DREAMS OF FLYING
what happened to my dreams of flying?
there's no denying they were real enough.
In that sleeping realm
I passed the elm
and valley bound on wingless flight
my silence buoyed me up
to look down on the buttercup,
and as I willed it
landed with a maiden sigh
as levitating
the world passed by.
Of late my dreams go plodding on
no more magic to thrill my soul -
...Saturday 31st October 2015 8:52 pm
Also by ray pool:
GOOD LUCK | TIME MISSPENT | IN THE SUPERMARKET | IT'S HARD TO FIND LOVE | WHERE I LIVE | (untitled) | LAMENT FOR CAFE ROUGE | PICKING UP THINGS | OLD SETH | CHALK PIT | A MINER'S RETURN HOME | TREES | RAGAMUFFIN | CRY OUT LOUD | CAGES | I FELL THROUGH MY SOFA | ON THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN TRAIL | THEY LAUGH IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES | INCUBUS | CD OF THE WEEK | LLECHWYDD SLATE MINE | SWEEPING THE YARD | MISSISSIPI MUD PIE | ON THE MILLPOND BRIDGE | THE LONELY DRINKER |boo
Go back to sleep honey
No need for those tears
Daddy will make certain
To cast away your fears
You see
There’s no such thing as monsters
No ghosts to terrorise
So lie back down and try to sleep
Just close those pretty eyes
You see
If we can chop up mummy
And hide her in the shed
I’m sure that we can deal
With the thing under the bed
Saturday 31st October 2015 8:29 pm
Also by Stuart Buck:
Spice | emma #2 | emma | brine | cartography | 11 | sherlock | sandy | OH IMPERIOUS MAMMON | discharge | noir | needle flight blindness | syrup | autumnal haiku | car wreck(ing ball) | blast off | marmalade | Neruda | Poetry and Mental Health | the split | for want of a red wheelbarrow | spaghetti junction (rewrite) | porcelain | Psalm 1 | Britain First | Cryptic Crossword 26696 | Junk | garibaldi | Fed | Luke 10:25 |Remember Me
On this
Day
You will
Remember
Me
Look
At my
Lovely
Poppy
It's
Diecast
And it’s
Glossy
Looking
Fine and
Dandy
On my
Lapel
No thanks
I don’t
Want to see
Yours
Gosh do you
Still Wear
Paper?
Not interested
Unless it
Concerns me?
Now
Where
Were we?
Oh yes
We were
Talking
About
...Saturday 31st October 2015 7:57 pm
Haiku Inspired By Bob Ross
Saturday 31st October 2015 5:31 pm
Also by Shirley Smothers:
Wake up Midas | The Price |Exposure
All the pretence of innocence
The rules that one invents
Laws that must be seen to be
Beyond the reach of devilry
Those in power can circumvent
As they like, with full intent
Legal eagles can but try
To keep your vision from the lie
All in all I wonder when
We truly will have freedom again
Twisted knots of red tape can
Imprison every once free man
Number six once held the key
...
Saturday 31st October 2015 11:31 am
Also by Dave Dunn:
The Ghost That Flitters |The shape of the pine table
Nostrils saviour the smell of pine
turn, cut, smoothen out
craft of a hand steady
skill is detail
a bowl
fruit
table
Inanimate
collecting dust
thirty years a tree
thirty years for me
rotten sweet fruit
mouldy apple
soft plum
sandpaper
return to wood
senses are mine
the faint smell of pine
polish with antique wax
put it on the big brown tab...
Saturday 31st October 2015 8:16 am
Also by PatricioLG:
Have you ever? | Innocent smiles | The Poet | The Sculptor | Trials and tribulations of a narcissist | Death of a butterfly | Walks with me | A chancing exchange | Howling at the moon | Machines that go to war | The Carpenters Arms |Uber Alles.
UBER ALLES
Once proud Deutschland had lost all it`s bloom,
Bound for an old-aged tomb,
When along the thin lanes
Just like blood along veins
Transfused piles of young willys and wombs.
Friday 30th October 2015 10:11 pm
Also by Harry O`N eill:
Resisting a beginning | High rise city centre fairy tale | After the consultation | Bon Voyage |Always Down The Front
There’s always one isn’t there
Slopping beer all over his shoes
He’s jostling for position
Hand secure upon the barrier
But his shoulders aren’t quite through
Because a fangirl, already half cut
Is hogging space for two
Arms are sleeves of coloured ink
Hair is blonde and striped in pink
Boobs are large and cupped in lace…
He might try conversation
“I love your tats; the skull, the eagle
...
