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Write Out Loud Outstanding Poems for December
December was a great month for poetry on WOL ��" very many voters confirming my thoughts and finding it difficult to choose just one poem. Nonetheless, one winner/ one poet did shine through ��" with two of her poems Rejection and Little Clock receiving 3 votes each. That winner is Rachel McGladdery, a very welcome and talented new addition to the WOL ranks. I was surprised that men didn’t als...
Tuesday 5th January 2010 3:12 pm
Repeat to Fade
Splendered, walking half in sleep,
and with red glasses cupping teeth,
I am a stranger -
photographed like a chimney mooring it's house with poison
steaming it's frames and running the charcoal down my spine.
These are my lines.
No fashion on a sleeve - I have worn it with plague,
smothering mad, and falling like a crippled ballerina's smile.
I ...
Wednesday 30th December 2009 5:53 pm
Lachrymose Nesting
I am an amputee, a vortex. A lampshade frayed
like the hems of the eunuch soldiers, the powdered women
who took war to work and made a holiday of men.
Retund rouge mistakes? Perhaps not. No. No I am not one of them.
But my limbs ache with stretching
and I sometimes wish to be a tail, a thick wardrobe
to curl his spine up into mine; a soft grey to douse
th...
Thursday 24th December 2009 2:32 am
Why So Blue, Sweetheart?
Sweetheart, you're black and blue
Sweetheart
From the things I've done to you
Now your dead arm swings loose
And your bruised eye won't open
Sweetheart
These things I've done to you
An evening among friends, descends
Now we're alone
Sweetheart
Now you start on me again
Buttons all pushed, again
You try to stand your ground
But I'll always shout louder
Sweetheart
Surely safer to just settle down?
Cower, out in the...
Sweetheart
From the things I've done to you
Now your dead arm swings loose
And your bruised eye won't open
Sweetheart
These things I've done to you
An evening among friends, descends
Now we're alone
Sweetheart
Now you start on me again
Buttons all pushed, again
You try to stand your ground
But I'll always shout louder
Sweetheart
Surely safer to just settle down?
Cower, out in the...
Tuesday 22nd December 2009 2:18 pm
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