This evening I am out walking
the static crackles
in the living room
and in the hallway
I lace my shoes
and go out walking

Tree-shapes calm me
dew drops kicked from blades of grass
individually
this act cleanses things
I feel my fangs receding
sense the silence 
breathe back into me

Imagine the TV glow dimming
imagine the hatred in her eyes 
retreating
feel the black air cleari...

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Ghosts

To children, who are sore afraid
That night-time ghosts will get them:
Fear not, the monsters who will eat
Your brains at night won't let them.

Goblins

Ghosts and goblins, ghouls and trolls
From these we can't protect you.
We’re going to the Rose and Crown,
We’re going to get wrecked. You
Might just want to lock the door.
Me and your dad will be back about four.

The...

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spring of remembrance-

a woodpecker lost to sight

about the gardens

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My mind say's let you go

But my heart keeps on whispering no!

We both want each other's hand

But there are so many obstacles around

We both know that we are taken

And this love has to be broken

How far can we take the risks?

If we both want each others kiss?

Some says, "fight for your love"

'Coz it will fly just like a dove

It will surely cure a broken heart

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People line up at my door.

I ignore them.

It’s windy and rainy and cold

inside.

They line up, 

and frantically shout at me,

asking me 

why the sun is gone inside.

I am drenched,

cold, and rubbed raw

by the wind and snow,

blowing on my face.

I want to step outside,

but people will run to me

and ask me why 

it is raining inside.

I w...

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When you smile,
Minutes lose all of their seriousness,
Suddenly, it starts to run on your cheekbones
As kids who are wearing the cardigans of innocence
And they quit counting the flow of life,
While your lips edges are getting close to your dimples.

When you smile,
-Especially when your eyes come along with that smile-
And when the laughs open it's wings with all of it's prettiness
Word...

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This is best viewed as video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63ueEqhUyw

At Apple we are the very best
Techno-wise we can’t be beat
We’re cooler than all the rest
Unlike Samsung we don’t cheat..
Iphones, mac-airs and much more
Our products will blow your mind
Buy goods from the Apple store
The most expensive you’ll ever find
Money-wise there is no contest
Cupertino won’t be beat
Gr...

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Sometimes I feel like there are no happy endings 

He lied

You died

We tried

He hides

Sometimes I feel like this is my happy ending 

No lies

No crying

No trying

No more searching

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When I was young

I wanted to be a truck driver,

but now I am older

and have travelled many miles;

When I was older

I wanted to be a physicist,

but my head became full of numbers and symbols

and I could no longer speak discernible language;

When I wanted to sweat away the books

I endeavored to be a blacksmith,

but now my body is tired

and I want to rest fr...

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Skipping down the sidewalk, hand in hand with daughter
Enjoying silliness in front of the crowd's view
Laughing and then giggling with happiness breakthrough
At the early struggles with cancerous water

She became ill early, driving her to clinic
Being transferred in haste to nearest hospital
So that they monitor that her bones were brittle
And her vitality was a curious cynic

They trea...

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The pipes ticking,

the radio’s voices quietly conspiring,

the cat as if drunk

clanking about the kitchen,

I practice bare attention

and open myself to it all

the moment

the room, the moonlight

the chair by the window

waiting as if for a ghost

a book upturned, open on a page

I’ve read and reread a thousand times

and train my breath and listen

and recall inten...

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Sharp jagged edges tear through my skull
running backwards and forwards
creating heat, as only your words can

Nerve ends jangle
trying to understand the sensations
of torn skin
of bone displaced
of blood in strange, new places

Then comes the ultimate reward -
my mind is opened

Based on Emily Dickinson's quote:

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I ...

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I'll never die
heroes never die
does that make me a hero? 
or am I just 
alive

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I must have passed this attic door,
Framed in it`s mist of quietness
 A thousand times
I wonder what it was
That bid me now
Accept the invitation
And come in.

This journey
Through nostalgia country
Has been sweet.
Past the old rocking horse
(my first addiction)
My old three-wheeler bike
Upon which - trailing
A panic of pursuing womenfolk -
I first burst out the bonds of neigh...