Friday 30th October 2015 9:05 pm
Also by Anna Ghislena:
The Cucumber Plot | The Launch |Humans path
The world arround left me shattered into pieces
The human is a cruel species
Keeping things up until they break down on you
If you wanna enter heaven take your place in the queue
Pick up whats left from this broken world
No reason to stay on the ground,curled
You have the choice, heaven or hell
Take the path of the sins, you'll see that you'll do well
The queue here moves much faster
An...
Friday 30th October 2015 5:02 pm
Also by fries luca:
Fall | Asleep in the concious body | A water drop in the ocean | A german Kiss | How we feel | Red Satin |The pitifulness of the pityful
In a bustling open market
Before sunset
In buyers
And sellers heart
Seeking a place
An emaciated old beggar
With a weather-worn face
Was pitifully collecting alms
Putting on tattered clothes.
Soon in a tear-jerking
And heart-wrenching manner
A poor blind boy
Playing a flute
Singing a song strong
Titillating everyone's heart
Invoked sympathy with art
"It was
On a cursed morn
...
Friday 30th October 2015 10:52 am
Also by Alem Hailu G/Kristos:
An ape's bald butts | I can't help to ask | An overriding national feeling | Like a cigarette | To hide a bloodstined hand | What shall I be ? |Bring our stories to a close
In disbelief, he bears this burden,
Thinking all is well.
The weight came crashing down on him
So hard he almost fell.
With a heart and mind so weak, he cried,
"What have I left to do?"
Answers sought for many years,
Right here inside of you.
He broke down, hurt and feeling lost,
He could not let that go.
The pain he's held for all this time,
The world would never know.
And so he...
Friday 30th October 2015 8:19 am
Also by Eric Berard:
Sometimes I stop and think to myself | Before you fall apart. | You can keep my Heart, just go. | Be as water flows | Giving light to those who need a brighter day. | He'd never lose his faith in them |Hollow
Hollow screams in hollow dreams,
of hollow mind and soul.
hollow gasps and hollow sighs,
in hollow eyes lined with Kohl.
hollow days turn into hollow nights,
hollow pleas trying to put up a fight.
hollow talks and silences,
by the hollow candle flame.
hollow vows and promises,
and this hollow game of blame.
Friday 30th October 2015 7:26 am
All of our Fathers are dead
You've drunk too much,
don't have another.
You smoke too much,
don't swear at your Mother.
For a hand he raised a glass instead,
now all of our Fathers are dead.
Shave with the grain,
puff your cheeks out like this.
Don't ask what that machine is
When we go for a piss
For a hand he raised his voice instead
Now all of our Fathers are dead
Bes...
Thursday 29th October 2015 8:49 pm
The Bravest Of The Brave
Our service men and women , the bravest of the brave . They thought about all others , they hope the world will change . There commitment dedication , there regret there is none . There sacrifice for others , to them they come as one . They carry on fighting , with there heads held high . With commitment only one regret , people have to die . With these people who are committed , there bravery s...
Thursday 29th October 2015 3:45 pm
Also by Wendy Higson:
No Means No | Be Loved |Writers Block -- 07/2015
Needing inspiration
Having none
Words not coming
All dried up
And numb
Give me a taste
Just a nibble
Please a crumb!
Needing inspiration
But alas I have none
Thursday 29th October 2015 2:10 am
Also by Amanda:
Daydreams -- 07/2015 | Crush -- 07/2015 | Here... | Go Away | Waking Up | Guarded Walls | Untold Truth | Work Day | My Inspiration: My Daughter | As I Continue |Fucking Poetry
Poetry
Well who knows what it is
It seems to me
It isn't merely making a statement
And then retreating
I mean thats just lighting a firework
Isn't it?
Any way if I am wrong
The greatest line ever written
Must be
Fuck Off!
Which is not at all poetic
Wednesday 28th October 2015 9:46 pm
A Clever Man
(For 'man' please understand 'person' which does not scan well.)
The most unclever thing
A clever man can do
Is to think himself
More clever than another man.
But it defies even the concept of 'clever'
To broadcast it.
rolling some thoughts around yesterday
while hanging out clothes
thinking of many things
as my fingers clipped pegs
CBT/Octo...
Wednesday 28th October 2015 7:28 pm
Also by Cynthia Buell Thomas:
The Argument | In the stillness of |OLD SEPP (PART 2)
The scandal of FIFA has just become deeper
We knew that Sepp’s hands were not clean
Now Sepp has confided he’d already decided
The World Cup of 2018.
