In the Land of Lost Content
In the land of lost content, irregular shadows play,
Stronger memories are now fading in the light of day.
We've harvested all those yesteryear fields where dreams were spent,
Whilst on the wistful journey to the land of lost content.
Through autumn's fallen leaves, through libraries of tales untold,
Wayward laughter set in a gallery of smiling gold.
Where your pou...
Thursday 30th November 2023 5:27 pm
Also by JD Russell:
Amputee | Now we understand what love is | Love he, who has wronged me |Shear brilliance ewe herd it here first
Jim was on his way to a sheep auction in town,
Unfortunately his truck full of sheep broke down.
Jim guided the sheep,except for one ewe,to the sale in Blackburn ,
But got a fine through the post for making a ewe turn.
Thursday 30th November 2023 4:36 pm
Also by hugh:
Stress relief ,never be anxious about the next day | "Doctor please can you give me a kiss ?" | “Getting old and 85 candles on my cake,”thoughts of an elderly gentleman |Character Reference
Writing a character reference
for a friend
for someone I thought I knew
to mitigate their crimes
to ease them on their future journey
humbled, kneecapped and sore
Two thoughts spring to mind…
What good have they done
and how can it be expressed
Were they always the first to lend a hand
were they always there for those in need
Which of their actions
should I recall and paint in colour
...
Thursday 30th November 2023 3:47 pm
Also by Tom:
For Whom | Low Winter Son | An Eyelash Breadth Between Us | Asking For A Friend |To Drink or Not to Drink? 🍸
All adults may easily pick and choose
To stay sober or to drink some booze.
It can make us silly or even absurd,
As we giggle with our every word.
Should we indulge in those drinks we crave?
Though it may change how we behave.
And with alcohol we may soon find
The huge effect it has upon our mind.
So whilst it may take our sense and fear,
The effect in time shall disappear.
And while...
Thursday 30th November 2023 3:43 pm
Also by Stuart Vanner:
Standing Up For Justice |HOMELESS
Homeless, hopeless
figures below the radar
invisible, divisible
scant on comfort
at the blunt edge of hope.
But we all know there should be a home
a hearth at which to sit, make the best of it.
Without such a place we lose our hearts
with nowhere to rely on
a perimeter without a centre
a view without focus.
We all know there are not enough homes to go ro...
Thursday 30th November 2023 3:25 pm
Also by ray pool:
A GOOD MOAN | AUTUMN WORSHIP | WHILE I THINK IT | HAVING A DAY OUT |Write Out loud Writers
I am truly blown away by the poems I have found
With provoking thoughts, emotions, or an aspiring phrase
Written imagery from people who absolutely astound
I wish to comment but fear the words sound like hollow praise
A tapestry of emotions woven with the thread of living
Raw beauty in written exposes originating from the heart
The culmination of our essence, the sum of our being
...Thursday 30th November 2023 1:38 pm
Also by Tim Higbee:
Queen of The Wooded Grove | Warlord | Who Are These Words For? | Evolving | dot | Shadows Between Words | Old Friend | Dancing Leaves | Violence | Face Facade |Ghazala Lari - an ode to myself 🤪
Ghazala Lari, a shining star✨
With grace and beauty from afar💫
Her eyes like pools of liquid night🌠
Her presence fills the room with light 🕯️
Her voice, a melody so sweet 🎶
It carries on the gentle breeze 🍃
A poet's heart, a soul so pure ❤️
She weaves her words with skill and lure 🧶
In her presence, time stands still ⌚
Her laughter, like a gentle rill 😂
She captivates with every glan...
Thursday 30th November 2023 1:14 pm
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
It strikes me that this little prick has got away for quite some time now with some serious red-washing. So it falls to Yours Truly to subject it a little revisionist challenge.
