I hide
I hide behind my shine smile
I hide behind my ocd and cleaning haddits
A addict that's me
Full of fear and a huge need to succeed but a great haddit of fucking it Al up
So complex and conflicted so willing to please
Oh I hide behind by perfect Hazel eyes
Behind my cigarette smoke
Please don't get to close
You might just find a boy with no piece feeling like his no plac...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 10:29 pm
GUN LAW
The comforting feel of a blued steel weapon does it every time
the solid trust you put in it.
the protection it affords
the ownership is where it starts
takes you all the way
we ain't gonna let that go, no way Jose.
It's what we was brought up with
it's about what we won't put up with
it's a territorial thing we take up arms,
when a situation develops where others ...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 8:51 pm
Also by ray pool:
FALSE WIDOW - THE SEQUEL | WAR CHANT |The Chisel
I stood and watched my dad, entranced,
as he chiselled a hole into a table's leg.
The chisel was a wand in this strong man’s hand,
As he strove to make that table stand.
His hammer met the chisel’s head, precisely,
Time after time, and time after time again,
carving and slicing into the wood’s bright grain.
Until he brusquely brushed the shavings away,
Like a conjuror ...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 8:47 pm
Also by John Botterill:
A Golf Lesson | History is Bunk | J.G.Barwell's Radio Show | An Elegy from a Malton Graveyard | Rillington Motorbike Club | Reunion | Early Learning |Relatively Speaking
So many tragic events have occurred
For reasons we cannot conjure a clue
That someone from the future has never intervened
Tells me time travel can never be true
Wednesday 30th November 2022 8:17 pm
Late Knight Shopping
Late Knight Shopping
When the gallant, valiantly
Do battle with the crowds
Wednesday 30th November 2022 7:50 pm
A disturbance
Enter my world,
your very presence,
changes everything.
Potentials and propensities
merge, mould, into:
she is not a fixture,
she is a fitting
in my world,
She flutters, flings, flummoxes,
acquires the shape of the word.
eyes sparkle —
as I burn the last volume
of poems.
Eternal signs sigh over the ashes.
Letters tell of nightmares,
stone slabs become monster-statues
created by a...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 6:47 pm
Also by John E Marks:
SURVIVAL | Poetry or Philosophy? | A satire of sorts | A place of recovery | SNOW WHITE STARS | Suti | Lotta Continua. | A loving heart is truest wisdom | Gérard Manley Hopkins SJ | Towards the year's midnight | The Unpurged Images of Day | A Victorian Saturday Night | Empty | Blank slate | Winter of my Heart | Broken vessel | A permanent loss of happiness | Another place, another time | DRINKING WHERE THE RIVER BED IS DRY | The Swan with two Nicks | icons of the sun | Al Andalusia | As I rise, so will I burn | DAY OF THE DEAD - November 2, 2022 |A franchise on my soul
I felt that my life was diminished
My smallest of dreams, suppressed
There stood before me a man of conviction
Asserting that I need not feel oppressed.
Like the pied piper he whistled, I listened
Of ancient arcadia, his land of hope
Where I could escape the rigours of conformity
That hung around my neck like a rope
Simply cradle in the soft arms of Morpheus
Safe, fro...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 5:04 pm
Also by JD Russell:
Hope For Our Love | The Hairdressers Tale | Anxiety | The Minder | RAF Swinderby | Stay with me | One, Two, Three, More | No more the fool |A father for us all
‘You’ve got a bum and a tum now!’ Remarked an old flame,
who’d changed her profession from social worker to children’s magician.
‘You might be greyer of hair,’ she said with a wink,
‘but I remember when you were as thin as a lath,
and though your raggedy existence has aged you somewhat,
you’re now strong, like a put-out-to-grass ox,
if you’ll forgive my back-handed compliment.’
She lau...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 5:03 pm
Also by Kevin Vose:
A truly Christian daughter | Young Dan | What makes us human? | A dreaming man | Here's to you, Mary Lou |Day of Death
The neighbour's cat
brought a mouse into our garden
four limbs twitching
And from that jaw, those claws
I performed a rescue
but it was all for naught
and I tucked that little life
on the compost stack
hoping it found a comfy spot
to shuffle off
Out walking that same afternoon
on the pavement, on the path
a squirrel who'd tried to fly
but kissed the curb
such a sad sight
as I stro...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 4:33 pm
Also by Tom:
If It Rains... | Gentleness |Eons traversed
I have this feeling I know you so.
But not from this life or time line no.
