When the sky’s ink-black and the moon’s gone mad,
It’s a Halloween night like you’ve never had!
Down cobblestone streets, shrieks fill the air,
As witches stomp by with green tangled hair.

A zombie brigade starts to drag their dead feet,
Groaning, “Brains!” as they lurch towards every street.
Kids shriek, “Trick or treat!” with devilish glee,
While vampires hiss, "Save a drop for me!"

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Experience alone, does not make us wise,
For age and years, do not guarantee the prize.
It's how we react, to life's every test,
That shapes our soul, and puts us to the best.

Reflection's mirror, shows our inner face,
Helping us grow, in time and space.
Through trials and falls, we rise anew,
Awareness born, of what we once knew.

Experience teaches, but doesn't transform,
Until we re...

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SMUDGER JOCK

Though in the print by trade, how the bills got paid,

my Dad for years went window cleaning

Smudger with scrim,  I remember him, 

 Jock kept those windows gleaming

With bucket in hand, throughout the land, my Dad was fit as a fiddle

Up high he would go whilst I’d stay low, not even to the middle

of his high ladder, would go my bladder whilst Dad up 80 foot

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Bluebell girl, standing alone and pale in the sun.

Standing at the roadside, she holds out her thumb.

A car driver soon pulls over right up to her side.

Then he takes the Bluebell girl on a familiar ride.

The driver talks, but the girl can only softly weep.

Because the Bluebell girl she has a secret to keep.

Many years ago, she died near the top of a hill.

Killed on the B...

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In shadows creeping, perfume fades to grey, 
the scent of memories drifts like autumn leaves, 
each whisper of laughter slipping away, 
replaced by echoes of forgotten dreams.

What once brought joy now ignites a spark of dread, 
as familiar faces blur in the twilight, 
the advice of friends, once a comforting thread, 
now tangled in a fog that swallows the light.

I fear the stories bur...

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The date is October 31
Well I'll be a son of a gun
You know what I mean
Scream scream It's Halloween
I'm living a nightmare
Caught in a dream
Scream Scream It's Halloween

The working day is nearly done 
Dusk falls and night is on the way
I walk fearfully through the gloom
Hope I'm going to be okay
I cut through the graveyard
And get a creepy spooky feeling
I trip over and fall acros...

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Corinthians

                  ‘(I was the wasp. She says).’

     “What is the meaning of these, ramblings;-

  “The meaning in this waffle, this drivel and dialogue???”

    what is the portent and calamity,

        fiction and faction – these slow mundane

   laborious stalemate enquiries?”

     I am to lose mind or, patience,

gratitude or, satiate?

  Is my ...

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So far the mind has been just fine,

So bizarre that it took so much time,

So it seems as if I am beyond the ryme,

So far away from the crime. 

Backed away from the dystopian future,

Made my way back alive from the suture,

I can't fly but my cape sure is super,

As a winner I miss certain parts of the loser. 

It took so much more than a...

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Miracle of Life.

In a moment of passion on a hot summer’s night.

Here starts the wondrous journey of human life.

The passion builds to the point of no return.

A climatic explosion and the release of sperm.

Thousands of them pushing, shoving, swimming frantically.

A couple might make the journey, for the others death is their destiny.

The inevitable elimination of the...

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Thought I'd get it in early, as I'll be out tommorrow.

A greeting in Irish

Beannacht i nGaeilge

Oíche Shamhna Shona Daibh!

/Ee-ha How-na hunna ghweev/ (In Phonetics)

Happy Halloween!

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Cold enters the Body.

An invasive. force 

Suceeding in seducing

Muscles and Bones.

At the same time,  it

Invigorates and excites.

The Wind is gentle  both

Hot and Cold, caressing 

Faces and kissing lips.

Coats hug the skin

Comforting the body.

As a Mother embraces

And protects her Child.

The intermittent sun's rays

Stroke faces gently,

Whispering softly...

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With harvest safely gathered in

this Hallows Eve, the dead will rise

to haunt the homes of kith and kin

with echoes of the bean sí’s cries.