Let’s start with Rudolph’s isolation. He would have it that he was excluded from the other reindeers’ games, clearly trying to elicit sympathy from a more gullible readership. Indeed, if the reason was down to bullyi...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 9:42 pm
Also by John Coopey:
I'LL GET MY CONKERS OUT | JOE 90 | THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM | THE FAMILY TREE | THEM AS LIVES LONGEST LEARNS MOST | "HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE SUELLA?" | DICK | LIFESTYLE CHOICE (SCUM OF THE EARTH) | CERTAINTY | THE MEANING OF LIFE | "ACCEPT YOUR FATE" | LITTLE BASTARDS |I see you see they see
When I look at you all, I don’t see
I don’t see the barriers others may see
Others may see what they want to see
What they want to see, I don’t
I see people for who they are
For who they are, I see them
I see them as the same you see
You see, everyone is equal
When I look at all the wars, I see suffering
I see suffering in many peoples eyes
In many people’s...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 9:39 pm
Also by Rick Varden:
FASCINATION | The Wayward Wonky Walker | The Hare and the Tortoise | Little Girl by the Lake | Manchester ‘blues’ | Once upon a Time | The Young Lady | Make Someone | Rock and Roll | Jamming |I like the people I hate
I like the people I hate
they have their points
they have their say
they go about their lives
the opposite of mine
sometimes I can’t find
the differences
at which time
I hate the people I like
Wednesday 29th November 2023 6:16 pm
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
A good human | Good Trouble |December
December
December is a troubadour singing in celebration
of vanillla-ice skies
snow-cone hills
frost-sculptured window pane
of crackling fire
steaming hot chocolate lamp-lit reading chair
of children laughing,
dragging homeward pine tree
decking it with kindergarten art
candy canes, and flashing lights
hanging hope in a stocking
saying pray...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 5:49 pm
Also by Wilma Gundy:
Cat | Laura | November |Escape
Flight fearlessly taken,
An escape from this reality.
Too scarred to face
The heights of idiocy,
The lows of idiocracy.
Facing up to a void.
Nothing to fear
Except fear itself.
Wednesday 29th November 2023 3:34 pm
Also by Jon63:
A Cloud is Born? | Dawning | A Dreamy Wave |Love is a Circle
Wake in the morning
arms stretch up to the sky
and down to the earth.
Light is invited,
and in a single breath,
light arrives,
an eager friend
illuminating all.
Praise to the light,
praise to the dark,
arriving and leaving,
as with breath,
as with all--
death is a friend,
life is a friend--
illumined by light,
is there even a difference?
Yes, of c...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 1:50 pm
Also by Hélène:
Spectrum | Tiny Bud | Painting the Days with Gratitude | A Prayer | Lamentations (in 3 parts) | Wind, Lifting | Into the Holy | Joy and Understanding |The Hare and the Tortoise
The owl and the pussycat, the porpoise and bear
The fox and hound, the tortoise and hare
One day in the Spring in the open air
In the pool for a swim went the tortoise and hare
Said the tortoise to hare, ‘I really must ask',
As the hare took a break from swimming on past
‘In case you are blind or simply can’t read
Each lane has a name correct for its speed’
Thought ...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 12:46 pm
Also by Lee Campbell:
Juicy Lucy | A Day out with Rufus | Dancing with Spiders | Apple of My Eye | Plums | Plums |النكبةAl Nakba: Day 27,375 and Counting…
النكبةAl Nakba: Day 27,375 and Counting…
With client hacks,
quiet words in ears,
he loves the craic
at working lunch
with the journo sewer,
making numbers crunch,
his purging list,
is at the ready,
on power pissed
he’s biding time,
and keeping steady
the applecart,
election ready,
to be off like a fart,
the lobby’s man,
so quiet when
it suits him ...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 12:32 pm
Life ‘n’ God ‘n’ Death ‘n’ Stuff
Where on earth (or space) did we come from?
What intrepid seed made us be?
I like the idea of God
But, my mind's eye won't let me see
They say we're all made of stardust
So, perhaps, there lies a clue
Just molecules & atoms congealed
From the old primordial stew
Were we once nebulae or quasars?
Drifting upon solar winds
Dancing to songs of the universe
...Wednesday 29th November 2023 12:27 pm
Day 644
Why do they try to murder Ukraine?
Why do they turn their hatred on us?
Why do they dump their anger again
And then feign surprise at all the fuss?
Why do they slaughter the best of our youth
And try to efface all the signs of our past,
Pretending to be the masters of truth,
Denying their part in each deadly blast?
Why do they wish to hollow us out
Why do they ...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 8:53 am
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Them | Science is Divided | Somewhere | COP28 | Cold Wind | Flatpack | Hell |Marbles
Napoleon wanted to buy them
And if it wasn’t for Elgin’s divorce
The Government might not have acquired them
At half the price, of course.
He told them that he had a firman
Although its veracity’s in doubt,
He said I’m telling you that the Sultan
Said I could take all the marbles out.
He was going to keep them in private
If it wasn’t for his divorce
Byron thought he was a pirate
And the...