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As I walked through Newsham Park, down a darkened Orphan Drive.
I came to the abandoned asylum, where spirits they say still thrive.
Inside the old wards,lie discarded wheelchairs and relinquished chains.
Rusty old trollies are scattered about,in these derelict old remains.

Sudden temperature drops are not uncommon, which add to the chill.
Mortuary fridges a reminder of its past, an eerie...

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When mercy sleeps

Compassion dies

And love cries for all that’s gone

Because grace has stopped searching

For the lost and vulnerable

And pity has become a dirty word

That lines the rubbish bins of those that have

And all those who have not are perceived

To bite the hand that feeds them

Because they are apparently

Filthy scrounging and greedy

As the needy and h...

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In springtime when the forest greens,

And buds dot woodland bed,

I love to view these wondrous scenes

To clear my wintry head;

Where rivers flow among the trees,

And splashes echo on the breeze,

            Where rivers flow,

            Where rivers flow

To bumbling buzz of roving bees.

In springtime when the forest greens,

And life returns to earth,

Once hel...

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They're digging the road up       again

last time it was a water main

this time it's gas replacement

from minor road to minor basement

they're moleing through the grass and dew

the traffic mounts

temporary lights

temperatures rise

and particulates.

They're digging up the road        again

strange vehicles stand back to back

men in red are visible for mile...

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If only I was a super scary eerie ghost

I long to be a grim gallant ghastly ghoul

Get up to all kinds of mystic mischief

And generally play act the foolish fool

I am surely in a Halloween state of mind

Only allowed out to surprise on October 31

A genuine evil deadly dude one of a kind

Well I’ll be a sinister surly son of a gun

I will scare the pants off you guaranteed

Yo...

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They're building a wall on the border.
They question which God you revere.
The military men have their orders
to weed out the liberals and queers.
The nation is ravaged with violence.
His critics are seeking asylum.

The U.S. lies in ruin - go figure 
why the wider world is gripped with fear:
President Trump has control of the nuclear trigger.

He's ripped up the free trade agreements...

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Autumn quietly reaches out and gifts Summer her cloak

To cover the bright capricious head from the change she can't revoke.

Everywhere there are signs of storing and the gathering of fuel,

As the World spins on its restless way to welcome rich renewal.

It's time for Nature to take a pause...for life to take a breath,

Before Winter takes a vice-like grip and all seems akin to death.

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She runs down the 

meadow 

Catching grasping at her

breath

Faster faster 

Legs akimbo

While her shadow

crept.  

Words By Dad + Roisin

Foto Tommy Carroll 

re-edit 

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In the valley of despair,
full of aught, but strange thoughts,
where darkness wrapped the welkin
and silence ruled the fields,
a mere lonely soul,
walking in solitude.
The lush green grass,
swayed in the breeze
as the melancholy of the soul,
swooped in the puff.
Prickly paths were those,
yet she felt as snowflakes,
as pain was all around,
utter pain was ruling her.
The valley seemed ...

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"Please do you have any change spare?"

Only occasionally people give.

Vacant stares usually oppress

Everyday, it is a struggle to live.    

Rumbling stomachs scream and stress 

Time is captive, trapped in such a mess

"You must see, do you even care?"
 

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Some years ago (about 18, as it happens) I was working on a contract at Fujitsu, near Newton Aycliffe.

We’d just finished for the day and three of us, Eric, Joe and myself, were stood at Reception sharing a bit of banter with the security guys.

“You must be raking it in, your blokes.” says Joe  “You were on last night, this morning and you’re on again now”.

“You’ve got to be joking” says ...