Then fearful folk will all withdraw,

and leave outside their sacred gift,

remaining safe from tooth and claw

of spectral shades who cross the rift.

Deep in the throes of Samhain’s night,

when terror pounds the panicked brea...

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The clocks have gone back

I take to the floor

dancing an old time waltz

out of step head in a spin

unprepared for nature's course

like tea at the Ritz or a ballroom blitz

i'm taken over the top

the Dance of the Hours is dragging behind

i'm feeling a major flop. 

My body clock is all to cock

my timing is out i'm all upset

circadian rhythms are going in cir...

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O what a world we have,

Or the world which have

Us;

Sent some 

total population to grave;

How naive 

Was I,

 not to understand, 

It was all a lie;

Said by 

The absolute victor,

After his victory was nearby. 

We have shortcomings,

And stories that are saddening.

But it never was a reason,

To stop marching;

As if it was a treason.

What if 

 ...

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I want the days of peace and silence,

The days of kind and good looks.

The days of supportive reliance,

The Days Without War hooks.

I don't want to see the people's fears,

I don't want to speak about money.

In the world of bloody ideas

You won't hear the word "honey".

I just want to keep silent.

I don't expect the answer,

I want to live on a ...

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Just over a year since I lost my Brother.

I lost my Brother, and my poetry went with him

Words replaced by a bottomless hollow

Knowing he had no more tomorrows 

The words I needed drifted away

Like smoke adrift on the  bleakest day

Forever drowning in a sea of grey 

Amidst its melancholic sway

He enjoyed a drink, and liked a fag

But was the best big brothe...

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What is on your mind?...

I am here to be kind…

Let yourself open up…

Like a free-flowing cup…

Don’t ever feel alone…

I am here as your backbone…

Whether it is a good or bad day…

Summer, Winter, December or May…

I will always put a smile on your face…

As long as I am alive with God’s grace…

You will always be able to count on me…

My personality is very easy-going an...

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Shades of the North East past

dwarf the uninviting landscape,

in the form of charcoal clouds,

the consequence of industrial fallout

Those who once worked

the glass factory floors

ship yards and coal mines,

sit forlornly in terraced house rows

feeling void of self worth and purpose.

Where lives once filled with laughter,

at smutty workplace banter,

now lie...

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Our house is on fire like a Donna Summer remix

and I'm not much better at conveying truth...

My accents suck in both French&English :S

So I party at home with Americas' youth!

Who signed the contract for futures together

a package deal and a job delivered.

But how can I explain it won't be in vain?

That we CAN save the forests from the pouring rain!

I thought of a...

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The moon shone bright, the frost was cruel
He lived a good league hence
But here to gather winter fuel
Lest he should burn the forest fence

When Wenceslas he did espy
And cried out Sire, why walk you by
And no longer bring me pine logs hither
Ye, who would bless the poor
A Christian man, good and sure
Whose allowance he’s content to wither

Wenceslas, full of grace
Struck the peasant...

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For eons and eons

she tried to understand

good and evil,

good was easy--

so wonderful--

but evil--

why why why,

the ceaseless question.

At one point she saw a rainbow

of unconditional love

hovering above good and evil

(a glimmer of insight into the incomprehensible dichotomy!),

but still the question, 

why why why.

Finally she found something to settle in-...

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He parades as a patriot
His true nature concealed
His breast is heavy laden
He would have you believe
Great deeds (he claims) are his legacy
In the service of his country
All else is fake news

Behind the flag, a parasite
His tax returns concealed
He is the truest of men
He would have you believe
Great have been his tax contributions
Swelling the lifeblood of the nation
All else is f...

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There's no difference

 In darkness

As dark grey

Blobs united

You can't see

Our difference

When you can't

See at all

When you can't judge

Someone's shadow

You have to judge 

their soul

When all you see

Is shadows

Can you really

Judge at all

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Cats know what love is       

Cats know what love is, I’ve seen it with my eyes.                                             If you’re feeling lonely, to them It’s no surprise.                               They’ll sit and purr upon your lap, until you push them down. By which time you’ve forgotten the reason for your frown.