We knew FIFA’s funding could not have been slushier
As bent as the old nine-bob note
Cos Blatter’s decision to give it to Russia
Was taken before members’ vote.
Old Sepp’s not yet gone
And his tenure passed o...
Wednesday 28th October 2015 7:24 pm
Also by John Coopey:
VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE | THE DYSON AIRBLADE | SCARBADOS | FUCK THE NHS! | THOSE HOTTIES FROM THE GDR | WE-WON-THE-WAR-IN-1954 | 84-0 |The Ghost of Mayfield Station
Calling out the same name
Over and over
The sound varies constantly
Before cutting out
Like a chewed up tape
Echoing with a sadness
Bordering on the verge
Of a panic
Almost like they are
Pleading for forgiveness
Dismembered
In a broken sadness
Skipping through
All kinds of turmoil
Of a love clearly died
Left on the platform
No matter
Whether cold or warm
Bordere...
Wednesday 28th October 2015 5:22 pm
Also by Andy N:
Late night bus from Bolton |Naomi Hefter - Treatment.
A brain that’s been tapped and tinkered is suddenly transformed.
A soul that’s been prodded and pulled is carefully put back in its place.
Thoughts have been dusted and polished and put away in their boxes.
A gut that been untangled, unknotted, instead now tied in a bow.
Then the cogs in the wheel turn again.
A scar to the brain has split.
The crack in its box is on dis...
Wednesday 28th October 2015 2:38 pm
Waiting on a locksmith
brittle 'no' like a teather,
riotous blood and dead weather,
steam and cog alike in Congress,
emulations of embrace, flipped sideways,
handshakes of covered mouths and scared, streaking mascara:
dyed sensuous, brimming with ruin and ruse.
regret: 'baby won't you be my muse?'
cold, deep as dark
spreading, sprawling climax
in a wardrobe of betrayed memories
stin...
Wednesday 28th October 2015 2:02 am
Also by Zach Dafoe:
facebook feverbrush (10/25/2015) -- found | Sick's Last Entry (10/21/2015) | to drown (10/10/2015) | waxwood prayer (10/04/2015) | heather (10/04/2015) | sequels to helena (10/04/2015) |The Drum
The Drum
Where do they go to,
When silence deafens,
Do the multitudes swallow them
As if, like us, we are all,
Zombies of a decaying paradise?
To see him sit there silent,
Makes notions of absurdity,
And yet, many adorn tiring attire -
And dust and,
It is African,
Not meant for sand to gather
But be polished from its form
And tha...
Tuesday 27th October 2015 8:24 pm
Also by Noetic-fret!:
Soon Be Free Old Man | A Pint of Bitter, A Pint of Mixed, And Some Change for the Pool Machine Please! | An Evolution of Attitude |Beware! The Man Who Holds The Monkey's Paw
Beware! The Man Who Holds The Monkey’s Paw
The wolf is at the door,
dragging your hungry children
across the cobbles of Victorian conditions,
their ribs rat-a-tat-tatting
like a wooden washboard.
In the clinging northern mist
ghosts drift across the streets
before settling into doorways
where no one sees them.
A creature lurches into view,
its frame a mas...
Tuesday 27th October 2015 7:52 pm
Also by Ian Whiteley:
We Are The Dead | Don't Pay The Poets |Dominant Scrawling
Clog clog clogging up, dominant scrawling,
tongues foreshortened every morning;
careless fingers play with qwerty,
shirking beauty, empty
endless asphalt roads to
wag wag wagging tales of water;
heartsink warning, minds in mourning,
words unversed in seventeen lines;
crumbled poesy, boundless
flimsy strin...
Tuesday 27th October 2015 1:04 pm
Also by Laura Taylor:
Budgetary Democide |Fear
It was January
She let the freezing ocean cover her naked spirit
Its bottomless darkness could potentially kill her
Still she knew that it was only by facing death
that she would discover life.
ida
Monday 26th October 2015 4:39 pm
MAUREEN O'HARA
Goodbye, you flame haired colleen,
Pure gold on the silver screen
From those marvellous days
Of the long-ago haze
In those old picture houses we've been.
Beauty and fire combined,
A brave spirit unconfined.
Your favoured film swain
Was always "Duke" Wayne,
And no fan (or man) seemed to mind.
God bless for the memories, Maureen,
And the hours of pleasure w...