It must be from lifetimes past one or two.
On mystical timelines as we traveled the cosmos through.
You ask how I know well, just call it a hunch.
Every time we chat my heart beats faster and I start to miss you a bunch.
On this plane of existence in this linear timeline.
We meet as strangers, aware at...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 4:23 pm
Also by Danny Giesbrecht:
the signs of a true leader |Pictures in Frames
As I amble through my days
people I love are no longer here,
but they frequently return to me
in unexpected moments
The memories often repeating
These keepsakes of them
alight in my thoughts
and find purchase in a smile
Keeping them close to me
on a cold seashore in winter,
in my dark hours with hit-and-run rain,
and in pictures in frames
still tellin...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 3:31 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
Early Morning in Yosemite | The Suitcase | If | Thanksgiving, 2009 |Hallo Nederland!
In our Lancashire home, in our Lancashire home,
We speak with a Lanky Twang ever so rare,
We’ve got some wet moorlands exceedingly bare,
If you want a few Mountains, we've got some to spare,
In our Lancashire home.
En Vrolijk Kerstmis!
Wednesday 30th November 2022 12:41 pm
Perfect
Life is perfect but am not,
I just hope for the next big thing.
“This is perfect” is nothing but a theory,
A life on a TV screen is nothing but a lie too.
Show me a different perspective,
Where are mistakes accepted?
Irrespective of what I say
And do, is nothing but life
The next big thing to die for,
Is breathing my last breath.
Live for what you want, not
What yo...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 7:44 am
2022 Trev finally gets to Texas: A long time comin': Part 4 Midland to McAllen
Image: "The Beast" outside Clarks on arrival, I'd made really good time mainly due to the roads being surprisingly clear, and The Beast having plenty of power. In the background is The Royal Standard Clark flew to celebrate my arrival and let others know I was there. He is pictured in the backgound with his friend Blanca
23.11.22 – 90) Alarm rings I wake to find last nights events sti...
Wednesday 30th November 2022 1:48 am
Also by Trev the Road Poet:
2022 Trev finally gets to Texas: A long time comin': Part 4 Midland | 2022 Trev finally gets to Texas: A long time comin': Part 3 Austin to Midland | 2022 Trev finally gets to Texas: A long time comin': Part 2 Austin | 2022 Trev finally gets to Texas: A long time comin': Part 1 The Journey Out |The Things I Carry
You told me once when we talked about the things we carried
That I was a little too vague
And I thought then, and still do now
That it's because I'm a little too vague
The things I carry aren't set in stone
They are abstract and unsure and hard to put to words
They are feelings and thoughts only half-formed
They are like lines of a poem never quite heard
So, I carry the snippets of long-he...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 11:33 pm
Also by Key Snow:
This One Is For Every Friendship Lost |Serendipity.
Serendipity found me
On this cold, lacklustre dawn
Her gracious hand reached out
And she wrapped me
In good fortune
What a gift she gave!
She followed me so joyously
As she sang her unexpected tune
Such that sent the clouds adrift
And made the flowers bloom
She pushed away the night’s long slumber
She usurped the fading moon
Her arrival breathe...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 8:59 pm
Also by Clare:
My Pen doesn't Flutter |Country Life
Metropolitan Man wears the mask of the commuter.
Faces Today's challenges via trusty computer.
Odd, him looking down from a mountain top.
Wholely beautiful, there is a lake of silver
perfectly still but for a distant man
ant-busy at the edge.
A fisherman's son of an age
with the work-wear swaddling him,
the jumble of tired equipment
and ...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 8:06 pm
Also by Adam Whitworth:
The Musician's Bleeding Fingers | News | On The Plus Side | An Age Thing | Spanish Guitar | Wider World | Dreamer To Dreamer Speaks | Your Humble Poet | The Luminous Poets | Latest Developments | Piano |words
words
clumsy wrong
insistent strong
quiet along
turn
centre unfold
shedding collapse
feeling relapse
heart synapse
syntax
maths
counting circles
cycles mooning
waiting hold
biting lips
biting teeth
biting you
bleeding me.