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I will always be the broken one,
I never seem to find time for myself,
Trying to fix other people's problems,
Putting my own stress upon the shelf

And as the anxiety begins its slow ascent
Like an ocean tide, wave by wave
I feel like I'm tied to the floor, unable to breathe,
Forced to watch as it drags me to my grave

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Standing there on the bourn

out of time, events

the leaves fluttering

I fall prey to dreaming

An aspen is whisperig to me

years go by

An aspen is whispering to me

I feel the vibrations

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If your shirt has no button
and your trousers are roughen, 
if your jacket is so crushed
and your carpet needs a brush, 
if you can’t find a clotheshorse
and all the time curse
There is only one way out: 
to marry or divorce.

Larisa Rzhepishevska (Odessa, Ukraine)

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The Simplest Hug

The embrace of the one you love,

That moment of togetherness,

The briefest moment, the pause,

The physicality and biology,

The connection psychologically,

The look in your beautiful eyes,

The faintest kiss,

Then we close,

The Wrapped around,

The Limbs embrace and entwine,

The Senses overload,

Whisp of perfume and cologne,

The Ears key in to b...

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Let go of fear

For it doesn’t serve

Truth & love

And Everything left is dust

It falls when the sun rises

Disappears when the wind blows

Try if you must to hold on

But days will go by

The Sun will still set & rise

And So we will grow

Only love remains

Patient or restless

Together or alone

It will if its meant to

Fear not loneliness

Op...

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I don’t need applause

Or any kind of praise

I don’t need affirmations of love

Just a sign, that’s enough.

I don’t need platitudes

Or fake understanding.

I don’t need speeches

Just a word, that’s enough.

I don’t need your tears

I’ve got tears of my own

And I don’t need your anger,

Just advice, that’s enough.

I don’t need your sorrows,

I’ve ...

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(blatant Eliot ripoff)

One fine dark night with a fine dark sky
And fine-sliced moon so bright,
A Cat leapt forth with a fine black coat
And paws of moonlit white;
If I should ask you to say her name
I'm sure you'd tell me that
She's Yantantessera,
Tessera, Tessera,
Tessera Tessera, Cat.

She had no humans, she had no home,
She had no meals to eat,
But soon, by means of a friendly p...

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alva is who appears at midnight

with a mechanical needle one hundred metres long

sucking bleak black blood from the acne scars of mother

alva is here when i am alone and i lock my door

peeling crescent moons of rose red flesh

alva is the sin

that lets me think i can get away with it

the foolish pride

the gluttony

the decaying colostrum from your darkened nipples

alva ...

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1.Questions

“Mum, what’s a laboratory?”

“Well son, it’s a place where

Men in white coats

With hair all over the place

Make exciting things

That fizz and bang and sometimes smell rotten”

“Dad, how can the moon be all those different shapes?”

“Because it’s clever and it can.”

“Mum, what’s a Policeman?”

“Well son, he’s very smart and helpful

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I would kill to dance with you underneath the moon. only nature surrounding us as we captivate earth with the way we speak of magic and change. for no one believes I can pick myself back up to be noticed by the sun. 

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immatured hearts can not seperate love from simple infatution, nor understand the damage such lack of experience can create in ones life. it is motivated by ego & blinded by its need for attention.

matured hearts does not care for mindgames. they communicate. they know that love is playful, not childish. such hearts recognize love as a safe place. home. because love is loyal & trustwhorty. it d...

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Fairy Cakes

They believed in a mythical being,

who supposedly loved his creation.

Omnipotent and all seeing -

His will needing no explanation.

They followed his lore from an old book

written by disciples raising the stakes -

that one thing they just shouldn’t cook

were those sinful and bad fairy cakes.

“Good will to all men” they proclaimed

(but the women di...

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You entered my life and created a world

A life of perfection and a future arose

I had it all but was not ready

So lost it all in a selfish millisecond,

Now ten years later I still regret 

Like a medieval black sickness 

I wish to forget,

I'd do anything to rewind a decade or more

But knowing your with him hurts even more

Life stretched forth and I'm trapped within

I a...

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Peace is a road leading to the place

where the green of winter is holding fast

against the browns of summer’s advance..

