As I write this poem, the final of the month
Reading back at venture and discovering self
Knowing the blended life that is shown on the shelf
Little telling stories about my living front

Being sexual being, and being prideful mom
A hard working lady to a caring partner
All facets that displays my fragile ground marker
Towards a smiling face from hectic to the calm

I hope you enjoyed ri...

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a low sun teased me out

from a pool of shadow

searching for signs of new life

even as the soil plotted against it

overhead a plane like a silver pen

wrote a lazy trail

scattering high hopes

dead leaves in disorderly fashion

a classroom of empty heads

awaited my rough comb

and a crisp goodbye. 

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I try to be there by your side throughout the year’s but now the time has come for you to be by my side through this incurable illness I am dealing with but I’m left out in the cold waiting for you and maybe that will change before I’m dead

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For 20 years I cried on this day 

I checked out on this day 

I hated this day 

I mourned on this day 

A little girl kept quite about this day 

A little girl felt ashamed on this day 

A little girl that was drowning in her own blood on this day  

A little girl had to pick herself up so her little brothers wouldn't see

A little girl no more

Dug up holes to bury it

This ...

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Respect is little to ask for
To remember is to respect
To respect is to remember
Those who paid an ultimate debt

When generations come together
To acknowledge not to mourn
It gives out a special feeling
That’s calm sincere and warm

Hats off to those who turn out
In rain or wind or snow
In aid of those who cared so much
They joined up and decided to go

They went to different place...

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If its yours

You won't ever need to chase it

It will find you when you least expect it

And you won't ever need to ask it to stay

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A bronze Teddy bear rests at its base.
A little child's doll looks forlorn in face.
Sitting in all weathers, patiently to wait.
A doll who's missing her little playmate.

I see a victims discarded walking cane.
Another life lost, another buried name.
2 fingers on a wrist watch frozen in time.
A set of keys lie beside this 'traffic sign'

A pair of glasses, smashed on contact.
A lonely c...

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I went into that same awful dream.

That sad night movie still repeating

to this trapped audience.

Our empty bed long recoiled

from the warm spot where you once slept.

The house bereft of everything

but the dust of our together days.

Nothing to hear but the beat of my breath,

the breeze that diluted your scent centuries ago.

Then you shake me awake

‘Are you O...

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I have seen our souls escaping,

In my dream state. 

Bearing witness as they swiftly drift through the night breeze with ease and it nearly appears as though they are...

retracing,

Their,

precarious steps across the sands of time but before the hands of time they were headed toward the City of Lost Ways, located deep inside of a jungle which has somehow lost its days, and yet the su...

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Why do they always think they know better . Why not give others a chance . Thinking their always right when all could be wrong . They are rude and sometimes uncaring  . Won't let others speak has they find . Thinking their thoughts are the only ones listened to . So others keep quiet and find . It's best to jump in and be forcefull . Be brave speak your mind , have your say . It's better than not ...

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Snob!
That's what my parents always called me with a smirk
But I wasn't
I was just different

The highlight of my week wasn't watching Knight Rider like the other boys
It was Wonder Woman
Imagining myself wearing her gold tiara and bracelets
Her lasso of truth
Spinning round and saving the world
Then going back to being normal Diana Prince

My older brother bought me Action Man
And ...

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Motivation

I'm really impressed with how 

professional everyone is

Despite where your eyes go

It takes a lot to wake up 

Every morning and 

Do what you're told

Despite what you know 

Of the world

I like that tie 

You're wearing

That's a wonderful

Hairstyle

Are we ready to

Make money

Are we ready to

Monopolize

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Guarded and cocooned was I,

In a shell , believed to be built in stone .

Years of shelter from the warmth 

And distances from hearts ,

Had indeed induced a chillness soaked within .

He broke the shell, as if it were of thin air ,

His enthusiasm made me lie bare .

Apprehension and disbelief lasted a while ,

But, the excitement of a whole new world at my feet ,

And  t...

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my wish ing well dee per by night
the moon a pen ny tum bling in
through cease less re vo lu tions I
lay as un con scious on the floor
some one laid a coat o ver me
the old in tox i ca ted rogue
up to my neck sink ing dee per
I hoped to wake un a ware of
where I lay be fore the thick et
of par tic u la ri ty has
me pinned in place like a spi der
or fly on the web just to praise
the o...

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i. Spring

The joy that springs as dormant world revives,

Renewing all that winter’s sleep had lost.

The vivid green that sprouts and quickly thrives,

When freed from chilling chains of snow and frost.

The ice begins to melt, the streams to surge

In spate, to swell the rivers to the seas;

They pass, and feed the flowers that emerge,

And succour the renewal of the t...

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Your eyes supply the unfortunate clue
The uneven pathway of tears
Give away the hurt you have been through
Ripped apart, picked apart your heart

When something so beautiful has been broken
It can never be as it once was
Put back together and  possibly re-awoken
Held in place by sheer will and hope

No matter how much of your heart you give me
I will respect it
No matter how much of yo...

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For all the aging punks . With apologies to Elvis Costello.

Oh I just don't know where to begin:

we don't want it forever

so it's now or never.

We should keep them hanging on

till the investors have gone

and make sure they can’t get in

without a police chaperone.

chorus:

Because accidents will happen

if we let the frackers win

and we’ll all be the vi...