Wednesday 29th November 2023 7:45 am
Also by Steve White:
Josef | Put Up Shut Up Britain Part Three |Ghosts Of The Future
Ghosts of the future
Can inhabit a computer
He spent half his life
Playing video games
The world of e-gaming
Is his afterlife domain
I stared at that ghost
I stared so very hard
'Cause I new that that ghost
Wasn't from my graphics card
Wednesday 29th November 2023 12:15 am
Also by Jed:
Talibani Tranny | You'll feel the nuke but your shadow wont fade away | Top Copper on Hash |Transplant
He needs your heart
But not for love
That he gets from any woman
He just needs a healthy heart
For a patient in his family
And so also your liver and kidneys
You may just have fever
Once you are in the hospital
His work is done easily
He has recruited his agent doctors
Who will conduct surgery at a plea
Charging money for transplanting
Your healthy heart, liver ...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 11:57 pm
Also by Sunshine:
Silenced | Faded memory | Third part lies | Specimen ME | To find a home | Ironical | Pin drop silence | Bare soul | Wondrous why's | Opportunities | Glass never empty | Reinstitute | Slow but steady |Title
I will take the crispy toast
and get the milk
from the fridge and
put it back
And I looked at you
moving
As you smiled with dishes
In your hand
And I watched knowing
That even in this room
I missed you
And I held a hand
To your cheek
And
I ached at the
thought...
Tommy Carroll
Tuesday 28th November 2023 11:18 pm
Also by Tommy Carroll:
Brushing past | Windy Blowings |A Dense Fog
A Dense Fog
A dense fog pervades the atmosphere,
obscurring any sight of the nearby volcano.
Yet it's presence could be felt,
as the earth trembled with sulphur and cordite
in the fetid air.
I could hear the sound of the nearby ocean,
a valve through which escape was possible.
The land was dark and foreboding,
no canopy of stars could be seen.
I stood alone fear...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 10:28 pm
Also by keith jeffries:
The Golden Thread | Poetry at War | The Little People | Fear Stalks the Streets | The Abuser |Late November
Let’s away to the mountains
to the music of loss when elegy-tossed
the sun above us burns mists away
as we walk back to the valley of youth.
Today, I walk the blue moutains of forgetting,
just above the far-horizons of sight,
no closer after five days of tramping the fields;
I keep going and going whilst knowing futility
in every pore, I just keep heading
for the rising sun or the waning...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 7:17 pm
Also by John E Marks:
SUMMER TIME | These streets aren’t meant for dreaming | Love Untethered | Meanderings | No retreat, no surrender | 11th November 1918 | The house of the rising sun | Trilobite | Moon, moon | silhouettes streak the sky | Written near water |WINTER TREES
Winter trees are spindly spare -
Like old men in their show;
Shivering in the brittle air,
Bespoke in coats of snow.
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Tuesday 28th November 2023 6:58 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
POETRY DIGS! | DOG AND BOY | LONESOME RAIL | WEEKEND THOUGHTS | WHERE? | A DISTANT HAZE - a re-post for Autumn | THE GALMPTON ROBIN - a re-post for November |Fake Boris visits Yeats Country
My motor car crept along, under the majestic shape of Co. Sligo’s prominent mountain, Ben Bulben, covered in an ominous black cloud, as I and the wife explored Yeats’ Country.
We filled up at Betty Hanharan’s, with a huge pot of tea to follow,
and met an old chap called Brian, whose delight it was to visit such a splendid county.
‘I’ll buy you a glass of stout,’ he told us,
‘down the road ...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 5:24 pm
Performance
I had meeting once with the powers that that think their all that
Something about performance they said, is how there settled in and that
They asked many questions
I just smiled and nodded hoping they keep on paying me
Cause that's the game my time for your money
So I can go on spend on Spills thrills the odd pill and a new pair of kicks
Just to fill the avoid to fill the ...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 12:02 pm
Also by Keith Byrne:
Will I still love me | Bay |Message in a Bottle
Coconut oil suntan lotion
slathered on my skin.
Motion of the raging ocean
a fire brews within.
Adirondack on the boat deck
letting the sunbeams in.
My note to you
in a closed glass tube
I sent it for a swim.
The day you find the note I wrote
will surely be my end.