(2021)
Tuesday 29th November 2022 8:03 pm
Also by nicola van straaten:
circley | into it it | strength | V | you can breathe easy | don't despair | right here on the edge |every night
it’s really hard to sleep in a cold bed.
with every move the cold screams , “you’re alone!”
no one to hold & no one holding you.
you don’t exist - you’re unknown
to this harsh world and ,
yet , full of love & warmth ,
every night , it’s the same pattern.
every night , the cold shocks the skin.
every night , you recall the fact that you are alone.
the bed laughs as you ...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 7:41 pm
Hint Of Skullduggery
A beautiful, serene start to the day
with the slightest hint of skullduggery
Early, eerie mist paints a picture
with the coral like silhouette of a tree
The sun is simmering against the clouds
from the depths gentle wisps are reaching out
The most wonderful way to start the day
of that, I’m sure no one could ever doubt
Photo credit Dr Amir Khan
Tuesday 29th November 2022 4:50 pm
Also by julie callaghan:
Crimson Leaves | Recharge | Brain Freeze | Misty Sunrise | Robin | Soupy Abyss | Cumbrian Forest | Depths Of Autumn | Fiery Heavens | Delicate Sunrise | The Simple Things | Goldfinch | Last Hurrah | Standing Still | Gold Confetti |No More War!
The generals fry in their fat,
The spokesman spouts his usual junk;
The sergeant’s barking will fall flat,
The new recruit has trashed his bunk.
The rumpus at the front is still;
Noise of mortal combat ceases.
Exhausted soldiers, trained to kill,
Break their weapons into pieces.
They hug their foes and swap their hopes
Of lives soon filled with joy and art;
...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 4:33 pm
Also by Stephen Gospage:
The Lowest of the Low | Rough Sleeper | Przewodow | Luxury | Mykolaiv Zoo | A Song for Ukraine | Armageddon |Prayer
I don't know how to reach you
my darling
as you suffer & self-destruct
-- & so I turn to prayer.
I can't re-arrange this
I can't soften this
I can't solve this
--& so I turn to prayer.
How do I pray my darling?
Waves & waves of love,
waves & waves of forgiveness,
waves & waves of hope.
Oh may these waves reach you
my darling
& wash over you
with blessin...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 4:27 pm
Also by Hélène:
Angel Wings | Getting Help | Like Water | Divine | Her Prayer Beads | Balance | Holiday Gathering | Meeting the Day | Live in the Light | Freedom | Learning to Shift | Oh How I Love! | Opening | Cocooned | Arriving & Leaving | Little Boat | Nap Time | Keep Trying | House to House | Winds | Good Enough | The Long Journey | In Our Hearts | This Moment | Learning to Sew | Movement | Break Through | Cleaning House | Rain | An Army of Angels | A Day | Cat | Silence of the Hummingbird | I Am (affirmation poem) | As Far Back As You Can | Morning Air |Complainers Complaint
The complainers complaint
is a constant refrain
"Woe is me -points-
they're all to blame!
I'm squeezed in the middle
by those with no name
pity me not them
they're all to blame!
why don't they just send 'em
all off to jail?
give to me not to them
coz they want the same,
give to me not to them
coz they're all to blame
them paki's and blacks
them poles and the lame
the u...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 1:59 pm
Also by Tommy Carroll:
Ancient Ruin | Recollection |always moving, dont get too attached.
immediately after i finish a book i have to start another.
rinse and repeat. always moving. don’t get too attached.
i worry that if i don’t pick up another book immediately i may never do so again
i fear i’ll become forever lost in the chasm
grasping for characters who’s stories have ended and unable to move onto the next
if i didn’t fear the nothingness i could learn m...
Tuesday 29th November 2022 2:43 am
Irretrievably lost
Noxious gasses bleed the sun,
The gashes in arms feed the blossum,
Feathers fell and dug down deep,
Never more forgetting,
The cauldron falls in cornered lips,
The building bustle in the stream,
Castrated the cow and godless famine,
The death of the poor did bring a smile,
Another day and other shallow,
Wading in the depths of despair.
Tuesday 29th November 2022 12:21 am
Also by Alita Moore:
Imaginary Children |Critical
Imagine freedom being tied
To how far you can run
Be it from a gun,
your mum
Running from expectations
You're acting like a bum
Someone's son
To succumb to banal pleasures
You bum
Experienced pleanty these few years
But yet still
A master of none
The cat has 9 lives
You live to tell one tale
You've been given plenty of opportunities
And yet you fai...
Monday 28th November 2022 10:30 pm
Also by Jamal Buchanan:
Excess |TAINTED
Tainted words are like shadows
Amid your weak sunny days
Tainted dreams are like the mud
On your black patent leather shoes
You cannot walk towards your hope
Having these sorrowful feet
And with a barefaced kind
Of friend hidden on your mind
Tainted whispers are like a curse
With the promises you've broken
Maybe a thousand times
A sudden storm taints the breeze
...