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The Glowering Mists of Autumn

As I travel life's journey I'm often-times struck

By a vision both novel and possibly true; that serenity

In a dangerous world without luck,

Is impossible; but is there a temporal divinity?

Perhaps the root causes of wonder and joy

Really are in the sky, or on Dante's fine peak,

Or my fireside, where the dance won't annoy

In the compa...

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Belief 

leads me

through the trapdoor 

of

my

mind

into the cell

No walls

save for my 

own convictions 

Life fed

through 

a hatch in

the 

closed 

door 

to freedom

No bars

save for 

myself

Sentence

to solitary 

within the

convictions

of

my

Own mind

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Beige walls stand empty where original artworks once hung
A woman, beyond her years in mind and body, sits at her desk
Staring at a screen that, despite vast knowledge at her fingertips
Is empty
The cloud of cognizance that enveloped her has cleared
Ridiculed by those she trusted
"Over medicated"
No more pills
No more gange
Nothing to help control the demons within her mind
There is no f...

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Letters with Words

Sky gets brighter

Black dog appears

Calling my name

Whispering as he nears

Words softened, falling

One by one, letters

Clinched, left broken

Fragments and pieces

Captured and glued

A story is breaking

Two sides reconciling

To harmony and healing

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Sitting in thoughts, deep thoughts, hoping that tomorrow will bring a better day. Tired of sitting at home, thinking, deeply, in thoughts. Looking at my phone, wondering if, i will get that call to say there's a job vacancy. Come along for an interview. That one job that will make a big change in my life, a life I long for, a life that will give me all I desire and more.

And as the day closes a...

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Where did He put it?

Why can't I find it?

Is it in the dew drop on the sharpest tentacle of the grass?

Or is that tree hiding it in the 90th ring in its bark?

Do I have to find an 8th sea in the quest to have it?

Or should I look for it in the drop of blood of the ant squished under a giant's foot?

Did you have it as a legacy or got it in inheritance?

Did you somehow lose it a...

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I'm afraid to kiss you
Because of the fear of being left breathless
Gasping for air 
The theif you are stealing life from my lungs

I'm afraid to leave you
Because without you near I'd surely fall apart
Picking up the pieces 
The craftsman you are, putting me back together

I'm afraid to be loved by you 
Because of the unrealistic, idealistic picture you paint of me
Every brush stroke
...

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Dare i to write a masterpiece of never ending rhyme? Where story flows and emtions grow with every single line?

keep writing and writing until one page somehow turns to four, nd four keeps on growing until suddenly there are four more?

And try as i might i just cant stop from letting the ink flow. Everything i write will link and just seemingly appear to go,

For example when starting to w...

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A Fire Screen for Learning

A card table and fire screen combination

a wedding gift to my parents

made entirely by hand

A woven tapestry of an alpine scene

in a wooden frame covered in glass

Every evening I would remove it

from its place in the hearth

re arrange it into a low table

on which my school homework was placed

I sat cross legged within easy rea...

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If I were a terrier

life would be merrier

If I were a hyena

I'd be served a subpoena

If I were a cobra

I'd rarely be sobra

If I were an otter

I'd behave like a rotter

If I were a cow

grass I wouldn't allow

If I were a hippo

I'd go in for a dippo

If I were a vulture

I'd acquire some real culture

If I were a rat

I'd fart at the cat

If I were a cheetah

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My pain

No more vibrations in my heart

Those beating are on a routine task

No monsoon or spring in my valley

Those changes are purely seasonal 

Why then I pray for a rain

Is it to seed burdened pain in my heart? 

Why then I cry for a rain

Is it to hide my tears behind? 

I am nothing, neither a proud vacuum, nor a filled ocean

A journey from me arou...

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summer ages with
a sudden hour
thin and
sun-softened

words follow
like leaves
each their own
separate turning

my sister tells me
what i don't remember

morning softens
bleeding into
a new light

and she begins
again

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Sometimes, before I fall asleep,
I close my eyes and try to remember,
Hoping to drift away in the comfort 
Of our memories; the time we stole.
From where, I don't know. 
But I am sure of this 
Instead of peaceful bliss
I receive a kick in my stomach
Too painful to describe
It reaches my chest 
Giving me shortness of breath 
All sense of comfort is lost
Somewhere in the time that we sto...

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I’d just cleaned up the clagnuts of a right humongous dump

When my reverie it got disturbed and on the door a thump

Announced the cleaner’s coming so I quickly let her in;

She raced hot-foot into the bog and bent beside the rim

Proceeding with her bogbrush to scour the crap within;

I saw we shared a fetish which is difficult to find

So I lifted up her tabard and I blobbed her fro...

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ANOLINI

Anolini – pasta shells stuffed with meat

And cooked in broth, is what we’re eating;

Steam rises from plates but there’s no speaking,

We sip Chianti to moderate the heat

The first to break silence admits defeat;

Parmesan a generous sprinkling,

Grated black pepper our noses crinkling;

Each Christmas a ritual we repeat.

This dish from the mountains of Ital...