They are clued in from the start, as kittens seem to know. The...

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We need to find more money

On that we all agree;

But as to how to raise it

We all agree “Not Me!”.

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I was looking for someone who knew
if you listened to a story from a vulnerable heart,
your kindness would hear it too.

But this always seemed to be
the farthest you could have been
away from me.

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As I lay here in a meditative trance,

My body tingles in this weightless dance.

I feel so high, a delicious thrill,

As my spirit yields, bending to his will.

My inner self stirs, awakening slow,

Guided by a force only we both know.

Unfolding insides, a lotus in bloom,

Bathed in heat, filling every room.

From source, from him, the power streams,

Deeper he dives ...

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I am the last romantic
in the midst of digital chaos,
while love
navigates through algorithms
and bodies
become data
in the vast global network.

I still dream
of handwritten letters,
of the tangible touch
that slips between fingers
on touch screens,
where everything vanishes
with a swipe.

I sing of impossible loves,
in times of liquid loves,
where real encounters
are increasin...

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does anyone else create 
their own scenarios?

do you create whats almost 
like a movie trailer in your mind?

it has the most specific details.
everything you want plays out 
exactly as you intended.

you control what the  
other actors say,
do,
everything.

you could be walking on the beach,
then running through a flower field
the next minute.
even ziplining...

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The river runs through the lonely wood

    And on the bridge I stand,

I think about my dearly departed,

    Her ashes in my hand.

I slowly unscrew the lid from the urn

    And say my last goodbye,

I'm about to sprinkle her liberally,

   When "Stop that!" shouts this guy.

"You cannot throw your wife in the water, 

    Though it's her dying wish;

She may have ...

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I gave my all into this dhit 

I put everything I had into this bitch 

Just to get chewed up

Left dying,crying, lying in a ditch 

Painful eyes from crying 

Lonely nights, I was dying 

For all the times, I was coming up and could only afford to feed you; and not myself 

This for all the ones I left, even when u couldn’t let me be myself 

I put myself on the shelf just so u co...

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Dear, sweet empty vessel, rattling loudest;
I often wonder if you know the choice
is always yours to still that irksome voice?
Or is it when you feel at your proudest,

causing butterfly thoughts to rend the air?
Teeming morphemes tumble in profusion,
filling space between us with confusion,
thus leaving logic lost, and in despair.

It's futile having a conversation
with Dunning-Krüge...

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They call them the disruptors,

Trump and Musk and Co.

But what do they disrupt?

Not themselves, oh no!

Not their balance in the bank,

Or property portfolio.

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had me my hand me downs
and, we all know too well known
if the shoe fits wear it

nicest stuff is worn out and she wore my XXL shirt around the house
her chores, get done…
one bra in the wash and no panties on

The first steps
commemorated with expensive shoes,
soles being broken in,
a mash of burning glass,
molten sand and in it,
it’s silica content

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You got alot of nerve, stirring up mess

Churning emotions til they fester and burn

Wrecking havoc, thriving in your habitual habit

Unconcerned with the environment, leaving it in misalignment 

Antagonized by your exasperation

Declared our common enemy out of correlation

To fan out the flames of your generation

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the blue is missing from the sky today
the trees have no leaves
outside it is very cold
the wind is cruel.

there is a person
in front of me
i don't know who it is.

i remember playing out
with my sisters
with a skipping rope.

it is cold inside,
that lady told me it is morning,
that is why I stretch and yawn.

that lady said I had a visitor
i was frightened to ask:
'Wh...

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There stands Mother Nature

Stripped naked of her foliage

Old man Winter pulled a thread

From her beautiful fall dress

Slowly the patterns fell unraveled

With the colors falling to the ground

She shivers now in the coolness

Of his frosty breath of bitterness

There is no compassion from the sun

As it trails off with its warmth

Arthritic tree fingers gnarled and rig...

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Know you

Any benefits to this bewildering, barbed stumble through this dark forest into which you have brought me?