Monday 28th November 2022 7:55 pm
Wrong Spaces
I am, he thought, not where I want to be
Or should be, I feel misplaced
Lost, a missed opportunity.
My frame has drifted far away from me
The faded space is left to see,
The hook is still there, no hanging now, but empty.
My square peg has been hammered
Into this round hole.
My lines are stammered, fluffed my starring role
The curtain falls,
An open goal is scuffed,,
...Monday 28th November 2022 6:52 pm
Also by mike booth:
To be young again |Don't Mess With Your Elders
Kidder?? your right wing commentary
Means nothing to me.
I could metaphorically-
Punch out your teeth
With a single blow.
So?
If you *see* that I'm middle aged
It should persuade
You
To *not* think you can troll
This mid-50's Barbie doll.
You're an amoeba
Brained jerk
Who lurks
In 'moms' basement.
The encasement
Of your brain
With the hardened c...
Monday 28th November 2022 6:50 pm
Also by Jo Callisto:
Elon Musk Smells Of Wee | Imprint | Tangles | Hideous Gomphidius | I'm In Hell | There's No YOU There | Can You Just Not | This Isn't The Way | Revenge Of Pancake Man | Hope | Why Is Donald Trump? | Wavelengths | Wavelengths |THE PUTIN SYNDROME
Beware of short men in positions of power
Looking for ways to make their mean weeds flower.
Hurrying and harrying the gullible that we see go.....
Following the long legs of a monstrous ego.
..................................................................................
Monday 28th November 2022 2:33 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
PUTIN AND SOLDIERS' MOTHERS | YOU ARE THE MUSIC | A QUESTION OF DISCRIMINATION | TURNING THE CLOCKS BACK |Any other Winners of this particular competition on Write Out Loud?
http://culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/4122-the-shouting-tories
In all my years of writing bad poetry and doggerel, never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that I would be one of the 5 winners in an Award Anthology but that is exactly what has happened and I was stopped by police (for this is a police state) running so fast to the Building Society to pay the cheque for ...
Monday 28th November 2022 9:37 am
Also by Red Button:
The Moon as a Fishing Buoy in Bermo |baggage claim delay
Monday 28th November 2022 8:56 am
Also by Red Brick Keshner:
negotiable leave | new car | where might you be? | irreconcilably different? | ode to Phillis Wheatley | fallen | sea change | seasonalities | in there somewhere was goodbye |FAIRY LIGHTS
Before you put them away neatly coiled last year you checked them and they worked.
You took them out this year and they have inextricably entangled themselves; and they don’t work.
You wonder why, but you needn’t. The answer is in the name, Fairy Lights. It is, of course, the fairies who make them work.
But where ever there are fairies there are hobgoblins and it is their work to s...
Sunday 27th November 2022 9:21 pm
Also by John Coopey:
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM | THE RELUCTANT MONARCHIST | BIG JUD ET AL | GREGGS VOUCHERS | INVISIBLE | THE LINE AND SQUARE | MY FIRST... | MINOR SIN |The significance of a pillow
You adjusted the pillow so tenderly under my head while we fucked,
I had never experienced consideration like that before, it felt so intimate.
It was so humane.
You detected my discomfort and cared enough to act.
You cared.
You acted.
I admit, it was exactly what I was longing for.
I am terrified.
Now, I must wait with white knuckles, choking on my breath.
...Sunday 27th November 2022 8:36 pm
Also by M. Smith:
Intentionality |Barbara
with the last lines borrowed from Kaveh Akbar
------
Tension begins here:
My bleed/my break
the line one curves over slopes
the crevice cascading two-pulicitous over an edge
the stream of over-consciousness squelched in bliss
Return with me now,
wind humming honey
a touch filled with ache
when silence lingers in our throats
You sit with me now
distance a year ...
Sunday 27th November 2022 4:31 pm
Also by Mel:
refusal is slow |Gray Man
She holds her tongue for a gray man
with a smoking jacket and whispered I love you’s.
She holds her tongue for crumbs on countertops,
hairs on bathroom sinks, unwashed hands
and mornings with unbrushed teeth.
She holds on for passionate kisses and long embraces
that heat up to a thousand degrees under the sheets.
She presses on for those hard fought moments.
She gasps for air b...
Saturday 26th November 2022 3:19 pm
Also by kimberly:
Under the Covers | Tossed Asides |Mon amour, thy word
Mon amour, you make,
Restless; my heart,
Such things, it's heard,
Yet, what keeps me going...