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This is a window into me

Look and you may see

Smudges of yourself

And reflections of society

Windows in the form of

Framed soliloquies

Exhibitions for free

Clean my glass chalice

Clean my glass cauldron

Clean my glass coffin

A voyeurs gathering

Windows into me

Take a look and you may see

Smudges of yourself

And reflections of society

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Love ain't shit if it ain't a little reckless

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Her thoughts in the water
eyes the colour of the moon
mouth bubbling aether's froth
trying to speak, to breath

Eyes the colour of the moon
wording quick ancient tongues
trying to speak, to breath
ebbing loose her essence

Wording quick ancient tongues
mouth bubbling aether's frother
ebbing loose her essence
thoughts in the water 

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What should I take with me to winter?

The warmth of your cheeks or the ice in your veins?

Through Cold hearts

Flow cold stares

When cruel intentions were small embers crying for life

Everyone of your kisses fuelled its flames

At every touch a chill

At every intersection I assessed this impasse

Masked as a self inflicted wound

Bombarded by over valued assumptions

I cav...

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‪Unconscious torture. 

Memories cyclically taunting me.

A dream stained pillow.

Caressing the caged audience screaming within my mind.

Agony unrelenting. 

Smears of black accompany tear tattoos beneath my parched eyes.
Twilight, my best friend.

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Still with the written word - my comic-crime novel of the above title is now available via Amazon (Kindle

version)  plus a "look-in feature/ while print copies can be ordered from the above and other major retailers.  I've managed to include some rhyme/verse at various points in my story and that pleases me.

ISBN 9781786232502 

Christmas is coming!

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It was twilight,

blaze peeping the pane.

All set to fly,

and to break the chain.

All of the sudden,

she was free.

Of so-called fetter,

and of life's spree.

Without any frontier,

without any irk.

She was at bliss,

even enjoying the quirk.

To reach the top,

let's sit at vent.

Be ready to fly,

and eradicate the dent!

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This is short and to the point.

life.

no the Earth.

The Earth has given you two choices:

The first being as a scorpion trapped in the deceptive tangles of a well made web, a lemming in man's cycle of destruction, of both the mind and the physical.

The second being as a frog, cherishing the habitation and nourishment received by the lily pad that springs forth of the moist bed, allow...

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for amy

kitchen

my gran clears beer lines,

caustic fizzes in the sink;

round the kitchen table -

my baby walker now a car;

the scent of daytime beer.

the dog smells dead fowl;

yelps, pines for running,

my dad’s van and Sundays;

feathers as death’s proof;

heavy, high, hanging flesh.

vicious grins and woollen hair,

pagan gods of carved turnip,

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Every breath I take 

Every second alone that passes on

Never before I had felt so little 

Never before you had gone

Had I ever said that much

Why couldn't you see the truth when everything was there 

Nothing was there to hide

Everything that I had to abide

Every time I see your face now

I see only your smile 

You have gone so far 

That only your shadow speaks with ...

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When they grow up they dress in a new life:

a family of new suits and shirts to wear.

And the ties are new too.

He strides out on his new catwalk

proudly wearing his new self,

blind to the day the cloth may unravel

or fade or lose its style.

What will clothe him then?

I shall not grace his shoulders again:

I am the coat he has outworn

in my pockets are his memories

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The lamp lit up
The dark room
Eyes half-awaked
A blank stare
At blinding light
Like a ray
Shooting the self
Capturing
Reasons to hate
The good life
That must have been
When one day
Faced a road's bend
Beheld pain
In the mirror
Bleeding tears
Drowning the sight
Of real love
Of a real man
Worth to fight
For forever
Beyond death
And to a dream
Of a life
Of love beyond
Everyth...

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I wish I could say that I want you to be happy.

But truthfully,

I want you to miss me at 3 am 

when your bed is cold.

I want you to feel sad

when you're in the car

and my favorite song comes on.

I want you to realize 

that I'm not around.

I want you to notice

the traces of me everywhere.

I want you to feel this

just because

I'm too selfish.

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( a section of quatrains excerpted from a larger narrative poem)

The sun which once warmed the morning dew,
Gave my breezes the scent of thyme,
Now it barely climbs above the yew
Spreading over that grave on the chine.

And what if I danced now before you,
As the waves along the shore?
Would you know that he did adore you,
Feel the warmth of his love like before?

Oh Annie! Soon the l...

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RE

In days of old, at the dawn of time
when life was microbes in primal slime
Mother Nature in contemplation
declared the start of repeat creation.
  Varieties of life, will grow and mate
in a unique way to perpetuate
 forms of life with various span
plus one special item, “Intelligent man”
where worldly creatures, whatever of station
 will in death...feed the Earth,
for a future gene...

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As the year moves ever closer to it’s end,
I wish to call out to each and every friend,
to say I wish them all peace and goodwill,
with plenty to eat & even some wine to spill.

The greatest gift I could wish to see for us all,
would be peace and love forever, so that we’d recall,
it started one Christmas and was then always adored,
I believe if we share goodwill we never would be bored.

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Look in the mirror, who do you see

You call your self by the name 

Is it really what you feel? 

You judge the shape of yours 

But can you see within? 

Start pointing things to change

Why can you stop being mean?  

Accept the beauty that you are 

And see yourself us shying Star

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Since that mans lady left him, he's not been living sober, he spends a lot of time talking to the inhabitants of his shoulders , one tells him to "give up son you know you life is over" the other says "stand strong mate you've always been a soldier"

What's done is done you've had your fun, now I'm afraid it's time to move on"

I watch him wondering around in time, pretending and tel...