Monday 26th October 2015 4:02 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
HANDS OFF CLOCKS! | CLIMATE CHANGE (a peep into the past) | MAKING HAY FOR TODAY | LUST | YESTERDAY ONCE MORE - a re-post | CONTENT AND FORM | JULIE ANDREWS IS EIGHTY TODAY |Fancy That!
Fancy That!
'Sue fancies Bill.
Bill fancies Tim.
Tim fancies Jane.
Jane fancies Jim.
Jim fancies Kate.
Kate fancies Anne.
Anne fancies Pete,
and Pete fancies Sam.
Sam fancies Rob,
but who fancies you?'
'Mum, I don't care,
while I'm having a poo!'
Would you like the chance to win a £10 Amazon Gift Voucher?If so, then enter an original short funny poem of 12 lines or less by mid...
Sunday 25th October 2015 11:44 am
Also by George Stanworth:
Misled |Zen and the art of deletion
What does it take
To hit that index finger
Press Enter
Delete
Out of my life
But still in circuit
Stalking your profile
Social media style
I keep tabs on your likes
Your comments, your little world
Exposed
As I watch you
And watch you
And watch you
In a Zen like state of
Non caring
Sunday 25th October 2015 7:45 am
Agony
My heart yearns, I know too well.
My mind races, my own little hell.
My feelings scream, writhe in turmoil.
My breath quickens, this mortal coil.
Pain for pain, and breath for breath,
Love for love, and death for death,
Take me now, I care no more
I do not love, I now abhor.
I stand forgotten, yet I still stand.
The taste for life, disgusting and bland.
I find no joy, except the knif...
Saturday 24th October 2015 12:50 am
Also by R. L. Fitzpatrick:
Stop worrying |A Song For Autumn
A Song For Autumn.
There’s a wildness abounding in Autumn,
Not found in the burgeoning spring,
The colours are richer and rounded,
The wind has a new song to sing.
It’s as though life was seeking redemption,
For the pleasures enjoyed in the past,
Coming home from the longest of journeys,
To some rest and contentment at last.
I suppose life’s reflected by s...
Friday 23rd October 2015 6:50 pm
It's October
It’s October
Oh it’s October!!
The edge of summer!!
Away go the scorching heat,
We can all heave a sigh of relief!!
A month of festival and carnivals,
A time to fortify the bond with our family and pals.
Dusherra, diwali and Navratri,
Are reasons to break Free from life’s monotony?
So go get your best attire,
Let us spread happiness like wild fire,
Make this season...
Friday 23rd October 2015 4:17 pm
Nothing but Regrets
My hands reached out, splayed and up towards the sky.
Who would have though, I would be left here to die?
I took a giant leap, and so big it was,
I was left falling to the grass.
Mud, dirt, stones, I tasted everywhere.
My dignity, pride and beauty left me bare.
Burning with rage and anger,
I beat myself to a blunder.
It was all on me, just me, only me.
The choice I made...
Friday 23rd October 2015 6:08 am
Hypothetically speaking
What if I told you
exactly how I felt inside
Spoke about emotions
I've always tried to hide
Made gestures
or simple little hints
To put your attention on a level
that it has never ever seen
Led you to my heart
without touching you physically
but speaking to you mentally
and stimulating you spiritually
How would you feel
If I expressed my deepest secrets
an...
Friday 23rd October 2015 2:00 am
Also by Dara Smith:
Show Me | The struggle | In his eyes | Shattered |Dawn
Dawn is naked and alive
pirouetting in the street outside
she is a broad grey sky, endless above
It's not rain...
just some foggy spray licking windows
a coat the building wears
a metaphor I cannot interpret
all irony is groggily lost on me
yawning with my whole body
struggling with the load of memory
I'm oiling daily
So maybe I should stay indoors
get the fire going, boil the kett...
Thursday 22nd October 2015 11:27 pm
Night fishing
Night fishing
It’s Saturday night and I just got paid
The lines of the song come to me
As I walk down the street
A certain swagger
A nervous demand on self
To look, to feel the part
Because I am out
In the night
Set to conquer
To overcome
To find that which seems illusive
It seems an ill conceived notion
Amongst the busy street
Of people and of colour
A...
Thursday 22nd October 2015 10:47 pm
Also by Martin Elder:
Superman |Happy Birthday
My feelings are free from their cage.
As my tears fall down my face,
All I do is count the days.
One-hundred one, One-hundred two,
These are the days when I miss you.
One-hundred three, One-hundred four,
Why can't this pain just be no more.