Peace is stepping on wood old as life

on a path damp and wet

and filled with colour, reflections and

the smell of nature in cycles

Peace is listening to the lapping water that

edges and amplifies the sounds

of birds settling all a-rustling on the banks

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(Two short poems from my recently released book 'the end of summer' (https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Summer-Andy-N-ebook/dp/B01LY7YR9K)
  
I 
  
Summer will come again 
and the rain will stop spraying 
the air like spilled pepper. 
  
Leaves will stop crunching on the floor 
and sleet will stop reducing 
your shoes to tears. 
  
The wind still stop slamming 
shut your back door 
and pop...

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When you lie

I smile, I laugh,
Just look at you face..
But in my mind there is only disgrace...

When you lie

I have seen that look,
know your tricks for some time..
Two timing is in your blood.. ur niether his nor mine..

When you lie

Ur angry, U scream..
Voilent some times..
See the lies in your eyes
Ur infidelity they define.

When you lie

You take me for a fool...

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Surfing

I surf through television channels to avoid facing my relationship dismantle. 

I scan endless book pages to avert realization that my my heart, mind, and soul are now in iron clad cages.

Distraction I relentlessly search. 
Silence is what I fear most. 

A once fantasied happily ever after. 
A life that was full of laughter.

I cannot reside alone with my thoughts.
I'm tongu...

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With his close-cropped hair and his tatoos here and there

And his thin pale face and his commitment to the race

Christian James was well known for going it alone

He drove the multi-story and he died in a blaze of glory.

The owner of the Golf GT

A businessman from Daventry

Got a new one from the factory.

Christian James, youngest of seven

Lived & Died and went to H...

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Toasting and turning myself around

struggling with my soft feathery blanket

donning and undonning

my squeaky eyes peering

through the messy strands

of my newly awoken hair

when i glare at the booming golden sun

slightly reluctant to lay out

edeavoring to pierce through

the shabby,bit-way tarnished curtains

and touch to kiss my honey hued skin

my partly revealing sk...

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Fair as the morning, bright as the day

Life changes then passes away,

Bright as a sunbeam, pure as the dew

We wake to see the beauty renew.

Over the river to the other side

Sun and moon shall still abide,

As the time passes over the sky

Make fine your farewell,

Make good your goodbye.

Only when you drink from the river of silence

And the blue waves beat a st...

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night of shivering

endless darkness swallows all

peering eyes sees black

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the desert rose
the first lady of hell on earth 
she takes my breath away

like poison gas

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i saw you and i knew ...immediately ..without a shred of doubt   .. you were my serendipity 

My treasure id found amongst the pieces of my broken heart that id walked on over and over with bare bleeding feet .

I wasnt looking for you  , it was a chance in a million , the universe was aligned at that moment in time creating a magical space for the two of us to dwell in .

We revelled in our...

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                       A PLACE OF MYSTERY

Where all men sit in peace,

Where all wars begin to cease,

Where Black and White are mere colours,

Where all races together stand as the Earth’s pillars,

Where flowers bloom under the sun with grace,

Watched by everyone with equal awe and praise,

Where animals roam in freedom, without fear,

Where no creature perceives another a...

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(folks, this one is a bit of an epic, so have a cup of tea ready, or perhaps a few shots of vodka..)

And Lo
So let it be said
And let it also be written thus
And let it be passed down through the generations
Like rare unicorn musk..

There was once a man so wise
And this wise man was a very wise man
And he did offer me deeply learned counsel
And he did point to a very far away pla...

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PINK CLOUDS

Pink clouds
in the evening sky
cover its cloak
with white horses.
A sleeping sun
honours their arrival
with its last rays
adorning them
with new robes.
The wind makes
the pink clouds dance
and ruffles them
like the hair
of a young Goddess
who, seraphic, contemplates
the horizon.

Poem from the book "Voci ai confini dell'anima" by Maria Tosti

(Voices to the b...