Tuesday 28th November 2023 5:29 am
Also by Sasha Logan:
Plane | Kitty | Be nicer | Sadie the aquafox | Milquetoast |The Addition
It's been a long go
Some projects just take time
With a little prayer all the pieces arrive just when they should
I've never been a rich man through the ways of money
But I have always been rich through the ways of relationships
Which in my ponderings I have found is the nature of the universe
For that reason I put forth and find positivity in all people
The construct of th...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 4:55 am
Also by New Shoes:
License for Love |Bike Ride
Riding our bikes along the levy trail,
the willow tree’s branches
hang low over the path
in the early afternoon haze.
I reach up like a thief
to grab a handful of leaves,
mischievously tossing them up in the air.
As they scatter and float in the wind
behind me, riding through them,
she reaches out to capture a few.
Later, the rescued leaves
are a...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 1:20 am
Also by Mike McPeek:
Cleaning Up After You | Bodega Bay | Three Sentence Breakup | Grandma's Cellar | Precarious Times |Seasons
Harsh and dangerous years
grey pebbles encased in ice
seasons in their perpetual cycle
visit yet to gather their tithe.
Black covers of a book slammed shut
epitomise time here where we are
thankful of sleep as the hours may pass
but think too of the unconscious loved one
that precious time you realised, dumbstruck
they had fell from the heavens for you
a pristine figure you had to reac...
Monday 27th November 2023 2:49 pm
Also by Adam Whitworth:
Slipping Mask |The Door
I think I left the door open -
At the back of my brain
And you got in there
and stole what’s mine.
Implanted thoughts of you
in every small Corner and Crevice,
Burrowed your way into my subconscious
Until I could never forget you.
I think you slammed it on your way out -
One last defiance,
One final fuck you,
Jammed it shut so no
One could enter again -
...Monday 27th November 2023 7:08 am
sky split above me
and so the sky split above her.
the sky that held her world and all that she knew.
it fell,
it fell for days and months at a time.
she built forests with trees as high as she could imagine,
she asked them to sow the sky back up.
and she played her music and she walked on,
she traverses the planes of her life.
but the sky is still split, and all she knows or knew is sti...
Monday 27th November 2023 1:15 am
Also by Nadia Coia:
I am a cruel girl |Silver door
Slip into the river
Through the silver door
The sun is setting
God like fingers of light
Filter through blood clouds
Playing the keyboard of fields
Raising the earths chorus
As all prepare for sleep
Monochrome moon lays its hands on the shadows
Cooling the air
Suspension of reality
This is the world of Things
Skulking in the blackest pits
Stealing awa...
Sunday 26th November 2023 11:34 pm
Also by Edbreathe:
Monsters at 7 | Eggs | I stretch my hand | In sanit TEA | Thy Me |Dragonfly
Most beautiful dragonfly you ever did see.
Descends to land upon my left knee.
We looked one another deep in the eye.
Then with a wink, it flew away into the sky.
www.deanfrasercentral.com
Sunday 26th November 2023 4:40 pm
Also by Dean Fraser:
Programme Accepted | Finding Van Gogh In Ramsgate |My music (up for collabos with spoken word artists)
my instrumental album: https://cbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/samples
Sunday 26th November 2023 1:46 pm
smoke and mirrors
Sunday 26th November 2023 12:34 pm
Also by Red Brick Keshner:
Chatterton’s Redress | Welcome to my limbo | a vantaged point | Pandanus | Fly | stick to it | darkish hopefulness | untimely demise | recital |Strolling Out in Covid Life
Think twice or thrice if you wish to stroll,
And be merciful to your pitiful soul,
With many things ahead,
Than what one can think,
Where each of it awaits,
To make you sink
With sanitizer in hand and shielded with a mask,
You are a soldier on task,
With regular thermal screenings
And quick swab tests
You are seen doubtfully
For the traces of the unholy enemy ...
Sunday 26th November 2023 6:39 am
Also by Nila:
Seeking the wild within |Choices
The October sky caved in all around me,
Like a blanket without contact.
I stood stagnant in the dark, aware and somehow unafraid of all that lurked among the darkness.
If I ran now there would be no escaping the guilt, but if not now then I never would.
Sunday 26th November 2023 1:13 am
Also by Jordyn Elizabeth:
Heartbreak. |Rewilding the golf club
They’ve identified our golf club
for returning to the wild
It’s to become a verdant Eden
For every adult, dog and child
A place of natural splendour
Where no groundsmen smoke or hunker
Sheltering from the elements in the deeper fairway bunkers
No more Pringle sweaters in pink and blue and grey
No more Captain’s Prize and no more Ladies’ Day
No more midweek medals o...