Today is my birthday,
Don't you see,
This is why
I need you with me.
Where ar...
Thursday 22nd October 2015 3:21 pm
Bit of a cough
I have got a bit of a cough I say
That is why my voice is breaking
Like shattered glass
And that my tears might trickle I say
I must have forgot to mention
How it is not only my oesophagus that blisters and pinches
Followed by crackles and sizzles
And that a tsunami is likely
Yet no diagnosis
And maybe I am not ill at all
I must have neglected to mention that
Perha...
Thursday 22nd October 2015 12:53 pm
Also by Abi Thomson:
Always remember the beach | Nova | Lusting Sin | P |l stood and stared
I stood and stared-
a long time seeking a
welcome gaze
that returned my greeting.
The World stared back
then went its way,
perhaps to lunch, perhaps
to play.
My friend the Mirror-
a listener of sorts,
in silence watched
and kept its thoughts.
Words and foto T Carroll
Wednesday 21st October 2015 11:24 pm
Also by Tommy Carroll:
Winter's cleave | now see what you've done? | shadowed looks | ((titter)) | One hour poem |If I Could Speak The Truth
I can't believe what you're asking whilst standing there in the dock,
For clemency, from this bench, whose justice you're trying to mock
You're standing there large as life having regaled your tale
Expecting me to grant your wish, but justice, its not for sale
You know that this can't be good, as you're handcuffed to a guard
It's easy for me with my pronouncements on a card
The sentence that...
Wednesday 21st October 2015 12:57 pm
Every Mobile is on Silent
Every mobile is on silent
every mail unread
every touch of human kindness unsaid
every day you wait
in the bus queue
behind the door
just waiting for someone to say
“you can take no more”
but...
Every mobile is on silent
every mail unread
every touch of human kindness is unsaid
Tuesday 20th October 2015 8:29 pm
Also by David R Mellor:
This is a Holy Death |a veiled curse
By the powers of fire and earth unto me.
I curse thee said nature.
I curse thee, you angered me.
Feel the fire of hell in your bones.
Feel the scream of a thousand condemned souls.
Feel the bloody battle field of world war two.
Feel it, like it were you.
Every month for days 4
You, shall feel your Blood pour
Eek your strength.
And bring you pain.
Every month for da...
Tuesday 20th October 2015 8:19 pm
How To Be A Denier
Claim yourself to be a fount of knowledge.
Claim that every scientist's a liar.
If you've done a course at any college
you can be a certified denier.
Gather up those inconvenient facts
and twist them like they're bendy bits of wire.
Disseminating data needs great tact
but any fool can thrive as a denier.
Lobby for a mega corporation
to push emission targets ever higher.
Easy work, ...
Tuesday 20th October 2015 3:59 pm
Also by Tim Ellis:
Six Degrees |victims of emotion
Victims of emotion challenged by the mind
Believing that extra light gives you power but an eclipse makes us blind
When our heart meets our mind and the dominance occurs and we surrender faster than the speed of light
A warrior recovers it's only a deep breath between the rounds of the fight
So many jewels blind their observer
And a parallel universe we observe what a unique server
Like wa...
Tuesday 20th October 2015 1:09 am
Conkers
Conkers
My dad used to make me play
in the yard in front of the shed.
He pushed huge holes through
with a clumsy tool that broke
some of the conkers in half.
For years I thought that tool’s
primary purpose was to hole
conkers, it’s secondary purpose,
to screw screws into walls.
He used to raise my abject arm,
“Higher,” I’d tense as he aimed
and brought...
Monday 19th October 2015 8:48 pm
Selected YouTube Comments from Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk, Ft. Bruno Mars
Why is it under Mark Ronson's name?
Bruno Mars sang almost the entire song.
It will be realised I am the one billionth.
It made me happy so you are wrong.
How quickly they forget....
Am I the only who heard Stalin?
I love Bruno Mars/Peter Hernandez!
(My friend's dad is cousins with Peter)
It should be Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk ft. Mark Ronson.
Bru...
Monday 19th October 2015 9:52 am
Benediction
He was her all black and blue
He was her every backward move
Bitten lips, sugar swollen tongues
unable to breathe, only to succumb
Wild-rose rush, indecorous release
bewildered by being hostage beneath
Afterwards, he whispers her to him:
“You are so loved,
you are so loved.”