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   How dare you
Raise my hopes once again
Shatter them on the concrete
Leave  me breathless and bleeding

And you don't even see it
Not the tears, or the anger,
The hopelessness
That steals my emotions 

Because of you I am a shell
I am the worst part of me
Outwardly beautiful
Inside a bloody ghoul

Empty pits for eyes
Unending cavern of a soul
Ravenous hands
Greed filled mind
 

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I have a problem,

her name is "My Wife".

She claims the house is her domain,

but complains when I call myself "King of the Car".

She hates driving,

so I graciously drive on family trips

and she gets to turn around and 

try and make the kids shut up.

"I have to pee!"

"I'm hungry!"

"She's bothering me!"

And of course, the classic,

"Are we there yet?".

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The silent instrumental

a lament of inward instruments

the slow beat of past beasts and

foreword to empty space of

future's haste and hesitation 

dedication to the sound 

and silence ungrounded 

inaction for a fraction of the

time it took to be swept up

in your full orchestral song

here I belong eternal yet

I still sway to silence's 

tight grip inadequate 

th...

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Out of all the people I know

none really know me

every time I meet someone new 

I put on a face for someone to see

But I have just met someone 

who figured out the truth 

Ans all the things I always feared and never followed through

and guess what 

they didn't see me as a threat

they loved my personality 

the moment that we met

we had the fears and they deemed just...

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Lights stretch open my eyeballs

My tramadol eyeballs blink

When you get the same chance

You would also blink

Blink into blackness

Blink into dreams

My tramadol eyeballs blink

I’m not sure how to move forward

But stillness is ok

For the use of moving is like

The morning of night

When it should be light

I still feel dark

My tramadol eyeballs blink

...

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Concentrated dark matter
Constant chatter
I hear kids laughter
I turn to see disaster
I'm not a trainer
I'm a full fledged master
Turning the sphere faster
I start to wonder
Does any of it matter?
Kids are battered
We indulge ourselves
Getting fatter!
Uncle jo thinks he's a rapper
Nothing real coming out
No one know what he's
Talking about
So he just shouts
No rhythm
No art
No p...

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Bloated black spot below the surface

Mystery to the eye and wonder to the mind

Only can you ideate the concept

When you free your mind and live in blissful liberation

Poke at it once and you will see

Poke at it again and you will learn

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The loudmouth recluse has finally decided to do a blog to coincide with the release of his new EP 'Get' available free to download at https://soundcloud.com/jimmy-andrex/albums

There is little else of interest about him, hipsters, so why not download it and see for yourself.  

"The best lack all conviction while the worst have a passionate intensity."

You decide.

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Today; thinking and chatting with a musical friend about the creative thing.  That gap nothing else satisfies.  Your own response.  Some aspect of the day distilled.  Here's mine today.

A Beautiful Man

So he’s tall.  Or not.

That he commands a room,

or skulks in a corner.

Watches.  Listens.

So he’s quick.  Perhaps.

A mind that moves,

builds new worlds.

Gu...

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It's an oldie, but appropriate for the time of year...

Why Do Poets Like Autumn?

Autumn is rain.
Pitiless, bucketing, funeral rain
that makes gutters into rivers
and umbrellas into shreds.
Steaming, fetid rain
tasting of mould and death.

Autumn is roadkill.
Rotting little pools of blood and fur,
once hedgehogs, pheasants, rabbits;
Concertinaed bonnets of Audis
askew across t...

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Does anyone understand me?

Does anyone really care?

All I want is to live my life to the fullest 

All people want to do is hold me back and pen me up.

Why can't I just do what I want?

Why won't they support me?

All I want to do help.people...give them what I didn't have for so long and don't again.

Thoughts and words, support and concern, love and support ... but what do I kno...

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You tell me Im worthless

Tell me Im nothing

Tell me that nobody, never will love me

You tell me Im stupid

Tell me Im fat

You tell me this all from my head where you laugh

You told me to do it

Said it was best

But it broke my whole family, ripped their hearts from their chests

Now I feel revolting

I was never alone

Killing my pain, killed all their ho...