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As an organism, I’m tied to natural

rhythms, natural scales, natural life cycles.

And I sit in my concrete home, watching sci-fi

LED technology, drinking a liquid

synthesised in a tank, which I’m not sure really

is an actual drink, although the flavour is

supreme.  So I wonder where does reality

come in?  That I am natural, I rely on

the sun to make my food, the air to brea...

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My dad's favourite shoes

He saved them for best

He wore them just once

As we laid him to rest

Dedicated to the loving memory of Jack Evans; love you dad x

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They were living the dream-

Their dream:

All candles and sea hair

In Carmel-by-the-Sea,

Where crisp breezes flow

Through wispy ocean trees;

Where they lie in tequila sunrises

Finding each other in daydreams

Of tangled cotton sheets and hair.

In a web of silk and satin sand,

Skin in moonlit waters shone;

He laughed of sailing to the sea,

She talked of drivin...

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I have no reasons to stop, no reasons to halt,
I have no reasons to cry over my fault.

I have no reason to fear, ah! no depression;
I have no reasons to regret
Or betray my passion.

Life often puts me in a hell,
Yet I find a grace,
When it pushes me unto heaven
I don't lose my face.

I might have got no respect
Not a penny fame.
Yet I am not without a critic
Nor without a dirty ...

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I guess them cigarettes just caught up to you
You watch me grow up into a man 
Thank you for not letting my mom adopt me out
I know things won't be the same without you

Can you not go yet
I know it's selfish to ask you to stay
But you always cared 
I just wanted to thank you for that

I don't know what to do right now
This water just keeps pouring out of my eyes
And I don't know how t...

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Photos tell a sunny

tale

Seldom are the 

dark moments

recorded

As I age I find comfort in that

Better to let ugly experiences

rest in bad dreams

For that is what they feel like...

not real

Such a gift that is for those

who know how to let go

of their nightmares

and cling to sweet memories.

By Lynn Hahn

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Your smile melts me,

With just a laugh I'm yours.

I see your eyes bright up and it drives me wild,

Releasing the butterflies,

Allowing them to fly with joy.

I said I love you,

As you simply smiled and hugged me.

Don't let go...

I will miss your warmth,

Your way of making me feel safe.

Tell me to stay the night.

Let me fall asleep in your arms,

Let me f...

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...

so slowly I walk alone
like the cat in the love song
you two will meet all the same
in the dust of my heart beat.
so as I say my farewell
two friends or lovers
as far as i can tell
I'll catch my last train all the same
so good bye
so good bye.

he wants to be with you I know
he sez it in songs of dreams.
no morals for the bells
as they, they chime for you

we can sit and l...

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Love

A term I seldom use

Summer clothes

Packed in tight

Memories

A voice declares

"Doors closing"

Faces forward

Such quiet

A hushed phenomena 

What would our ancestors 

make of this crushed

closet?

Strangers allowing strangers

thier Intimate space

Expelled air 

The body's breath

A nervous cough suppressed 

A weary sigh

eyes meeting 

eyes ...

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Milestone or

             Millstone?

Holding me back

        or

Propelling me forward?

Measuring my progress

        or

Reminding me of missed opportunities?

A rite of passage

        or

A gift drowned in the middle passage?

A lost visage of my lost cultural heritage?

How do I know when I am a woman?

When does a man know to begin to desire me?

How do I nam...

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The daily cycle, 

The Monotonous grind,

The constant desire just to unwind.


When everything but that occupies your thoughts,

Life is but a burden,

Of that I am sure.


Whether you remember or not,

It's release is so sweet,

Not once more,

But a twenty four hour repeat.

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The music of the axe

 can be heard half a mile away

singing and swinging

As it falls and bites

The even rhythm of sweat and spittle

In the big gnarled and calloused hands

Marked with drizzle from sinewed flesh

Every blow counted across

Arms legs and back

revealed being almost as old

As the tree, itself

among great searing knotted oaks

That look on through noddin...

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Five words can be all it takes to set your mind at ease for a while.

Great, I'm not forgotten you'll think.

I am of interest.

But time passes.

Time heals all wounds?

Time brings with it opportunity for worry.

Time is the enemy of the impatient.

Time feeds the anxious like oxygen feeds a flame, fuelling the panic until it burns so brightly it consumes everything in it...

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I woke this morning
 before dawn
In the deep
 quiet of the night.

A gentle breeze was telling me
 "Go back to sleep"

But I was restless.

I rose thirsty, thinking of water
 but found myself walking
Past the kitchen,
 to the back hall.

I put on my sandals and left.

Walking east, I marveled
 at the brightness of the Morning Star
"Phosphorus" you had called it once;
 it seemed...

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Zimbabwe, November 2017

I'm not a fan of coups

But if this one ousts Mugabe

Then, woohoo!

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41 million casualties since the war began

John Condon among them, died like a man

He was only 18 when he met his demise

Ypres, Belgium he finally closed his eyes

We shall remember

He wasn’t the youngest to serve in this plight

In Serbia Momčilo Gavrić claimed that right

Promoted to corporal instead of being at school

At eight years old he was the armies fuel.