Confusing cutting beautiful song after song, always sounds the distance

                                                                                                 In a tiny flickering glimpse of thickening light

Leading me through the aftermath

I follow and follow...

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Gaza is forced onto a boundless stage,

A spectacle of endless conflict,

In a world where roles are chosen by power

Trump says, "Welcome to the show!" 

He knows his role, he knows his lines, 

Staging a political performance beneath the guise of humanity

Upon the stage owned by the United Nations, 

They send hollow promises to Gaza, 

Leaving them choking in the ...

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Orgreave (Truth & Justice)

Standing on a picket line in 1984

Orgreave on a summer’s day, we all knew the score

I am just an honest man, I never broke the law

Until the law tried to break me and now I’m not so sure

Orgreave Truth and Justice

Will never go away

The coppers broke the law

So the coppers have to pay

In a court of British law

It’s time we had our ...

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Get yourself a lump of marble

Twenty feet by six by six

Borrow a set of chisels

Or buy them from Screwfix

Empty out your garage or outdoor store

Of furniture and kids’ bikes from ceiling to floor

Grab yourself a mallet

Michelangelo liked wood

And get stuck in whilst listening to Johnnie B Goode

With every blow you will release

The body shape within

From a...

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An early Autumn breeze
Thickens under your cap
Past nine on the coast
Ripping across the square
Near your home
Pushing you slightly around
The edge of the beach
In between the twin hotels
Back up the lanes,

Collecting snapshots
Rattling on Marios
With silhouettes on the horizon
Mirroring the events beyond
Dreaming impossible words
Over barrels of leaves
Swirling around the water
...

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Hello, can you hear me?

I'm writing so you can see me

Type type type

My words are ripe

Without a thought or planning

An idea is hatching

Could it be good, could it be sad?

Only time will tell

If I can make it sell

Down in my basement, I type away

Day after day, I hear them say

As if I'm stone deaf

Without words, I'm dumbdead

So many profiles, f...

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How does one move on from betrayal and grief?

Resources swear "follow these steps to find relief".

Accept the hurt, embrace the pain,

Choose to trust your partner and learn to love again.

I'm convinced this advice comes from people who just don't know,

That being betrayed by the person you least expected to hurt you, hinders your ability to grow.

I accepted the hurt, I embra...

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It is incredible,

How so small of stares - often end up,

Giving the most enchanting moments to some souls.

The subtle strokes,

Made by those chestnut pupils,

A placid feeling in my heart it instills.

The sun gleamed on every one of these streaks,

Unravelling, the depth with which our eyes meet.

His eyes glittering more than the stars,

And glinted in the sun, like sh...

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i hate this empty house. 

beneath every floorboard,
a void
a yaw of wretched midnight 
clawing footsteps, pacing
and pacing
echoes banging
barbed and noosed
by nothing 

and the only thing louder 
than the bathroom fan I never turn off
than the drip of a sink, the tick of the gas stove
than the sleepless train yards and slick black streets
than the desperate, hollow orgasms in a co...

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Their branches proud above the town

like men in rank, their feet in mud,

skyward facing they can't look down

their roots fixed in this land of blood.

And onward, over fields and seas

men wrenched their hearts too far from home,

mere saplings who would not make trees

but from whose seed a nation's grown.

Across the green, the cenotaph

its lonely stone, rain...

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Her song, sung in a sing-song pitch

Musically hemmed with a Giocoso stitch

Chords played Staccato in different keys

Rapid Toccata, stylistically free  

As a young boy, she was my first violin

The major key to performing life as it begins

Dancing carefree, rhythmically to her beat

Tunes of the sixties, nostalgically on repeat

The unison of love, my Mother's embrace

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A new neighbour called Pat moved in next door,

Round her house she took me for a tour.

She introduced me to four of her cats,

Their surnames were written on their hats.

Alogue,Erpillar,Astrophy and Aract.

Where did you get those names I did react.

"Oh those are their surnames " said Pat, 

"All their first names are Cat"

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On some days, you’ll be the new moon,
On others, full and bright—
May you come to understand,
You’ll always guide the night,
You have always been enough, and always will be.