Saturday 25th November 2023 6:35 pm
Also by R A Porter:
Once upon a time in a vest | Urinal View | Dave's Back | Walking into the light | Love on the Allotment | Neighbour's got a new hot tub |through a windshield (11-25-2023)
together
thru all the glue
filn history's glossy cracks
and all the pines
from wane to wax
we were(are, perhaps)
moonrise bent
lain with backs
pressed on tarmac
slid red, long
longer than we thought possible.
dream-licked heads
shattered and spread :
painted lines on painted lines
on
painted lines
down along this serpentine road.
without a motion ...
Saturday 25th November 2023 3:07 pm
Also by Zach Dafoe:
soft; Amelia Earhardt 0837 (11/12/2023) |As the Cockroaches Flee
As the cockroaches flee,
Do you feel like a god?
Or do you squirm in your skin,
And let primal urges win?
Benevolence, for a thing of ill repute
Malevolence, for a thing of beauty
Built from the carrion of creation
Built from the decay of a nation
As the cockroaches flee,
Do you feel like a God?
The power of creativity
Held in palms fiercely,
As t...
Friday 24th November 2023 7:21 am
Also by Luke Bainbridge:
Hoard Your Wealth! | The Want for Nothing |Dance
Oxford Road train station
Asking me do I have
A spare cigarette
And I smiled ill at ease
And said
‘I don’t smoke’
He then asked do I
Have a spare can of Fosters
And I shook my head
Surprised slightly
Said sadly not.
He then asked did I
Have a
Tin of beans
And then asked
Did I have a spare silk tie
Both of which
I said I didn’t like beans
And I don’t have a tie.
With a nod,...
Thursday 23rd November 2023 9:42 pm
Also by Gray Nicholls:
Beach Life | Memory II | Memory (I) | Desire |Time Was
Once I was an objector, I was a pacifist.
Once I was a protestor, I was an abolitionist.
Once I was a demonstrator, I was a militant.
Once I was an opposer, I was a dissident.
Once I was an activist, I was a picketer.
Once I was a nonconformist, I was a dissenter.
Now I’m a snowflake-worrier, an enemy-within extremist.
A social-justice warrior, must I be made a conformist.
Thursday 23rd November 2023 11:19 am
Also by John Gilbert Ellis:
Suellanelle (or The Erati Writes Back) | Dancing In the City | Autumnal Abscission |For the Record
Without so much as a thread of decency,
Antoninus Elagabalus, high priest
and mother’s boy, made biographers weep.
Proponents of discipline almost choked,
repeating the syllables of his name.
His sculpted head is unremarkable
and bears no trace of his supposed excesses;
the muddled genes of his outlandishness
those of a handsome kid who, like the best
of us, w...
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 10:56 am
Also by David Cooke:
For John Coltrane | The Way We Were | The Teatime Bulletin | Bruegel |Oswald and Chapman
Late November,
early December.
The blood-spattered dress.
The shattered lenses.
Across the years
same shock and tears.
Rifle skills into practice.
Imagine such riches.
The Communist, the Christian:
two fame-jealous hitmen.
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 8:14 am
Also by Greg Freeman:
George Orwell, where art thou? |Bold & Silent
I turned the volume down so I could hear you.
Everything is still too loud.
Too many voices, and not the one I needed to hear.
I want to hear.
Mourning that lasted for nine hundred sixty four days.
Salty tears soaked waterlogged greenery.
Droopy head. Droopy leaves.
Pruning a root bound plant
Repot.
Acclamation felt like dormancy
Dormancy was intense
Lef...
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 2:31 am
Echoes of Truth
A storefront window
dissolving echoes of truth
eternally etched
in the minds of old youth
sits centered
on a mossy brick facade.
Those passing by
never see what’s inside.
Though honestly,
that’s by design.
Perpetual dissonance
behind the arched cedar door
with its inside, not out
weathering more.
And the old cobblestone road
leads to long...
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 1:27 am
Acting All Crazy
Let’s act all crazy
Forget being lazy
Dance to the tune
Fly high like a balloon
Not looking around
Just moving to the sound
Heart racing faster
Becoming a master
Chill out and party
Feeling very hearty
Work is never-ending
Orders always pending
So just shake your body
And be a little naughty
Laugh and be silly
Life is like a beautiful lily!
Tuesday 21st November 2023 1:04 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Happy Days |Goodbye The Light
Secondary not one more,
Be thrilled to be here,
He steadfast manner and held hand high.
Can't say you didn't see it,
Can't say you didn't hear it,
But the eyes see deeply at night.