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Too much time spent on not really knowing what's going on,

Here but wanting to be there,

There but worrying if I care,

Flirting on the peripharies of fitting,

Electricity rises up in my brain where frustration reigns,

Dishonest pockets grow and grow with the weight of days,

Until I am left with a lifeless gaze. 

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Never trust a lover who in the throes of passion

calls you 'Baby' or 'Babe' -

that generic name for a sex partner

whose body is equally generic.

It means in an unguarded moment 

the name of someone else entirely

might slip out with an orgasmic yelp

which definitely would not be cool

a real mood buster.

In fairness such caution

does mark a certain level of...

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She said The sea must be a lady

“The sea is me”, she meant

I took her words to be a fact, a factor in own my identity

I am sure that  I am the shore

And at day break, I was still pure

Caramel, sandy and tan before I am kissed

Kissed wildly by the sun that melanises

Ebony to green, the sun that photosynthesises

And from your violent waves, My kinky hair a frizz

Awaken to ...

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We're trapped, they said. 

I saw it, have you - 

The eyes that seemed wild with insanity? 

You only get a free one way ticket - 

To the place that feeds on the life of you.  

It's a crossroad, they said. 

One path may lead you to Heaven, 

While the other to Hell - 

However, did the naivety of your souls 

Ever give in to ignorance? 

Stealing away

A curiosi...

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10/18/2016

Untitled
Gavin Lane

Standing on the top of a mountain
Being able to breathe fresh air
Seeing everything so small beneath me
Reminding me of why I had to come here
In life I get anxiety
I let people think they are better than me
I put my self down when it comes to anyone around me
I pretend to smile so they think I'm happy
Trying to avoid talking about "whats wrong with ...

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In neverland you think there's a lot you'd never see but then you'll end up shocked like me. 
Neverland is a fairy tales worst dream in life things are always as they seem. 
Hurt and pain equals everyday life tears are the only water flow in sight. 
I am a hidden pride stuck in black light. 
Days seem shorter and night is ever, storm is the common mans weather. 
Dreams are beautiful but the l...

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My name is no longer my given, but the url you see 

Yours will disappear in time, hidden behind a screen 

Every light and sound entices us,

Nothing is out of reach.

Colours blend in pixilated form,

Occasionally we will look away.

Unified it brings us together,

Never letting us believe we're alone.

Together we buy into the conspiracy,

Every single one, we see.

Rid...

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I have been incredibly pleased with the response to my autobiography 'Arguments Yard'.  Literally every single review has been fantastic - you can read a selection here http://www.attilathestockbroker.com/argyard-reviews.php - and it sold out of its first pressing of 2,000 several weeks ago, more than half of those sold by yours truly in the course of the 100+ gigs I have done since its publicatio...

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Before I even begin to talk about judo I should define what art is or at least what it is to me. The dictionary defines art as “The conscious use of imagination in the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as an arrangement of forms, sounds or words.” To me art is simply expression, in whatever form it may take, dance, music, painting, sculpture or in this ...

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I have no need for sleep,

no more than you have a need for me. 

no more than the wind blows,

I feel lost in your web.

I do not sleep,

simply because my dreams.

In my dreams you appear night after night, 

and night after night brings me to your face.

I wish I could feel your warm embrace once more.

I wish I could hold your hand and not feel numb.

I miss the me you once...

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She is not here

in the garden, in the crunching

of snails,

the careful snip of a rose.

She is not here

in my kitchen, puffing out

bags of flour;

no mischief in my measuring out.

She is not here

in my study, the place

I planned my retreat

after many long years.

She is not here

in my car, the radio

spilling out fresh horrors,

my name sunk a...

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Wanting whatever might still be found
Picked from the ruins of the Holy Land
I took a plane to Ben Gurion. 

I was soon savouring the smells and stalls
Wandering the teeming warren of washed stone steps
and ancient alleyways of old Jerusalem. 

Allured by handbells and hallelujahs
I tagged on the tail of a serpentine train
Of Christian pilgrims waving palms
Singing psalms praising Jesus...

