way I was going, what...
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 9:08 am
Tags: Polishing,a,turd,poem,poetry,epiphany
Quieter
by Jamie Barton
I remember the sad strangeness that could not forge
The words wretched wonder would wrench
The memory is stainless, sturdy, simple, a symbol
Beholden that it is now buried
but I needed that melancholy
And the knowledge I knew, or thought I knew
Fleshy words without force
Buried in a cemetery in ceremony
The dirt descended on that mahogany
And words woul...
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 1:18 am
Tags: quieter,poem,poetry
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
In Cars
I make the shapes he makes –
one-handing the steering wheel
as if grasping some mane,
I cup the gear stick bulb
like it's a brandy bowl
and coast to junctions
clutch disengaged
scared as sharks to stop,
though on open road
I’ll box in better cars than mine,
a sudden stickler for the limit
I slap down and squeeze your knee
celebrating...
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Saturday 9th February 2013 9:39 am
Tags: graham clifford,www.grahamclifford.co.uk,poetry,contemporary poetry,gender,history,Swindon
A Crying Shame
by Ludo
sex and guilt, beauty and modesty; molest
pitted in the stomach like acid,
spat swallowed pity, feeding starvation, an unquenchable famish, unsensibly sore
malnourished habits die hard, and lonely, resentfully
twisting and turning and diving, deprived
Lies for eyes, for ears and the nose; twitch
flies on the flesh of festering fetishes; groan
acts...
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Friday 25th January 2013 5:48 pm
Tags: Humanity,Manchester,Poetry,Shame,Sexuality,Nature
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
In Soviet Russia...
even the punchline is backwards.
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Thursday 17th January 2013 2:44 pm
Tags: In Soviet Russia,Soviet Russia,In Soviet Russia gag,In Soviet Russia joke,jokes,joke,joking,laughter,humor,one liner,poetry,witty,silly,funny
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
Choices
`
When a poet takes up arms
their quill is orphaned quick
though the pen is mightier
the sword some bards will pick
however just the cause may be
forsake their weapon true
to lose what makes them free
sad the day...
Saturday 12th January 2013 1:54 pm
Tags: Poet,poetry,Rimbaud,vangogh,choice,choices,weapon,poetics
That's so gay
our ancestors thought for,
the cracking of the great enigma.
Futile hopes soaked in apple-core tears
crashing like a faulty application.
Remember, that's so gay.
When you websling like Spidey
page to page.
From songs on YouTube,
to memes about Derp...
remember his hurt.
Remember, that's so gay.
If literature excites you,
if language d...
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Thursday 10th January 2013 8:57 pm
Tags: LGBT History Month,Alan Turing,John Amaechi,Neil Patrick Harris,Russell T Davies,John Barrowman,Doctor Who,Torchwood,How I Met Your Mother,Literature,Theatre,Poetry,Education,Schools,Community,Acceptance
my new poem book co written with Mel Grobler
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/the-rantings-of-a-damaged-mind/13556239
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-rantings-of-a-damaged-mind/13418882 normal book
Heartbreak (by Mel)
Why, why are you doing
This to...
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Monday 7th January 2013 8:40 pm
Tags: nick armbrister,mel grobler,poetry,joint project,writing,new 2013 book
Goodness Gracious - a video poem by Ged Thompson
by Ged Thompson/ Liverpool Poet
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Sunday 6th January 2013 1:49 am
Tags: Snobbery,Poetry,Liverpool poetry,fuck you!
Life is a Cuppa
Up to a point
pliant leaves will seep
into all its waters
until the cup overflows
so much as to stain
the meticulously starched table linen.
Then we shall face with reckoning
its true substance!
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Please make your response or comment on my profile page. Thank you....
Wednesday 2nd January 2013 11:05 pm
Tags: poem,excalibard,crypticbard,kesner,philosophy,life,existence,cuppa,cup,tea,poetry
All The Angles
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All the angles, they keep changing too many times,
that to look at the mirror I see no reflection,
as the world is spinning around me,
and after all this, I feel dizzy.
I grasp no hold of wha...
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Wednesday 2nd January 2013 3:16 pm
Tags: all the angles,urban shrines,youth project,poetry,poem,reflections,self
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