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You needed cough syrup
cause you caught a cold
i had some free time
in my really busy day
and immediately i thought:
I'll buy him cough syrup. 
I don't have a lot of money
but he deserves it!

i wanted to buy a snack
a little treat for me
i wanted something sweet
to tell myself i was good
but inside the supermarket 
i was so indecisive 
that i took nothing at all.
Maybe i didn't de...

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                                Whiskey in a Teacup 

S​he walks with grace, her steps a gentle rain,
A whisper in the wind, yet a storm contained.

Her presence feels like fine whiskey's warm embrace,
The kind of beauty that disrupts the world's pace.

Her aura pulls, like a magnet of soul,
An invitation to lose all control.

Eyes like honey, with a dangerous glow,
Her warmth is ...

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Montessa the Mighty is out of sorts.

Shame, I was hoping to see her in shorts,
and learn from that little woman how to curse.

Why, her mum said she even swore at the nurse,
after emerging from the womb.

What a bundle of fun is that lady,
who hails from the land of Eternal Cloud.

It is rumoured she once showed that father of psychology,
Sigmund Freud, the sights of her home city of ...

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I wish from my problems I could be free,
And with contentment sail eternity.
I wish from all my troubles I could say goodbye,
And out of my window see them fly.

I wish my every day would be filled with hope,
And whatever happens know that I shall cope.
I wish during each day I'd be respected,
And not be forgotten, nor be neglected.

I wish that no more would I be bored,
And not again b...

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Quick behind a keyboard a screen to protect him

Without a thought my reply did affect him

Why are you offended by my opinion he asked 

He knew that I knew his words just a mask

Scars from llifetimes of many a broken promise 

Plated served. . in the same breath taken from us 

I feel you invisible brother faceless friend Pattern changes now resolving healing on the m...

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If they’re not sniffin’ they’re riffin, they’re siftin’  through

sniffin’  riffin, and siftin’  through

Rejecting the pressed, injected mold

'Cos the only one they want is old.

The clicks and hisses turn them cold,

No-one listens to the music.

But 180g don’t make it sound

As good as the 252 to town

Buy it, bag it, turn around

Home to listen to the music.

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A jesting world

Nesting beneath

A veil of ignorance,

Sensing the comeuppance

Yet washing hands

Of facts bearing fruit, 

For what use

Are mummified truths

Cradled deep within

The bosom of the cosmos,

When but the next blink

Can lead straight

To the very next

Comforting conceit?

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We're the clowns and the fairies

We're the addicts and the crazies

We're someone, everyone walked by.

We're the hookers and the pimps

We're the dealers and the imps

We're someone, everyone ignored.

We're the homeless and the beaten

We're the criminals and the creepers

We're someone, everyone despised.

We're the pests and the stalkers

We're the mutts and...

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My soul has turned to ash,
Scattered across the ground,
Trampled by many footsteps,
Just as you crushed my heart.

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I push the knife deep into my chest.

The blood that comes serves one purpose.

To tell stories.

I dip the quill into my lifeblood.

The words spill onto pages. 

Paints a picture of loneliness, yearning.

More blood fills the page.

No matter how much blood, how many pages,

The blood continues to spill.

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For when I was lost

I gazed into you 

Like the flame of a single candle

You lit up the darkness

Kept the beauty of light alive

But as I gazed too long

Your glow began to melt

And then the light went

Not in you, but me

Your soul within mine

The touch not of a burn 

The glint not of a flame

But the sleek of a mirror 

I can see in this d...

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a dog and a frog

who stood on a spoon

and went round the town

in their dressing gown

said the dog to the frog

oh lets spoon to the moon

so they jumped up and down

and the spoon left the ground

look look oh look at the moon

how truly exciting said the dog

spoon spoon we went on a spoon

would you believe it said the frog

to the moon to the moon

t...

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A moment in time did happen once.

                It was there and then it was no more!

Like a fickle wind that took a chance,

                To raise a head, but was gone before!

I would mull often in vacant times.

                If such a moment did occur awhile!