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Another moist, reluctant sunrise
through the night sweat morning dew
emancipated
the worm pushed towards the light
loosely erect

Across the lawn
the over stuffed pigeon
puffed up her unkempt plumage
cooed a taunt
How dare you wake up today
How dare you show that you tried today

Waddling heavily
she pinched him up
gluttony oozing
heaved him away
apatheticaly consenting to his fat...

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for Peter Robinson

I was listening to Dylan’s Time Out of Mind,

his late renewal after wasted years

– all simmer and wry despair –

to find that maybe he was rated again.

The voice was a wreck on a burnished track,

the songs a palimpsest of antique blues.

In the end the words will come

if they have to, like music that’s ghosted

by echoes stored in a phonograph’...

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The darkness in my soul is made up of anger,

I try to keep others out of this danger.

I have never felt so down and alone,

feeling as if this really is the unknown. 

Wondering if there is anywhere to go, 

crying out a steady flow. 

Breaking down the end is near, 

all that's left is you and fear.

- Katelyn  

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I wrote this for my now fiance not long after we first started seeing each other after her love for cats (and her tongue in cheek insistance she was one) inspired me to start writing again, after maybe 5 years of not picking up a pen.  I recently proposed to her through a series of short poems taking us on a treasure hunt around Edinburgh looking for J K Rowling inspired landmarks, but that's anot...

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I don't often post on this poetry blog but I feel so strongly about this subject, I had to share it.

Dear Donald Trump

Dear Donald Trump, the thought of you as the next Leader

of the Free World makes me want to hurl. 

Has America lost her mind

to even consider a racist, sexist buffoon

who hasn’t the sense to spend a sliver of his tax-free billions

on decent hair...

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Triggering Article 50 –

Or

Happiness is a warm gun, bang bang shoot shoot  (Lennon-McCartney)

A clicking sensation is going through her Trigger

Happy Finger, itching to pull.

Bang Bang.

No-one can hold a gun for long,

arms get tired, the finger suddenly jerks

Bang Bang, too late..

And why have a gun, in the first place, Mrs M,

the licencing officer asks...

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I drew something today.

First glance;

it's intricate,

it's how I feel,

it's me.

Second glance;

it all shifted.

It's uneven,

it's distasteful,

it's just a pile of fucked up lines.

I analyzed this thought and realized that it accurately describes my whole life.

Everything I do,

everything I say,

is what I think fits.

What I think is right.

When ...

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How do I love you?

When I dont even know how you feel?

Could any of this be real?

Please don?t tell me it isn't true, because all of this would have been so cruel.

I care for you and all your flaws.

I adore you from afair afraid you'll see that I've fallen for you.

I'm afraid to say anything in fear of whatever is going on will stop.

you once told me you were lonely, did I fil...

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She waited with her thoughts 
Her shallow breath baited
Unable to withdraw from the 
World they had created. 

Anything was possible 
All they had was belief
Nothing ever changed
They still waited for relief.

Was it a waste of time? 
His more precious than hers
What was down the line?
The thought gave her shivers.

They might not make it 
It could all be for nothing 
All that tim...

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I try to find words for what I feel everyday,

Blinding sunlight yet shrouded in clouds of gray. 

My daughter, 

Only two months of age, 

My life, 

My world, 

My joy. 

I peer out the windows of our home and am so terrified of what can take her away. 

Anxiety, that's the name. 

I fear everything, 

The walls, 

The creaking of my floor, 

Even the whispers from the te...

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....He only knew my body but never yearned to learn my soul

So in the depths of our passion I found myself cold

Was it the scent of his manhood or the caress of his eyes

His hands on my stomach rolling down my thick thighs?

His touch made me quiver, his breath made me Shake

I realized this man was no more than a snake

My body's had all that my mind cannot take

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It’s just locker room.

It’s just talk.

It’s just locker room talk.

Locker room mocking.

It’s just locker room banter.

Locker room assault.

It’s just locker room misogyny.

Locker room rape.

It’s just locker room rape.

It’s just rape.

It’s just misogyny.