Mon amour, thy word
Disguised as fine,
The Concealed jealousy,
Often seems absurd..
Yet, what keeps me going,
Mon amour, thy word
Servile ; i stayed
Waiting for you,
as the memories blurred,
Yet, what kept me going,
Mon amour, thy word
Been too fragile,
Hurt my feelings...
just as...
Saturday 26th November 2022 11:03 am
The Rona Effect
The Rona Effect
Brain that feels like hollow
Night sweats and body aches
With mash potato body to follow
Ten hours sleep
But still so hazy
Unable to focus
Like I’m halfway between hungover and crazy
Hacking cough and congestion
Mental health in question
More sleep please
Oh wait— no— I’m wired
How is my body blocking my zzzz’s
When I’m so damn ...
Saturday 26th November 2022 4:17 am
Black Sapote
is that chocolate?
Your wife is shocked that your fruit
is not chocolate.
(From a haiku poetry book 'Fruit Haiku' in development - likely to be finished in 2023 or 2024. A Black Sapote is a species of persimmon. Common names include chocolate pudding fruit, black soapapple and zapote prieto. The tropical fruit tree is native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. The common name...
Friday 25th November 2022 10:23 pm
Also by Andy N:
Charity Anthology Submissions Wanted |Defy, decay
Defy, decay
I often wonder
About the last leaf on the tree
And whether there is a leaf
That refuses to wither
To decay, to die
To remain as soft
Lissome, and lithe
As the day it first grew
On the tree
And not just a memory
Of a memory
That we hold
In a photograph
Of a love
In the first bloom of spring
And days of light
And sun without end
Long ...
Friday 25th November 2022 1:09 pm
The Wind
The sound of wind
The lights are dimmed
Watch the trees swaying side by side
Similar to an unpredictable tide
Let this wind erase your pain
Without leaving any harsh stains
The breeze brushing against your skin
Closing your eyes knowing you can win
Feeling the cold touch your body
Gazing at the clouds, since it isn’t foggy
Such a beautiful feeling inside out
Don’t ...
Friday 25th November 2022 1:05 pm
Fence line
Doves on the fence line, shedding the morning rain
Sitting in this quiet fog with me
First sleepless night in a while, but I'm more awake now
Third cigarette down, shaking cups of hot black coffee
Mornings are the best, and the worst, sometimes both at once
The roof drips staccato in the garden, old friends shedding leaves
There is something peaceful in the birds, these dying peppers in the ...
Thursday 24th November 2022 5:42 pm
Also by Patrick Kennon:
A river with no name |The Ghosts of Qatar
Can you hear a sob and wail.
In this sorry World Cup tale.
Above the roar of every goal.
Listen out for every lost soul.
Beneath the sunny Qatari skies.
Listen to their desperate cries.
How many died, it's hard to tell?
Slave labour, in conditions of hell.
In the desert heat, toiling away.
Brutal conditions, pittance of pay.
Families left to mourn and weep.
Ghosts of Q...
Wednesday 23rd November 2022 11:00 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
The Ugly Game | A Dangerous Man | One More To Begin | The Black Jelly Baby |A little girl that got lost
My dad gave me a pair of glasses when I was about 5
It confused me a little
He said, “This is the only thing you’ll ever need.”
“This will keep you as my little girl,” he said
He put it on and looked at me with a smile
With a warm one, I could see he liked it this way
I wondered back then if the warmth would cool if I took it off
but I didn’t want to find out so soon
I cou...
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 8:29 pm
Also by Lisa Harris:
Close the door | Write a happy poem she said | The one with depression | Cause I Can't Remember | the 5th kitten | Rose | Colours | You Showed Me | The unattainable spark of life | How to love thyself? | Cause I remember |Surf...
The surf gladly births
foolhardy Aphrodite,
to be dressed
in all the superlatives
of idolatry; yet
the same surf
swiftly buries Aegeus,
to be forsaken
like a postscript
within the waves
that he names;
an elemental nascence
and death's dreaded cadence,
a dichotomy of the sea,
bathing the essence
of myth after myth...
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 4:41 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Ramshackle | Nobody. |I need to see clearly now
I need to see clearly now
We are caught and entagled in a synthetic web
the recipients of fake news, the victims of deceit
Confused and bewlidered we stagger about
mentally dull and spiritually exhausted
We flounder and stumble from pillar to post
lost in a world, a web that entices and seduces us
My eyes are dimmed, my heart flags
yet resistence is only a step aw...