Or was it something without rhymes,

                As in the whimsies of a juvenile!

As ephemeral...

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Today I looked at my mirror image and didn’t turn away.

I scanned my face and physique without any harmful thoughts.

Taking an interest in the fabric that I wear, not the skin beneath it.

Seeing myself as a complex creature, not a simple sex doll.

Admiring the way my hair falls around my face and my necklace matches my earrings.

How my blue eyes stand out submerged in eye shadow and...

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I stand before the threshold 

Of the dire circumstantial area,

Where the scent of curable drugs

Gives me a feeling of nausea. 

The long white corridor giving 

Room to sick and sickened patients,

Simultaneously tests the patience

Of related hearts living in suspence.

While the projected monitor-beeps

Fail to needfully and steadily beat,

Death nearly arrives a...

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Warily, gently, apprehensively, she peers. 

A sun beam strokes her face. 

She pauses, puzzled by its tenderness. 

Bearings regathered, she persists. 

Steadfast and undeterred. 

Soft melodies begin whispering to her. 

A faint breeze draws her into a sweet embrace. 

She rests atop an emerald blanket. Fresh aromas tickle her nose. 

A realisation strikes. 

This is comfort. 

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how many times did we justify a scar
because we love the person
holding the knife?
how many times did we equate
a deep cut with equally deep love?
how many times did we convince ourselves that if anyone was allowed to hurt us,
it should be them?

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I close my eyes and you're here

Your smile is contagious

I can't stop smiling back

You have that knack

of making me blush as well.

I never blush this much unless

you're near.

Heck, you have made me blush

in person

on video chat

and a few times in our texting

You have a power over me

that is undeniable.

Now all alone in my room

thinking of your smile

thi...

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Blue dress high heels and pursed lips

Stand underneath the tree

Watching waiting ever vigilant waiting for him to arrive

She straightens her hair for the fifteenth time

Checks her phone

The hours’ worth of make up on her face

That begins to melt

The promise she wants to keep

That simply can’t wait

She begins to question was this a good idea

But Wednesday was their day

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You hold their tiny hands 
When a child is born there is so much love
"It's a boy". Cool. I love men
Got me thinking about the cycle they talk about in the Lion king
How something dies and becomes grass and you can't outrun the past
Everything becomes nothing and yet stays something
But I saw his little hands were opening and closing
Yours were cold and rigid, blue and not moving

Th...

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learning to confess
fond is fondly confess
confess fondly confess
confession rise to a confession
confession rise to be evil
learning to be evil
learning to be fondly

evil confess evil
evil confess fondly
evil is fondly evil
evil is a learning evil
evil is a learning confession
a signature of evil is a signature of a confession
a signature of evil is a signature of learning

learn...

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Imagine the feeling of love,

The feeling of belonging,

The feeling of a grand warmth,

That caresses with its tender strokes

The feeling of a fire that blazes so earnestly within

but is careful not to burn so deep

Lest  it hurts the heart to which one belongs.

I hope to one day experience and not imagine,

A love with the man for whom I was crafted, 

From whom a rib w...

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the moon was lower in the sky once. 

i saw it scream bright above my head. 

my arms hurt when i see it now,

im far away from myself and the world. 

so far away ive forgotten how to look at the moon.

i worry about the moon, im worried ive forgotten how to see.

what if one day i look around and everything has gone black.

and i forget how to be. 

i found myself so young and fo...

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If our grandparents left their house, 
we'd miss the Autumn evening drive
to there after school on Fridays,
down the road where people rarely
discover their way to the village with
thirty-five locals, still quite hidden & remote.

We'd miss the night's clouds on
silent stained glass of the village
Church as it greets us just before 
the flare of trees & village green
is still distinguis...

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Soliloquy No 33 -  To Eat or to Heat – version 3

To eat or to heat. We’re here again. Just different women, different men

who rode into power, drove the Tories out. Your support shouting loud

and clear. Your stories of malfeasance and incompetence ringing in the

electorates’ ears, singing of change. New angels for the red wall.

Your chancellor so much to prove, full of ideas to red...