Nobody has more respect for women than I do.

Nobody.

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Trust is an illusion. A systematically flawed word. A total forgery of a statement. Trust assumes infallibility - without errors, mistakes or fuck ups. How do we trust others when we can't even trust ourselves .. If the potential gain outweighs the potential risk we're likely to oblige. Whether the repercussions be momentary or long standing, we're going to indulge in whatever we feel is beneficia...

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We wear our sagas like garments

Until they stain pages with stories longer

Than mere memory 

Deeper than day-to-day

Ghosts hitch rides on our bodies

Move inside soul 

Changing us 

Causing pain that moves 

But won’t disappear

You and I swim in ambiguity of fortune

Toward distant shores

Fully dressed and carrying the weight of

Everything that clings to us

These...

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Skip to the blue book, where Kerouac

Sounds better than Spanish

Pouring madness into teacups

Weeping daily for the return of summer

Relinquish, forgive, summer

Washed up love on a bed of lies

Impelled by the weird sisters

Into someone else’s destiny

I have got a mental block

Can’t think of the rhyme

So you’ll have to wait til next time

A mi...

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This feeling is a mask for deeper pain 

That snickers at me from between the cracks

Calling for me to give in to the mass

A tug of war from the darkness I attract 

To the purest of happiest moments 

A continuing cycle of what was and what has become 

Leaves you exhausted and a little bit insane

Just trying to get back what we might have lost 

Yet time can only tell if what ...

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Brexit means Brexit
facile means glib
stupid means dumb
and a lie is a fib

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               A Message of Hope

This is a message of hope, of peace, of justice

Of the pieces of me that are not taken

Not trapped, Not tapped of sourceful energy. 

And the resources of friendship and kindness and love

Of the part of me that is alive and breathing and being. 

With Nature and trees and sun

With butterflies and hummingbirds and eyes open

Watching the glow of...

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First Crush (Germ Free Haiku)

She's the hard hitter

 the ear splitter,

A dayglow, spandex, out fitter.

3 feet tall, voice like a wall,

Marianne Said is having a ball,

That girl she’s having a ball.

Polly  on  the stage.

 On all fours, shout ‘Plastic bags’

Shout ‘bondage up yours’!

Balls and drains

Shit for brains,

I want to sing it all again.

Bring...

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  ALEPPO

 Experts say if the stones remain

 What was within can be restored,

 But they make bombs now

 That can penetrate

 The strongest cover;

 Expensive but occasionally

 They use them.

 And lives destroyed

 Cannot be recreated

 By mechanical diggers,

 Architects or builders;

 Only silent museums

 Filled with the debris

 Of destruction.

 The...

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Yes he has hurt her

Silence will confess mutely

Whining within, it will moan

For its, little bit of her own

“Unchecked and not-replied texts”

She educated them on his habits

Wiped briny drops; wouldn’t be shown

 Restive is little bit of her own

Deafened soul recalls the flashes

Of their frolicking oneness

Zipped them; faking smiles put on

Fidgeting with l...

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Dark street and dim light

It was a shame, shameful night.

The girl was walking with her mother

Safe she felt, nothing to bother.

Suddenly came a devil on the way

Groped her

Clutched her breast.

Striped off her dignity, and sped away.

The girl went blank, too shocked to react 

She lost herself in the little act.

An insult to femininity were her breasts

Chastity...

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it takes time to realize watches only tick with every step you take 

And earthquakes only last as long as reality refuses to shake

I can sit her and talk about calmities and pretend like they help shape my world 

the only thing that shakes my inner makings and make all of my pieces stick together is that sticky thing love

It has me feeling invincible to harm and invisible to the negati...

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Her lips were pinched,

Her eyes were deep.

She cries for hours,

Before she sleeps.

Her nostrils are flared,

Her tears are falling.

The way they treat her,

Is more than appalling.

She's broken inside,

And she's lost all hope.

This horrible life,

Is getting harder to cope.

Her tears have stopped running,

She no longer feels dread.

This is beca...

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