Monday 21st November 2022 10:46 pm
Also by keith jeffries:
In the twinkling of an eye | The Edge of Emptiness | Quiet Desperation | The River of Babylon | This War |Silent Wash
It’s a direct drive of fifty litres
From me to you.
Six hundred miles north
Until I’m resting my eyes on your face:
That soothing easy care
From the dial and touch
Of your features
The mixed fabric of your voice
Trickling through my cells.
I am freestanding
But will bloom
When you enter the room.
Until then,
I’m in this intensive
...
Monday 21st November 2022 8:49 pm
Family Tree
Her wrinkled hand took hold of his
as she sang a grand old song
Her grandson looked at it & said:
You've been in the bath too long!
She said, "Those creases are like the circles
within a wonderful tree!
It shows how long I've been around
How long that I've been me!"
There's a lot of creases there, Grandma
They've spread right up to your face!
I recko...
Sunday 20th November 2022 4:00 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
Jeepers creepers | Please Remember Me |Dreams
If there's a need to
Wake up from a dream
(If i am in one)
I'll simply close my eyes
And will go to sleep
Sunday 20th November 2022 6:48 am
Miracles do happen
It doesn't matter what you do or give to me
For I ain't expecting much from any human being.
My expectations are from my Rabb alone
Who is the king of all kings and omnipotent Lord
If it would be real, it would have happened
Whether dreams, friendship or love
Things that are fake and dramatized
Ends sooner than begun
Don't you dare expect from me that you can'...
Sunday 20th November 2022 6:03 am
Also by Ghazala lari:
Life is just a test | Envy?? | World of deception | Equine therapy | 100 years |The Stream
The Stream
Pit brown, eddies like molasses
Trout, their underbellies speckled
with mottled brown marks swim
inside a subterranean world
Ceaseless the water runs
Never the same pattern
As in life the moment passes
and can never be lived again.
Saturday 19th November 2022 5:24 pm
Payment.
No, you don't owe them a thing
But should you offer anything
I pray it be kindness.
Saturday 19th November 2022 4:02 pm
Also by Jordyn Elizabeth:
Dear Agony. | Wild Woman (17.) |Just a Thought
We grow up with fantasies in our head
"Become more", naturally I said
That is all I want for you and I
It was only borrowed time
They were only doing what was in their heads
It IS worth sharing
But can it be?
What am I becoming?
What have I said?
Can someone share this with me?
Friday 18th November 2022 9:29 pm
Idiomatic poem
Beggars aren't choosers
Only if you are a beggar
Or consider yourself one
You lose your liberties
To choose and make choices
Ships are safe in the harbours
But that's not what ships are made for
They are designed for the oceans and turbulence
So if you are comfortably cozy in your corner
Consider yourself docked for few hours
After which you have to make a...
Friday 18th November 2022 1:33 pm
Also by N.B:
Shoelaces | The tongue 👅 😋 | Until forever...... | Nostalgic winter season | The other side of the coin | See me Rise | Untitled | Don't assume nor presume |hOPe (FuLly)
We live our lives in hope
From when we’re conscious of the world ,
We hope for something we know nothing of
But what is hope
A human state , that seals our fate
Or manufactured in the brain
Or state of mind that keeps us sane
Hope is always round corner
Peeking out
A little chink that feeds the mind
Stops the world from going blind
Lifts the heart when thin...
Thursday 17th November 2022 9:02 pm
Also by Edbreathe:
Explain (again) | Autumn Knight | SLeeP |The Moon Moves the Ocean (Hope Moves Me)
i.
I wake up each morning
my mind wrapped around your body.
spiralling in an unbreakable circuit
round and round
bound by terminal planetary rings
orbiting around closed eye film trailers of you
moving through sleeps ghostly shadows
from my pillow, crawling up the wall onto the ceiling
before dropping onto and into me.
watching a candlelight burning in a lighthouse
lantern g...
Thursday 17th November 2022 2:22 pm
Also by Rob Cohen:
dreams + psychedelic drugs as inter~dimensional portals |It’s hard finding the words
To describe this feeling
Alive, breathing in my thoughts
In my grasp loosing meaning
Someone chaining my voice
Sucking the air i ought to be breathing
Crushing the soil that I walk
Ripping my dreams in pieces
Making it clear it will never stop
Not abiding to any reasoning
Reaching an edge I never crossed
Contemplatin...