© Katypoetess 2015
Sunday 18th October 2015 8:23 pm
Also by Katy Megan:
Dumb Destiny |So Hot, So Cold
Sunday 18th October 2015 5:50 pm
Time
TIME
Tick tock, tick tock
Watch the fingers go round on the clock,
Moving endlessly on, not caring.
Time, we can
Watch it, save it,
Fill it, use it,
Lose it, find it,
Half it, double it,
Give it, take it and even make it......
But time cheats us all in the end....
Saturday 17th October 2015 1:11 pm
For Michael
most of our greatest wise men are unknown
unless on the wide flat boob tube they’re shown
they can’t see through the big media mist
we know because we’re on that lucky list
writes a sonnet a day with convictions
of today’s news with ancient solutions
subtly or not included in each
they never know who’ll be the ones that teach
only our own values and what we are
...Thursday 15th October 2015 10:37 pm
cats get in the way
Little men with little hats,
running with the bats.
over the hedge and under the fence,
dodging frustrated cats.
people call us gnomes. but thats not who we are...
were pixies born from guilded stars.
hearing mother nature call when all the leaves begin to fall.
sprinkling diamonds in woven webs on frosty mornings
when all thats green slumbers in its bed...
Thursday 15th October 2015 4:39 pm
Warrior of Words
I’m a warrior of words
And I’ll fight you to the death
With my pen
For the right to speak my thoughts aloud.
I’ll tread the boards and stand before the crowd
Though I might need a moment to gather my thoughts
And choose a subject for an almighty discourse;
Life, Liberty and freedom, the usual sort of thing
I’ll have to wing it: speak off the cuff
I may even throw somethi...
Wednesday 14th October 2015 6:28 pm
A Whisky Adventure
Wednesday 14th October 2015 5:16 pm
Nonsense Rhymes (Two)
Having been denied a day in Marsden last Sunday, I sat at home and nursed my cold, the cause of my non-appearance there, and read some Hilaire Belloc: wonderful! I was thus inspired to write the following (no literary merit at all, but I had great fun scribbling!) Hope you enjoy:
Firstly:
Baby otters are wonderful creatures,
I've often heard it said.
They brush their teeth without demu...
Wednesday 14th October 2015 2:42 pm
Eat it
Voices from our own throats never tasted old enough.
Voices from our past never felt warm enough, or anything less than dead and respected.
Voices from the maw of a peer never felt heavy enough. It was still on the air, floating without the gravity of backwards corporeal consequence.
But now we're older.
Not old.
Not wise.
But older.
Wiser.
Maybe these half young throats si...
Wednesday 14th October 2015 8:51 am
HAMLET FROM THE FRONT ROW
HAMLET FROM THE FRONT ROW
In the front row ready to watch Hamlet
I stretch out my legs contentedly
“These are the best seats and the cheapest
You can see everything from here”
Says the guy next to me
“It’s like being part of the action”
I nod politely
The ghost doesn't appear
We have to imagine him
At the back of the theatre
So we swivel our heads
Unco...
Tuesday 13th October 2015 8:14 pm
Stockport WoL Collage Poem: Shades
Shades of wooden nowheres lead to light
Have you got a light
I need light
Instead of six lagers for breakfast
I had a piece of toast
Blood, hope, words can bring peace
In transition a panting breath
birth, life, death - always struggle, always joy
and always always words
Overrated Morrissey sprawls
on sun-splashed lawns
weaving goodbye lac...
Monday 12th October 2015 10:50 pm
English Soot
The faint smell of oak fills my room as I awaken.
I sit up in my lofted bed and blink twice
then rub the crust from beneath my eyes which
had accumulated throughout the night.
I shuffle into the bathroom and turn on the water to fill the porcelain sink.
After rinsing my face and brushing my teeth I trudged down the spiral staircase to see my father waiting for me in his stu...
Monday 12th October 2015 8:31 pm
The co-travellers.
There had to be a start,
to how conversations sprout,
in a train full of strangers,
whom you know nothing about.
Besides me seated,
a mother and her daughter,
a peaceful pair, caring, loving
cheerful, fun and laughter.
They seemed frequent travellers,
The mother, a teacher from a reputed school.
She was correcting notes of her students,
while her dau...
Monday 12th October 2015 10:02 am
Note
There just words he said....
It's what's in my heart she said...
Letters into words... Words into verse leaving ur head and seeing them disperse
Unheard unseen unfelt.... The sound will melt
So look in the windows of my soul, look into my eyes
See the emotion within where there are no lies
Look at me she said
I am he said
Emotion on my face ... ...