Not that it matters,
What little remains,
A remnant of a forgotten peace.
In desecrated corpses we lay,
In a future world set aside in lenient light,
Edging more to the li...
Tuesday 21st November 2023 6:12 am
Poem
Poem my creation
Haven’t you pondered on wonders
Do you not question genes of your origin
Well, DNAs of your composition do vary
Process and placement do call for art though stylish
Conception of your form is meaningful though arbitrary
Conceived to whispers of stimulative thoughts
Born to scribes of ink onto faces of paper sheets
Revealed to sight in trace marks ...
Monday 20th November 2023 8:39 pm
Also by Lucas Chihinga:
Narrow View |Jimmie Nicol (13 Days)
13 days in the spotlight...13 days of fame.
Ringo's replacement, Jimmie Nicol his name.
Jimmie looked the part, with a new hairstyle.
He even wore Ringo Starr's suits for a while!
He sat in the Limo next to Paul and John.
His World turned upside down, from day one.
Screaming girls, wanted a piece of him.
And the TV camera's on Jimmie zoomed in.
Press conferences t...
Monday 20th November 2023 11:24 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
Strawberry Field | Wait | Into My Past |إِنَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Hold me tight and let go of all your fear,
Do not worry my child, judgement day is near.
As the IOF ethnically cleanse our land and destroy our heritage,
I pray you pass on our Palestinian culture that you inherited.
The world has heard your cries and seen your tears,
They protest in solidarity for all of the anguish we have suffered for years.
Israel's genocide will soon come t...
Sunday 19th November 2023 5:26 pm
God's and everyone else
There is so much in the world that makes you fearful,
Like maintaining control of your souls broken down vehicle,
Desperately seeking a situation that's cheerful,
Individually sinful yet collectively meaningful,
Weak in body but Spirituality unbreakable.
There is so much in the world so profound,
Yet we break ourselves in search of the pound,
...
Sunday 19th November 2023 2:16 pm
Also by Luke:
Daddy Did |Two-Faced
She prances around with a grin from ear to ear,
her smile could mesmerize a room.
She has such a strong confidence about her,
little do people know, shes filled with gloom.
Her day by day is filled with fights
her past is dark and never an ounce of light.
Shes clawed herself through trauma and tragedy,
her silence is a Louder than ever,
is her pain and hurt the only thi...
Sunday 19th November 2023 3:13 am
Whispers of Woe
Ye Universe heal my heart
For my grief is tearing me apart
Why can’t everyone see I’m trying
They only pay attention when I’m crying
I’ve had such a hard life as it is
When will I ever get to experience bliss
For all I have ever known is pain
To be told I only have myself to blame
What did I ever do so wrong
To deserve a life so tortured and so long
Is despair...
Friday 17th November 2023 9:38 am
Also by Paige JG:
Turned Tables | Solemn Suffering |When Collecting Memories a Legend is Born
Famous Footballer's biography
Hundreds were queuing
Book printed memories
The Man himself
Said to me
Sorry you waited
For so long
Another memory added
Respectable Gentleman honoured
Silent coffin carried
Holding treasured moments
Remembering heartfelt connections
Final journey celebrating
Time travelling conversations
Continually collecting emotions
Goi...
Friday 17th November 2023 2:13 am
Footfall...
Protagonists, antagonists,
and all in-between,
relying on serendipity
to give its cosmic wink,
decide their fates,
and make them conduits
for that universal allegory
looming ever so large,
within this paradigm
of ashes and dust,
before they're footnoted
as the mere footfall
of an era bygone,
the one following
forgetting to ask
who was hero,
and who w...
Thursday 16th November 2023 6:08 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Half-heartedly... |The Mother Kali
All say the NIGHT is nothing but you
After repellent darkness a day new,
The firefly that takes the PRIDE
Is none other than luminescent light,
A bud gets its fulfilment lonely
In darkness is YOU(mother) the latency,
The sun has got the ball of fire
From YOU, O SWEET MOTHER!
The cloud is devoid of guile white
Sailing in the space so bright:
Whiteness of impeccability is yours
The golden...
Thursday 16th November 2023 8:24 am
Also by Ujjal Mandal:
Grandfather & I |“New Energy”
Recently I been uninspired and my heart weeps for innovation, I’m over the anticlimactic vibes, I’m keeping distance from all the prevaricators, In the right occasion I bring the zeal, How will you speak when the truth gets leaked? The heat of the fire, My raw agenda is that I am trying to inspire, I need it vice versa, The vise grip of life’s myths, try not to get duped into stagnancy, why do you...