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you fit tightly around me
chosing to be close to your heart
holding you closely in my arms
praying never to loose you again

every second of a minute
every minute of an hour
every hour of a day
squeezing memories forever

never will yesterday be the same
for now is now that feels so great
to seize everything good or bad
nonetheless, all of this is worth it. :)

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The Saints even have a diabolical laughter as they watch my Angels cry. This Halo of Death has become the horror of my mind. Anguish has but a shrill scream that exposes my grave. Is it true, I will be buried alive? Chocking on the chains of my Angels Casket, gasping from hidden Sorrow, my Reaper shrieks from within. Dancing with his glee awakens the Beast. Volatile is his character. Shards of gla...

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The days grew lull and lull

So did the yellow walls

Trapped in them was a beautiful soul which had

Dreams that got faded dull

Wondering if she got stuck in the fall

Satisfying the needs of her faithful

Alas! Sighed her ambitions in dismal

Is this the fate of every girl Trapped in the strands of marital tinsel?

No! Shouted the relentless hope from the dark tunnel

"I may n...

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I
Am
Deflated
I
Once
Soared
High

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From the front at least

A beautiful victorian dresser

From behind

The ugly truth

Assembled from wooden orange crates

The company name stamped

Telling of a former

More humble existence

Two little drawers

One at each side

Gunmetal latch handles

Age worn

From opening and closing

Hold family secrets

Make up

Lipstick stumps

Snaps from Blackpool ...

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On a cool summer night when there is no breeze blowing

no horns or cars whizzing by

nobody talking on the sidewalk

no engines running

Nothing

I am alone with my thoughts

and for a moment I forget who I am

I forget I have been murdered by my memories

and I realize I would give up every good thing in my life

just to forget the bad from before

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The advantaged advance.

As they supply the music

"It's a fine romance."

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to you,

i am nothing.

every memory

every laugh 

every smile

every tear

every mistake

every argument

every compliment

is nothing.

i could never compare

to weed

according to you.

i could never compare

to autism and down syndrome jokes

according to you.

my love for you

the fact that you're my best friend

the things you've help...

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THE BALLAD OF THE SUPPLY TEACHER

I’m going to burst, I need a pen,

I had it first, say that again!

I’m feeling sick, You got a tissue?

Watch this trick, I heard her diss you…

It’s boring this, I hate this school

Can I see Miss, I play the fool.

I always leave before the end

I just sit here, beside my friend.

I won’t change seats, you can’t make me

What ...

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We learned so fast

To hurt each other

As children do

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On The Other Side

stagnant darkness snakes the sky

shadows a silence lullabied by

those still allowed to sing

the echoing sirens who tied our hands

prescribe a quiet time

slow down they say

weave space to dream

but there is nothing left to dream of

to dream we must disturb

the choking

poisoned

scattered crumbs

that led us like hungry child...

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The galaxy of the heart also pierces
on beautiful memories..

Pipette starlight buds open
Atemporal filaments spark and flower
Rekindle the There-Here Duality Mrs
Time's double-slit ricochet tickles
the visitation re-flash miraculous 
         often disconcerting ~ thus vanquished
The swerving memory lens 
swivels one-eighty
and simultaneously back
                           flash...fl...

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do any of them 

miss me?

do they regret 

that which never happened 

do they remember? 

fantasize?

wonder?

it's probably just me

who does 

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caught up in a moment
feelings turn into actions
with hesitated movement
yet so full of intentions

when did it start or begin
we didn't know
where would it lead us
we didn't know

all we knew was to let it happen
to kill all of our lingering curiousity
to never question the what ifs
to lose the control we've maintained

the answer was always unclear
yet we could feel that it's rea...

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I write this on a rainy day

i guess you can never take the pain away but

what matters most is what the pain teaches you,

something deeper than the ocean

it makes you realize the real you.

They say pain comes from the truth and the lie

was invented to cut a corner and make everything seem

smooth but in my experience the lie is the truth and 

the truth is the lie because I te...

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Sneaking out at night to lie with your virgin girlfriend under the stars.

Seeing her face in the crowd at your High School football game.

Having a huge group of jock friends.

You never experienced any of that.

It's over. You lost at life.

Time to man up and become a provider.

Time to downsize and save for retirement.

Time to Gillette shave your face and become...

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Shamed

I’m hard-up, poor

I look it

So I keep my head down

And shuffle, carefully not touching

Beautiful, clever people:
They must be

Beautiful and clever

To be so rich

Thank God – - -

Is there one? – - -

I’m not yet about to

Sit outside McDonalds

With an open cap

And a dog

Summer’s good: nice and warm.

Winter’s better.

I’m shamed.

...

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Myself I have to blame
After declaring“I have severed
Our relation, intolerant to
Her theatrical and self-seeking love game!”
Back to square one, under
The pretext of sympathy, of course,
Buckling under her sight and voice
I acted the same,like a moth to a flame!

Though my siblings and friends
Advised, “A leech, if she has no other intent
Then, inconsiderate, she'll bleed you dry
Wh...

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Before dawn.

All the locking mechanisms went missing and the guns have vanished along with them.

Fumbling-dumbfounded-investigating the metal loops where pins used to hold secure--but now the doors have vanished too!

The crisp, grey winter air bites like growing alarm and there a beautiful female figure takes slow shape from the desolate wood; encompassing what once was an ...

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She who seeks shall find,

Tasting the fruit of essence

She becomes alive!