Sunday 11th October 2015 6:17 pm
Also by Ria Richardson:
Cancer | The future? |Her Name Was Amanda
On a bleak, dull, down-trodden day towards the end of April, I caught the train from the small town of Settle in North Yorkshire heading for Scotlands largest city, Glasgow, a train journey that would take the best part of five hours, so with that in mind I loaded my phone up with music, placed my journal into my inner jacket pocket, and loaded my camera with batteries ready to take photographs of...
Sunday 11th October 2015 3:41 pm
Also by Tony Kasazkaja:
The Enchantment of a Woman | Poverty In The UK | It's Time to Be A Man My Son | Mockingbird | Next Year Will Be Different | The Revolving Door Still Shut | Manipulation |Sway
by JD DeHart
Tortoises roam in the sand
while birds spear at the shallows
We saunter on, carrying our gear
until the sky begins
to blacken
My friend tells me in other
parts of the world, they do
not fear the flashes of light
and the roar of thunder
I remember a time when I
saw them
And was not afraid, but
the sway of adulthood, of
temperance, of panic
has found me and I go
...
Saturday 10th October 2015 3:37 pm
Also by JD DeHart:
Lions | Locus |I see the world.. A calm ocean, a pain deep and vast.. a colorful surface, a frightening past.. a heart warming sunrise, the shadow it casts.. I see the world.. I see the world.. The Beauty in life, death lurking behind.. purity of a soul, destroyed by a mind.. two completed by love, one completely can't find.. I see the world.. I see the world.. Through closed eyes I see, or so it would se...
Saturday 10th October 2015 11:31 am
A Metaphysical Poet's Lament
When life was newly made, and I was young,
I vow'd to follow where that Poet led
that charm'd the girls with skilful dancing tongue,
and every night saw someone new in bed.
For envy's hand did hold mine aching Pen;
mine Ink was spill'd in vain until the Sun;
yet did I lack those marks of greater men.
I follow'd on, to Marvell what they'd Donne.
How well my work frustration doth present!
H...
Friday 9th October 2015 11:34 pm
hour-glass
.
We search for symmetry
She searches for symmetry in my
Face.
I search for a flaw in her curves.
Some slight error which will attract
Me.
There are turquoise lines between
The crimson squares which make
up the irregular pattern on her
crumpled Shetland wool shape.
My hand sits on the curve of her
Hip, so when her boot slips on the
Jagged moss I take her weight on
My arm and sh...
Friday 9th October 2015 9:21 pm
Me, myself, and I
I love t0 look in the mirror
And think about who I am.
I love to look at the floor
And watch my feet as I walk.
I love to sing in the shower
To hear myself sing.
I love to laugh at stupid things
To make the tears fade away.
I love to sing to a song
Whom lyrics I do not know.
I love to strut down the road
When I know I won’t be famous.
Things that ...
Friday 9th October 2015 2:19 pm
Also by Emily Anne:
My image of my mother. | In my feelings... | Listen... | I am my own | Something... | Something... |Longing
i keep
a light on
for you
quiet voices
follow
each nodding
turn
of an hour
the night
passes cold
between
the ache
of my fingers
Thursday 8th October 2015 8:55 pm
October Morn
The dawn breaks gently on crisp October morn
Through misty eyes I welcome the new born day
A golden sun shimmers gently across the land
As a lush dew laden grassy carpet guides my way
A cloud of starlings paints a picture across the sky
Putting on a prize winning performance to die for
The trees shed their tears of yellow orange and red
Onto a warm welcoming cushioned kaleidos...
Thursday 8th October 2015 2:29 pm
That Little Four Letter Word Called Love
In the game of love, the act that should be the last, is now the opening salvo. But, as a man… why am I complaining?
This one is a work in progress. A bit bitter after hearing a fellow poet dismiss men’s romantic verse as “cheesy”, I thought how the shaggers / fuckers call them what you will, win and the decent folk are cast aside in these common times…
Karl Marx said religion was the ...
Thursday 8th October 2015 12:17 am
Ramsbottom Literary and Arts Festival
On 21st November 2015, we all swing into action to light up the whole town with words and arts!
Make a day of it.. Arrive on the ELR as part of their Ales and Tales event. Come for brunch and leave your kids writing in the library
Events for all the family all day and an 'adults only' theme in the evening as poetry meets burlesque.
See the website for details www.rammylitfest.com.