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When writing becomes lonely

Your girlfriend or boyfriend, friends and family won't understand

You aren't neglecting them, you're simply just feeding your soul, doing what you love

They won't understand

You're just surviving.

When you're holed up in your spare bedroom with a computer or in the basement with a laptop, or even sitting in your car on your phone, writing for hours.

Th...

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I stood on those rocks....
Watching the magic unfold in front of me...
Those golden streaks...
Those wisps of light spun in gold...
Those hues of orange, amber...
The waves caressing the Sun...
The clouds embracing it...
The Sun loving every moment...
I living the very moment...
The cold wind doesn't bother me...
The warmth of what I see makes me come alive...
This moment in time...capt...

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You laid it down before me
Stuck the dollar in my nose
Got me breathing fast
Had me feeling trashed

One dose had me down
One hit and I begged for more
One more hit
One more kiss
One more line
One more night
Until my body went cold

Laced with poison
You decieved me
Lied about what you sold
And now I can't shake this crave
I can't shake this pain
I can't shake you from my brain

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The perfumed rose of summer is now distant

The barricades of winter have fallen

Revealing crystal fields

Still in the morning sun

Alert the doe breathes clouds 

That mix in the mist

Sabre Rooks pick on the bones of earth at it falls asleep 

Soundly keeping its council until spring.

Panic prevails for safe winter havens 

Some will not wake from their slumber 

succumbed...

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Cowboy erotica removes its Stetson

Eyes of ghost strangers

Sleep like silent fish forks.

don’t eat me, I’m not a pig

My coat isn’t thick enough in the winter

terrifying shop keepers

TAKE THE STAIRS INSTEAD OF THE LIFT

PIG PIG PIG – Bacon Butty anyone?

I ruminate on only blood and brain to haunt

the boneyard of my dreams

drinking a sunset in a spri...

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All what one expects, gets served in contrast
Usurping the applecart, leaving utterly aghast

In just split of a second has the tables turned
Usually taken in stride, gets abruptly spurned

Own comforting environs get visibly torn apart
Pushing over the brink, to reinvent and restart

Hoping sun to shine, but pelts down with rain
Simplest of the chores, now one can't sustain

Just wh...

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The phone rings and that is my mom from home saying it’s gonna be tough, tears start running down your face, uncertain coming times await, the stars tell me you’re far from me, in the land of eternal life, now you see me from the high, that feeling in your bones makes you realize you lost somebody you love.

When you lose somebody, you’ll cry for the rest of your life.

When you lose somebody,...

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All my ends are loose 

Not allowed to tie a noose 

All my ends are loose 

Feel like I'm playing duck duck gooose and I'm the goose 

Running around in circles 

Trying to grab attention

All my ends are loose 

Wish I could just choose 

Choose to live or die 

But I end up silent and start to cry

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The term "woke" has been the subject of discussion about its meaning  The following may assist

those who are confronted with the word.

Wokeness is the ideology that enables people to hide behind a wall of false virtue, preaching

acceptance, equality and diversity of opinion - at the same time that they simultaneously attack,

cancel and destroy anyone who offends them.

(Basically, it...

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Dark Mysterious 

Who are you?

I know your body

But do I know you?

Passionate, Sexy, Sensually Slow

Sultry, Slippery - is all i know 

I know your skin, as if my own

Yet there is so much still unknown

Stolen moments, hundreds of hours alone 

Yet so few words are truly spoke

Your smell, your touch, your taste 

All stowed in memory for times alone 

Whispered words, ...

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Breathe, Eric.

Breathe.

Breathe, before the storm sets in

Breathe, before the anger takes over

Breathe, before you lose control.

You don't have to be the monster 

But you have a long way to go 

If you want to calm the storms 

Because the rage 

Does not give up so easily.

These battles are fought one at a time 

We must fight for happiness 

A battle, to keep the p...

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***WARNING*** the following content contains themes of self-harm and may be sensitive to some audiences. The content below is not deemed suitable for children.

***the content below is an excerpt and lacks context. Read at your own discretion***
 

V.01 "raw from author" edit. 
 