Thursday 17th November 2022 3:03 am
Also by racha:
Doors |Raining in the changes
STREETS BECOME GULLIES
RIVERS BECOME INSURANCE CLAIMS
CARS BECOME PEDESTRIAN SPRAYERS
UMBRELLAS BECOME ABSOLUTE NECESSITIES
AVOIDING PUDDLES BECOMES GAMES OF HOPSCOTCH
BIRD BATHS BECOME POINTLESS
LADIES NEW HAIR DO'S BECOME RATS TAILS
CENTRALLY HEATED HOUSES BECOME WET CLOTHES SANCTUARIES
WATERPROOFS AND WELLIES BECOME THE LATEST FASHIONS
BUSES BECOME MOBILE SAUNAS
...
Tuesday 15th November 2022 9:03 pm
It's occurred to me that I really love the kind of things that represent a beautiful but gentle sadness because it feels like the most accurate reflection of real life and it feels the most like home.
Tuesday 15th November 2022 6:27 am
Also by Steven J Fish:
After All | Mind Fog | The Bottle | Rest |walking
"i know how to walk from here to there"
okay, i muse back,
"so walk through fires with me, walk through"
i cant. i never have been able to.
the places that i walk from are the mouths of cavernous houses.
and from them ive only just realised i can leave.
"i will give you wings and a heart and a lust for the finer things"
good, i need an incentive.
"but you must act upon...
Tuesday 15th November 2022 12:43 am
Also by Nadia Coia:
ruddy farmers daughter | there's a couple sitting two seats in front |Lest They Forget
A village Remembrance service.
The same old hymns,
and pacifist sentiment.
Sun streams through
the memorial hall window
so that I can hardly see.
And when we come
to those words
and the bugle plays
and tears are wiped away
that same sun
has gone down, disappeared.
Why did we fight? Maybe
just to defend the British
belief in fair play, in sticking
t...
Monday 14th November 2022 9:53 am
Lola's Thoughts
My thoughts are clean
I am kind
I am free
I have strong boundaries
I am stronger than any
Spiritual Attacks
I am stronger than any
Evil eyes
Any low vibrating entities
Energies
Or dark forces
My shadow and my light
Are very balanced
My angel and my demon
Are best friends
I am very sexy
Very sensual
Men get hard
Just from the thought of me
I...
Saturday 12th November 2022 9:05 pm
Also by Mama Lola:
My Name Is Sunshine | Tick Tock | A Reminder To My Inner Teenager |November 2022 Collage Poem: The New Face
Lifeless monarch dances with Elvis and the Tall Man
Eternal caretaker roams the trysting fields, wraps his rictus
Grin round the empty gin bottle
Waiting for the announcement of a significant death
The clown shakes off his last cigarette
Haunted by the cold face of a living
Being, in an English winter of worried
Wives and broken men
The eternal caretaker stood ov...
Friday 11th November 2022 6:19 pm
Lower Flowers
Look at the art
but don’t fall in
it only leads to
marginalization,
poverty
and death
just remember
these visions
your entire life
leave them in a corner
of your mind
while you work
yourself to the bone
heaven might come
to resemble them
Friday 11th November 2022 4:45 pm
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
Live Texting The South Bronx Middle School Parent Teacher Conference | Cops Come in All Shapes and Sizes | Pink Coast | Polite Company |Cast away
Love is love they say as their loveless mouths spit each syllable like a foulness upon their tastebuds. All the while spouting poisonous scriptures on why your kind of love is not adhered to, not seen, not recognised.
And if it is not recognised, but you still dare to live outside their boundaries, you are cast away.
Family is everything, they speak as though that ought to be enoug...
Thursday 10th November 2022 3:48 pm
Also by F.Jae:
From up on the poppy hill | Onyx Eyes |December 24th
We're late and
I am losing the battle.
his will is stronger
than mine,
now he is holding
the toothbrush
except he is not brushing his teeth
instead his smearing
toothpaste across
the smiling mouth
of his fabric crocodile,
while all I can manage
is to watch
weighted by what's
still required to do,
feeling my oversized tiredness
weigh upon the thin springs
of his undersized matt...
Thursday 10th November 2022 2:33 pm
Also by Tom Harding:
Entropy | Napkin Equation |Mumbo Jumbo Land
In furthest Mumbo Jumbo land
Where dragons take you by the hand
and show you fiery pits of fear
that burn and scar blood sweat and tear
In Whatever, Forever, Never land
Where stoic figures stalk the night
to horrify, take great delight
Bringing, angst, pain, terror, and fright
The very thought of what they do
Is enough to shred the nerves of you
and me, and ...