O wild wombman, I see the passion

I see the stars in your eyes

The dreams, the hope -- hidden deep inside

It took a lot to bring you forth,

Shedding the layers, I so carefully placed around me

Breaking down the walls, exploring myself

Deeper and Deeper

Then I realized,

You are ...

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Bing bang boom 

The lie was discovered in the room

Bing bang bong

All those that believed are gone 

What once was said can not be renewed 

Let this be a lesson for all of you 

The danger was not with the truth 

But instead the darkness that consumes 

Filling you up with your thoughts and connecting those imaginary dots 

Instead of floating higher, your pulled d...

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Where starts

this obsession?

Surrounded by words, lines,

How can one just explain all these

affairs?

Thomas,

Under Milk Wood,

Or Armitage, perhaps.

At school with War poets, Shakespeare,

Marlowe.

Finding

prose with the late,

Great Brautigan. Hearing

McMillan's radio programme,

The Verb.

Maybe

poetry’s Peel?

Does poetry's appeal

c...

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rejoice

I remember her eyes

ever gone a grip sudden regret

I never wanted to go I tripped can't forget

Still absent in a void once you were there

long hair across my face  you made me aware

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I accused her of pinching my dinner

She said "you think you're a winner"

But how can I love some old schmuck.

Who can't even defend his crisp duck!

( for reference see `N'Shya....and me`......posted 9th July 2017)

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Gossip is simmering internal fathoms deep

So crazy for you I’m petrified by love

Witches watch the children cry,

As the jazz man freezes at what is here,

The Tesco Ghost floats like a butterfly

But gets stung by a speeding lorry

Freezing weapons like bullets

Then swallows wanting to come home

Crazy one-upmanship,

Leaves no more to be said

Frozen in...

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& I stroked her leg she said stop yer giving me sensations

I faltered at her temptations

Smoked a cigarrette

Burnt my regret

An offering I overplay

& I saw the clouds roll in on a clear day

& I’m hurt

& I’m torn

& I’m ragged 

I’m alone

& I Iead myself on

With no fucking collar on

A walk round the block

No bags big enough to pick up the shit that I drop

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we shared our fears
our ambitions 
how we felt about love

in a world this cold
it's hard not to feel so alone

paranoia finally got the best of me
she knows i wont rest in peace
we always knew this day would come 
a fate filled with grief

id give anything 
to hear you say goodbye
one more time

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Why do you always tear at me,

like claws removing flesh?

Yet hide behind the guise of help

like you're putting "lies" to death?

We both know you're the liar,

the accuser and the fraud.

Falsifying honesty and truth -

playing at god.

I've never heard a good thing from you,

you've only ever held me back;

put me down, picked me apart,

acquainted me with what I lack.

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The warm waxon wood of tables
Lined in Heroes' hallways, notched
by us:
Hatchet traders,
Toothless Raiders
Deserter hellhounds chasing sunsets
Roping and reigning 
Cheating and feigning 
Silverfang'd denizens of dives and drag shows
FREAKS
Wrangled beneath
The white hot board of kinship
growing like mould in spaces 
secret and sacred, sold sages
sharing scar and syringe, rattling cag...

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Sanding in the shower

Thinking of my woes

Comtemplating life

Water circling my toes

Washing only take a minute

Thoughts and dreams much longer

I love this time for me

It makes me feel much stronger

A knock at the door

Breaks me from my reverie

"Mum, are you done yet?"

Ah, back to reality

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Fiery bronze

and copper-white cliffs rise

motionless

against the mighty

oCean blue

Black granite sentinels stand

in anxious waters

unmarred

in austere pose

Restless and daring

the waters thrash

amid rock

sand and stone

whetting a wilted past

Blankets of worn bells

cling tightly to the black

clay bedrock

in the shadow of towerin...

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woods

the woods where i can blast my music              

and problems away.Where no one can              

destroy  me from being me.Where i can             

have parties and not get in trouble.Where           

i can take a walk and never get lost.Where           

i can feel the fresh air and hear the silence

thats never there.The woods where i can

stay up and n...

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              ...Insecurity... 

Apply one drop,

if humble is the desired adjustment.

Two compounding the voodoo charm of this magical elixir!

WARNING. Do not apply under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Doing so may effect your ability to operate heavy emotions.

If this occurs induce seclusion and call your lifeline.

Read Product information sheet enclosed in packaging bef...

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Hi all, some of you may remember I was planning to pull together a collection of my poems written over the last 10 years.  Well after doing that the sympathetic people at Palewell Press have decided to publish the collection this December.

The poems are night themed, either written at night or about the night. 

While it's not a giant literary event it's an exciting opportunity and I owe a lo...

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Like every other divine, supernatural idea,
I would like to think you come on a chariot of black horses,
But you behold a hallow of sadness,
A shower of dripping tears,
You carve your way, out of the fear people hold,
You drink on those helpless minds and restless souls,
You knock like the wind and enter like the whirlpool,
On every step you play peekaboo,
On every turn you grip tight and ...

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One of my favorite poets, F Scott Fitzgerald, once said 'there are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice'. And that's where we went wrong- where I went wrong, and I blame myself. It's hard to smile today. My whole being is just so sad. Lost. Empty. Lifeless. I've been trying to keep myself busy to get my mind off of you, but nothing helps. Even when I sleep, you're waiting...