Thursday 16th November 2023 1:36 am
Liverpool
The Liverpool I know
I never felt I belonged
An observer
A watcher
Drinking in everything that came along
Revisiting memories so very clear
My city heart beats like I’m still here
Streets never changing
People stay the same
Time hasn’t dulled the reason for their fame,
I know I’m among them when I hear their cheerful roar
They clatter as they run by, with laughter ...
Wednesday 15th November 2023 7:27 pm
Also by IanQ:
My Selfish Heart | Spirit of Friendship | Did we meet, now we have | Dusk | Ice | Dawn | Love Changes | Two Hearts | Jaunt | Love Wins | Everything | Beautiful Woman |Late night
Not just in some.. times
Upto ten times in a week's
I wake up very late
In the middle of night
To say hi to my life
To whom I see as my half
She is the one that wakes
That gives my life a sense
She doesn't know all this
Or she don't care if I miss
So I see her in my hand
At late night on my bed
Hoping to see her again
I kiss my phone on her chi...
Wednesday 15th November 2023 4:37 pm
Greedy Hearts
I am no product of love,
I have never been treated as one.
I am the product of greed,
The punishment of my creators' sin.
I am no reminder of their love,
I serve only as a reminder of their greed.
Greedy for more love,
When their own had run out.
I am a desperate attempt at filling their
Empty hearts once again.
My own scratched empty,
Theirs only half filled...
Wednesday 15th November 2023 12:46 pm
U V Ray Hardcover
The great U v rays novel is now out in hardcover.
A Cigarette Burn In The Sun: Amazon.co.uk: ray, u.v, Press, Yellow King: 9798864977309: Books
Wednesday 15th November 2023 12:33 pm
Also by Yellow King Press:
New book |fattening up
Fattening up
The way the cookie crumbles
The more my stomach grumbles
I can write i can eat
I rather feed than binge on drugs or alcohol
A behemoth living an unforgiving world
A slave to its own devices
Like rats or the mice i live on the scraps
Feeding the emotions that come across me
Lock everything in chains or with keys
I eat like its a desire a necessity
Bet y...
Wednesday 15th November 2023 4:43 am
Also by Clifford Harris:
love ain't for me |Title.
My mother made a slick decision when she was 9 months pregnant.
Denying the wishes of her gentle husband;
Spitting out words from her own tongue,
Never borrowing those from her predecessors.
I would not be French,
She did not come from France,
My father’s family, too, a stranger to French land.
Yet, I carry with me a tinge of a French identity
Buried in 5 letters, merely...
Wednesday 15th November 2023 12:13 am
Also by Claire Maher:
By Daylight |To The Woman I Love
Expressions of Love: Part VIII
Title: To The Woman I Love
To the woman I love
You are mine
To the woman I have
I am yours
To the woman I found
I am no longer lost
To the woman I see
There is no greater beauty
To the woman I hear
No sound can compare
To the woman I touch
My fingers trace no other
To the woman you are
The man I am cound never as...
Tuesday 14th November 2023 4:17 pm
Tonight...
Light breeze,
Flowing through your hair,
Like swift waves of silent sea.
As we hear,
Gentle rustling of leaves,
Their sound, A music indeed,
With the moon's light,
Shimmering through the sky,
Lightning our path,
Your dark eyes,
Twinkling,
Like an ocean, filled with stars.
Hear me, my dear,
I know it is hard,
But, I want you,
To forget all your worries,
...Tuesday 14th November 2023 8:28 am
Also by Nitika Prabhakar:
O |A Night Walk
I look up at the stars at night,
It's quiet and so dark.
There's one that shines so very bright,
I wander to the park.
A bright and beautiful shooting star,
A cluster of twinkling lights.
I wonder if I could travel so far,
Or climb such great heights.
For I do want to see them all,
To marvel in their beauty.
Vast expanses I feel so small,
Milky Way like the blue se...
Tuesday 14th November 2023 12:32 am
Also by DanielleWrites:
A dramatic monologue from a Submarine Captain |Quiet Flower
I see a small field.
A flower stands alone there.
It looks at me, too.
I ask it a question now,
But all I hear is silence.
Monday 13th November 2023 1:40 am
Hope Resurfaces For the Girl at Greggs
Hope Resurfaces For the Girl at Greggs
I saw your forearm as you got my sausage roll
from the hot counter and placed it in a brown bag.