The scene was a collapse of the mind. It was no fit of rage, or some unfounded self-torture; the boy had ...

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I don’t want to mask my poetry

I want you to understand me

Curse your perfect rhythms, rhymes, haikus

Your lyricism, your literary

When I try to adopt it, I turn mute.

Something channels through me

(I’ve never really found the root)

A demanding stream of consciousness

That cannot stop to breathe, let alone

Wait, conceptualise, draft, redraft

I can’t!

...

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I’m sick of this body
Sick of this dysphoria. 
Sick of wearing 8 layers in 96 degree heat just to feel less insecure.
I want to be free.
I want to be me.
I want to be free from these consequences of growing up.
Free from the blood being forced to spill out of me, staining every piece of clothing with nothing but a cruel reminder of the body I was given. The body I’m stuck with.
Free from wh...

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I’ve never liked this world

So much 

To be fair 

It’s not the world

That’s to blame 

It’s the people 

I’ve always felt

A sense of meanness 

Hidden behind 

Or inside them 

And so 

I guess

I just thought 

People 

As a 

Species 

Weren’t 

Particularly 

Nice

But now 

As I look back 

Or maybe 

It’s just 

Where I’m at

Maybe it isn’t 

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She stood staring,   
the golden glaze glinting,  
as sweet as her dreams,  
but too heavy for her father's pocket.  
With tears tracing paths down her cheeks,  
she walked home,  
hoping that one day,  
the doughnut would be hers,  
just hers to eat.  

Eyes heavy with sleep,  
that night, dreams danced  
of a doughnut as grand  
as a merry-go-round.  
Round and round she spun,...

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Simple solutions 

Sucky situations 

Short to temper 

The red hot heat

To form the blade

To smash the atom

Your nose

Against the grind stone

To find the discipline 

In the art

Mastering 

Upon the razers edge

Kissed by the light

Weightless

Permeating 

From the heart

To start 

Love

Is at hand

Take 

The plunge

Swim

The stormy sea

Tal...

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'Tales from the Rainbow Nation' Linda Cosgriff has a book launch at Stockport Art Gallery at 2pm Saturday 5th October 2024.

Seriously devoted

Positive words count

Outstanding writer

Determination never falters

Poetry flows

Like no other.

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Parallax  

Something clicked
it felt automatic 
didn’t have to think
I just lived it 

like a secret wish 
a wet daydream 
waking up to be 
just what you wanted

If you give me every pleasure 
you’ll get it all back 
all the time forever
there’s never a catch 

somewhere somehow 
I’ll feel it again 
even if it’s the last thing I do 
it’s why I exist

like we’re going places 
...

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The Language We All Know

Hola

Labas

Sveiki

Ahoj

Talofa

Merhaba

Salut

Oi

A flood of colours 

A sea of sounds

Every kind of footstep

Forges a unique track on the ground

I believe it is true

Yet it sounds almost absurd

That one can communicate a hundred things- through their face and hands

And verbalising just a single word

Our ea...

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You’re imperfect, and maybe that’s why I try. 

Digging for secrets inside all of your lies.

I wish you could see yourself in spite of this new guise.

Disregard all of your pride, it’s time to set this right.

In the spirit of love, we both paid the fine.

The tithe, whatever helps you sleep at night.

In the spirit of us, I felt you lost your drive.

You felt I lost a high, new vi...

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I believe I can do great

It might not be excellent; But to attain success I would wait

My life would go vain, if I descend

Being 1% better makes me radiant

Today I might not understand the notion

But putting an effort can help to grasp the emotion

Tomorrow is the time for me to glint

If i progress with precautions, I will be the star which blinks

My belief makes me unique

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It’s always better to leave things untold,  

A story without a final page,  

It gifts the reader a rush,  

An edge of their seat, filled with wonder,  

What could have been?  

That’s the magic of writing,  

To leave trails of mystery,  

Don’t wrap it all up,  

Let the reader roam in thoughts,  

Keeping their hearts racing,  

Curiosity glowing like a firefly.  

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