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A little poem off the top of my head. Not edited, written v.fast. 

Remembering 

Why should we bother?
To think about the souls
who fought in WARS
when peace is our goal.

Why should we bother?
To find a hour to spare
To witness their support 
when we weren’t there

Why should we bother?
To think about the tears
Of all the men and women
who sacrificed their fears

We should alw...

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I hooked onto the face of a psychopath executing flagellation
ate his lobster raw
and its eyes for his eyes
his damp face from my white meat spit
elastic banded claws dropped on embroidered brogues
in Monaco gamblers we trust
rise over here and I’ll hammer you

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So I guess that they've imprisoned us into this predetermined preposition 

When the truth is there so blatantly but we can't help but not to listen 

Because ignorance is bliss so we'll stay blissfully unaware 

As to the GMO's in all our food and the geo engineering in the air 

I suppose we'll go organic and refuse the water from the tap 

What about the metals likened to a subtle che...

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Dark skin like a summer shade,
dressed as he took me on a date.
A Rose's trait is pretty rare.
Blossoming if nursed with great care. 
His Hair, a work of art only I could impair.
He guides me through this foam floor
Feeling his hands down to my core, 
my love galore caused a sudden uproar. 

You shine like the lights in december
Autumn, please take us back to september,
falling leaves i...

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The waves of sleep toss me around, the bed’s warm embrace keeps me still and my worries keep me seasick. But there are so many worse feelings when the seaman finally arrives upon the land. How they will miss the sea, how they will have phantom swayings. I’d rather stay in this abusive marriage with the sea.

It is 5pm.

I can’t be honest to myself if were to say I want to get out of ...

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Down at Tit-Squash Central,

we're waiting for our scans.

Our tops are on and off and on

and off and on, again.

Our boobs are lubed and drawn on,               

we're told to 'just relax',

then tits are clamped securely

within the x-ray's grasp.

My boobs are horizontal now

and flatter than before.

It feels as though they might explode,

I think they've gone...

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There is no secret, there is no hurt,

Pure friendship does not ever curt.

Little there is to tell, little there is to ask,

Pure friendship forever lasts.

Sheer trust and belief, sacrifice in times of need,

Pure friendship does not ever show greed.

Utter confidence, no reason for a protest,

Pure friendship does not need confess.

Big dreams, utter faith,

Pure friendship al...

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Now I know
What to do
Now I know
How to move

Alone to do
And nothing to prove
That I made so much mess
Incase you ask and interpret
All the things I have done
And all the things I haven't

All the things I should
But afraid to try

I know that I am weak
I know that I am freak
Too much intension
But not much attention
On the things I needed to 
And too much affection
On the pe...

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There are many things I wish for.

I wish to fly free like a bird.

I wish I could come and go like a cat.

I wish I could be wild like a horse.

I wish I could be prideful like a lion.

But for some reason,

What I wish for the most,

Is for you to be by my side.

I wish I could see you without being judged.

I wish I could joke around with you as though we were friends.

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They tell you to try with all of your might,

But it's the things that you least expect stealing your sleep at night.

As we descend into the darkness of winter, my mind is lit up with thoughts on 5th November,

I look back, I remember you, I remember

.

Walking to Oxford Street all alone,

the people that pass by, they all seem like clones.

It's not long until they have somewhere ...

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You insist upon living till the life you’d live
has damned you, your intransigence
forcing you on like a train that pounds
its rhythms across some hard white terrain.

Adulterous and anachronistic, a stubborn
glow illuminates your doomed affair
as when, like a ghost reborn, Strelnikov
told you: The private life is dead,

his rectitude a new kind of purity
whose thought is doctrinaire,
...

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Raindrops tumbling down my gutter

Tears stream down my cheek but,

I do not utter a sound.

Why cry when everyone is asleep? 

So I can let out all the pain and,

hopefully the man upstairs is listening to me.

Please stop these thoughts from lingering.

The repeating images of the things that never seem 

to haunt me when the sun is beaming. 

Only when I'm dreaming, 

do the...

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Faoin trá seo de ghaineamh agus sliogáin

Feicim íomhá na farraige rollta.

Frámaí agus seithí talún nua-aimsithe nua

Na fairsinge leathan seo; Siúilim feadh an aill:

Fágann an duine ar thaobh na gaoithe,

Trilobites leabaithe, faoi bhun mo chosa

Grianchloch agus Muscovite ón eibhir

Na gaoithe agus na dtonnta a thug an t-am

Fóicphointí farraige, carraigeacha i bhfolach, phluai...

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The chaos in my mind
is killing me,
my life, a bad trip
on LSD
a rush to the brain,
serotonin, dopamine
all at once shining
blue light
a mind so open,
a heart so full,
peace,
such peace,
the sweetest sleep.

Memories are mirages,
I cannot reach.

A sinking feeling,
a dread inside around I go,
again and again,
down the rabbit hole,
just once more,
one last time
looking for a ...

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The way I love you is Cancer. 

And not in the romantic way, but in the deadly way. The way one single cell multiplies and corrupts it's neighboring cells. The way you seem to stay even when the doctors cut you out. It's scary how even when I think I'm cured, all it takes is a single thought and I'm falling in love all over again. I keep going back to that one single cell. I'm not saying your lo...