Thursday 10th November 2022 1:13 pm
Also by Rick Varden:
Colours that Bleed | Bonfire night blues |We Live in Fear
We live in fear
Of putting the electricity on
We live in fear
Of the next bill to come
We freeze in desperation
As the gas dies down
We live in fear
Of people in dinghy boats,
Though we know none of them
They make us fear…
The bus we can’t catch
The train we can’t ride in
The pub we can’t go into
Whilst they unpack
Fresh Harrods s...
Thursday 10th November 2022 11:12 am
The songs that I hear
The songs I hear,
So melodious and eloquent
The stories I read
So intriguing and fluent
But, when I attempt to create
What I think to be my literary best
My drivel could, really,
Drive a hornet from its nest.
I get the phrase,
Not the apt usage,
I wish to express,
Without sufficient verbiage!
I get the lingo right,
But not the intonation.
Or great r...
Thursday 10th November 2022 7:51 am
Life On Review
Live it how you live it
I have sandboxed mine
I put thoughts to deeds
Bound to natural mistakes
But I choose the lessons
Free advice cost pain too
I too fuck up trying to love
Boys I keep think like I do
We share paths and words
Different work, same goals
Putting coins to good use
Sawing seeds to feed us later
Pimping shelters to houses
Time alone is for...
Wednesday 9th November 2022 12:27 pm
Also by Lucas Chihinga:
Like A Rose |THE TYRANT
THE TYRANT
As a child he kept amphibians
netted in the gentle stream,
fed maggots, worms and spiders;
enjoyed that savage ritual.
Along the seaside promenade
he'd pester grandma for another coin
to watch the clockwork execution:
a model man led out by guards
who dropped through a tiny trapdoor.
Later he amassed billions,
rose to power, eliminated rivals,
...Tuesday 8th November 2022 3:05 pm
Detachment | Agonizing Words
Detachment: the state of being objective or aloof.
Just a simple word with a simple meaning but with much importance in the life of a normal human being. We may never notice, but it's a virtue if you know when to detach yourself from a feeling, person, or habit. It may sound a bit awkward to people when you tell them just to detach themselves from something that used to have great importanc...
Tuesday 8th November 2022 1:41 pm
Summat and Nuffin
Summat and Nuffin
Heard before seeing approaching train station;
bubbles of sound that he blows for beguiling
the purposive hordes in their panting impatience –
his smile isn’t worn by the faces that file in.
Sat cross-legged, upturned hat on the pavement,
he strives against platform announcements and sirens
which torment the ears and evoke imprecations,
w...
Tuesday 8th November 2022 9:54 am
Also by Ray:
Study Day on Attachment |Paper cuts
Cuts from pristine crisp yellow pages
leading to a moonlit night
beside the waves
with the onomatopoeia of the lapping waters
against your feet
and the warmth from the
fire beside
Cuts from letters
not pronouncing love
but charges for services with “friendly reminder” written in red
and an occasional congratulations
and seasonal “vote for me”s
...
Tuesday 8th November 2022 5:41 am
Also by Poetique:
Rhetorical questions | Faux Roses |SHOULD SNOW WHITE CROSS THE BRIDGE?
Despaired Snow white was standing alone,
in the middle of broken bridge,
The bridge connecting her two worlds,
filling day and night with fidge.
One end symbolises freedom,
the moments of true existence,
the moments without fence,
the moments with happy sense,
paving way for upcoming moves of dance.
The other end is suffocating,
hands tied with rope,
life without a...
Saturday 5th November 2022 6:16 am
Darkest Times
In the darkest times, there is always a light,
Someone who will hold you, or just sit with you,
when you are feeling doubt.
Maybe it's a person? Or maybe it's a dog? who looks at you with non-judging unconditional love,
and makes you know everything will be alright!
That makes you put on your armour and continue to fight,
Because warriors might lose battles and even have scars,
...Wednesday 2nd November 2022 3:48 pm
𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗜 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐌𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.
𝐒𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬.
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞
𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞
𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞
𝐈 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫
𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞
𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 ...
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 3:03 am
CELEBRATION OF DEMONS
Tonight's the night have you not heard
Toffee apples have been prepared
Wonderful pumpkin carving creations
Creepy decor and illuminations
Monsters and zombies roam the streets
Pointed hats webbed hands and feet
Awakened corpses arise from their tombs
Black cats and witches fly past on brooms
Sightings of mummy's and trails of blood
Are taking over the ...
Tuesday 1st November 2022 2:09 pm
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