Wednesday 7th October 2015 3:55 pm
Delicate Love-
Delicate Love
Moving day; a time of excitement, worry and letting go. My baby girl has finished college, married the man of her dreams and is beginning a new chapter in her life. The van left an hour ago and on a whim I went to the attic to make sure she had everything. I glanced around and tucked in the corner the words “china” in girlish writing popped out at me.
...
Tuesday 6th October 2015 10:57 pm
CAN CDA BE APPLIED TO POETRY?
Critical Discourse Analysis is the study of language either verbal or nonverbal. It deals with the understanding of meaning hidden in the utterances. Teachers, Linguists, and professionals apply various tools of CDA for the analysis of language. Can such tools be applied for the analysis of poetic language? SHEERAZ ALI
RE...
Tuesday 6th October 2015 1:59 pm
LOVE
Several times i was around you,
Several times in your heart.
You promised to love me forever,
And i did hold on to that thought.
So love hold me tight now more than ever,
Soon you will be gone and this time will be over.
Again there will be long days and lonely nights,
Without you being there by my side.
You will be far far away in the land of fire and fury,
Sa...
Monday 5th October 2015 10:52 am
You're not right in the head if you think I want to fit in
No offence I have my reasons
Blooming moody poetry
I got 5 out of 10 for performing in Didsbury the crowd loved it
F the haters they may dislike my face but at least I dispise them aswell
Mmm money lovers should remember not everyone's had a sheltered childhood soz
I've said too much its never enough
You make me feel l...
Sunday 4th October 2015 8:13 pm
Unknown
My blood is kept in a capsule in which she carries
She uncorks the top and it dribbles into the ground
Sinking below me, in the roots I stand over
And it devours me like quicksand as well her screams
My body is cold.
Sunday 4th October 2015 5:27 am
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
She looks at me with those mesmerizing eyes
And tells me, "Love, this is goodbye."
Her sweet lips draws up a smile and she blows me a kiss
Whispering, "I love you and I'll see you in a bit."
She close her eyes and rest her soul
Her love is all that I want to know
Her breathing, steady and quiet
Her body, soundly asleep
Therefore, I quietly kiss her on the cheek
And sile...
Sunday 4th October 2015 3:05 am
Also by Smash Lee:
The Lover's Plight | Crush | The Lover's Truth | Sliver of the Moon | The Hurricane |Autumn
A time, I knew death; and birth.
With belief I will be
an Autumn leaf
looking for Spring.
Winter is not the season
for foolish gravediggers
who await the journey to warmth.
Saturday 3rd October 2015 1:13 pm
Numb Too
Certain situations you become numb too
Just certain things ain’t what it use too
My language is disguise it what it said too
Even though my heart is against you
Left for dead made for two
Living life not youth too
Forgiving past that aren’t truthful
Giving life to people who use you
Is this what it’s about?
I can’t give a concern
Yearning for idealism in realism
No...
Saturday 3rd October 2015 6:56 am
9 to 5 hell.
On the surface, I look calm and steady,
But inside it feels that I'm not at all ready,
These expectations of being someone that they have from me,
Are not my aspirations, its not who I ought to be.
Do what you love, it's what they once said,
But then you job coz you need to get paid,
I killed the child inside me a long time ago,
Creativity at it's finest is what I craved for.
Then came...
Saturday 3rd October 2015 4:14 am
Mirror-of-life
Looking something in the mirror of life
I found a image so aright
Was it eternal ,or a ephemeral, I had seen
A hope it was ,that has kept me alive
Endeavouring a new chapter of courage
Aiming right at the euphoric season
Happiness and prosperity at my door
Looking for the vivacious voyage
Quietness showed a new meaning then
Words became silent in there sleeves
Action was a new...
Friday 2nd October 2015 4:28 pm
perpetual desk calendar
this is my little wooden
perpetual desk calendar
with cricket bat and ball
the one that bowls away my days
my parents bought it years ago
in Brixham or Torquay
or somewhere similar by the sea
when I left home my Mum gifted it to me
she told me it was my responsibility
to look after my own share of time
make the most of what’s to come
the printed days and month...
Thursday 1st October 2015 10:39 pm
THE TIME OF MAN
THE TIME OF MAN.
Wandering, aimless, blameless but blind
Searching for something you’ll never find
A wanderer, a squanderer of time...
A nomad, placeless, faceless,
Just like the rest. Eyes firmly set
On what you can get from today.
Ignoring the voices in your head
Carping, “What about tomorrow?”
Harping, “Consider the past.”
Is it the end? Has the dice been cast?
Seeing the world t...
Thursday 1st October 2015 10:41 am
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