The long line of cuts from your wrist to your elbow
a message, a plea, a cry for help, a hashtag
to the like-minded of life blighted by self-harm.
I would never have known from your warm smile, charming
service that you suffered any mental ang...
Saturday 11th November 2023 12:22 pm
Mother Dearest
Pinned down to the paper doll you created for me to be
Pieces of myself sliced away to better fit the mold
Never allowed to grow away from your expectations
Why have I never been deserving of your love?
I will never understand how someone can find such joy in ripping apart another
Why do you laugh when you hear my screams?
Why do you smile when you see my tears?
...Friday 10th November 2023 4:51 pm
All things must come to an end
A hollow silence
In the vast expansion
The dark void beckons
And the unknown stalks
Time stands still here
On the edge of it all
Staring into oblivion
The end is near
And it is inevitable
But do not fear
As all things come into being
All things must come
To an end
To begin again
Ever changing
Ever growing
This is the Great Journey.
Friday 10th November 2023 4:58 am
November 2023 Collage Poem: Boneyard Blues
Locate the source of the timebomb girl
back in the boneyard of strange events
a cargo of coffins
the dead unmoored from their resting bays
In the bone yard of writers we laughed
as only poets can do, and then make notes.
An emotional time-bomb is the deadly thing
Shadows sharp and black Lovers who sing
with heartbeats sucking in the air
panting like old dogs
...Friday 10th November 2023 12:19 am
🪔 Dwelling Diwali 🕯️
Sight
Diwali blazes with a dazzling display
A celestial concert, pure festive array
Chromatic fusions of Rangoli art
Colorful hues ignite each heart.
Sound
Fireworks crackle and pop,
Music fills every hop,
Melodies that bring solace and cheer
Echoing through time, banishing fear
Smell
The aroma of incense fills the room
With cheerful peers in joyful bl...
Thursday 9th November 2023 8:42 pm
Suella Braverman
Burn the tents
With the homeless inside
Attack a march
Calling for peace
Gather your stormtroopers
To march down the streets
A Nazi pogrom
In all but name
The torch has been lit,
To burn down the streets
of London, your town, neighbourhood
and brain
mulling over…
“Suella who’s the next
person, group and cause
Should...
Thursday 9th November 2023 3:09 pm
Death
I fear not Death.
I see the mists of the dead, not.
I see nothing.
I fear not nothing.
I hear them call.
They are whispering my name
They whisper ‘Come’.
Lord, why do I now fear?
Lord, what is wrong?
Only the dead know.
The answers await me there.
Only I am too scared to understand
Only I am too scared to discover
For I am just a man.
(This was wrote when I was actually 17 a ...
Wednesday 8th November 2023 9:17 pm
a mighty win
fear is the grandest of fear
fear is the grandest of a mighty winner
a winner is a mighty winner
a winner is a grandest winner
grand is grandest of fear
grand is grandest of a winner
a win is a mighty win
a win is a grand win
knowledge is power
knowledge is a grand power
knowledge is a mighty power
a win is within a win
a win is within fear
a win is within knowledge
a win is with...
Wednesday 8th November 2023 8:02 pm
Beautiful Queen
Manon French Canadian Beautiful Queen
Sparkling eyes angelic serene
For every Queen must have a crown
God blessed her
A platinum garland was sent to her
God's Purest most stunning jewel was lent to her
Breathtaking beauty too precious for earth
Stefany crowned from birth
Melissa sweet as the honey in her name
Honey bee she gives strength to her Queen
Manon, Melissa he...
Tuesday 7th November 2023 2:27 am
Also by Sarah Louise mcnee:
Culture defined |Sway
I sway left, I sway right
Cradling you in my arms
Shushing like the waves
Wishing you goodnight.
I move left, I move right
Dodging your little hands
As we tickle and tumble
Play with no end in sight.
I teach left, I teach right
One day you’ll just get it.
Shoes, socks and gloves
Dad duties become light.
I’ll go left, you’ll go right.
You’ll text me you’re well
You’re on...
Monday 6th November 2023 12:00 pm
What is evil
What now, what is evil?
I’m sure we can agree
if killing just one child is awful,
thousands more must be
evil’s outright apogee.
No problem pegging evil.
But how to deal with evil?
Find the men (we know
it’s mainly men). Pronounce those people
lowest of the low.
Blazon what they did, and show
those men to be pure evil.
Now, certain who is evil,
you’...
Wednesday 1st November 2023 10:31 am
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