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i just think it is funny that

my body cannot be viewed

by a man

without him making a comment

i just think it is funny that

i have to cross the street

to avoid his words in my ear

i just think it is funny that

 he cannot look at

my hair

 my legs

my body

without sucking air through his teeth

and viewing me

only as the object

he believes i a...

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What else could I do?

Nobody cared anyway.

I tried to speak up,

I tried to tell my story.

The thing is,

Nobody wanted to hear it

Until I wasn't there to tell it.

They'll wonder why I didn't tell anyone,

Why I didn't get help.

I tried to, but they didn't listen.

They were sorry.

They felt bad,

And they realize that they saw the signs.

They saw them,

But the...

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means bringing something with me

warbler, brown, yellow back

in his winter range, would have fit in my hand

if I sat with my palm open

for how many hours or days

so of course I brought a cat 

who kept nearly drowning - I would fish him out

from the ditch next to a field we favorited 

with a heart.  He wanted to pounce

but every move was wet, and no place 

was solid en...

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I see that depraved preacher man

Spewing at me variations of hate

For knowing variations of love,

Male, Female,

Romantic, Lustful.

In the shallowness of skin deep I have learned self-love.

I have found beauty in my body

Where I once could only envision the brokenness

A gaping hole where my heart was.

For so many years I had to reject what I felt

Kept pulling chunks of...

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Expansion

And in the end it is as simple and as complicated as an out breath

all that weighed her down and kept her small clears like mist as her head rises, antlers held aloft, crowning glory, and her wings unfold gracefully, easily as she stands, she stands, she stands and speaks 

And it never before was the right time

Would you ask a prisoner of war why he didn’t just leav...

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The sky sparkles bright 

Lit by the colours of the fireworks 

A beautiful moment. Gentle, and present. 

My music plays while I lay in bed, this writing going correct.. Why is now not the perfect time?! 

So I apologise in advance, I loved every single one of you, maybe a bit too much, and that stopped me at times but unfortunately that was not enough.. believe me it's much harder for me...

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reflection of self
unravel the known
laws of attraction

© juhi gupte

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this is a free verse poem

By: Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh

Hum  to  yun  aam   hai,  pur naaz    hotey
Warna  ap   par   bhi   asar   andaz   hotey

Tere  saaz  se  kaha  mili   hai  meri  awaaz
Phir   tere   asraar    ke    humraaz   hotey

Dikhatey hum manatey  hai  yaaru ko kaise
Kabhi  aa.kar wo hum se  to naraaz  hotey

Is Ishq me daikhey  hain  jo  Qatal gah  bhi
Kaash  us   ...

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I always see all these couples and I ask myself are the really happy ? Are they really in love ?

Will i ever experenice love and happiness like that ? Will I ever be happy like them ?

I know a realtionship and love is not something you can rush , but I always ask myself when will I get to be in love and be happy.

Will I always be this unhappy and not loved ? Like what do I have to change ...

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I wish

I wish if i could swirl the time to past,
and delete all the shoddy reminiscence, 
Omitting all the rendezvous which hurt later.
Ah I wish and can just wish,
Because I neither have Genie nor Aladdin's lamp. 

If only I could turn back time,
immaculate the errs of the past, 
which tormented me over the years. 
Subtracting all the time when I just daydreamed, 
and added the void ...

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Will the demolition man know

what lies within these age-old walls,

five-shilling a yard foundations

evolved from historic battlefields.
 

Will he taste if it is blood

bone, heart or skin

hiding within empty wards, waiting

to succumb to the unknown.

As the echo of his steel toe boots
reverberates through corridors
and daylight cracks the dome,
will he catch his own ref...

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The darkness within comes from my twin pulls apart the good and let's my emotions win, a diagnosed Gemini, going through phases of tears and bright eyes, there's no medication for borderline, with lots of love and self doubt, tempted to break things and shout but some days are for the better while others I can't pull myself together, a case that just won't close, oh how this just comes and goes, I...

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Stand amongst mountains where the wind is in song

Close to the heavens where we all belong.

Stand amongst mountains where the air’s always fine

Close to the streams that taste like wine.

Stand amongst mountains mighty and pure

Solid and firm reaching high into azure.

Stand amongst mountains where day is first to break

Close to the bastions which day is last to f...

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On a far flung new world continent

From the vast expansive land down under

Home to hardy folk sheep and kangaroos

Australia to be precise is it any wonder

In the wilds of the harsh barren outback

Lives and roams a breed of dog called Kelpie

An energetic intelligent hard working sheep dog

Why am I telling you this story so help me

One of its brothers arrived on the shores of...

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I lay in my back garden

I looked up to the sky

I was looking for my loved one's

With teardrops in my eye

I wonder where they've gone to

Or why they had to leave

Do they live on somewhere else

Oh what should I believe

I saw some faces in the moon 

I don't know who they were

I couldn't clearly make them out

They were a little blur

When I die I want to know

Will...

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Sometimes stopping to think about you being gone brings too much pain.

The pain that I pray someday will finally go away.

Today is just like yesterday,

I still miss you more 

and the pain will not go away.

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We, We are the creation of the universe, Being such that our hatred of others consumes us, Our humanity so sunken in the lies we tell our selves humanity itself so distant, so emotional ,But the humanity within us being self-absorbed who is it to say that we are as that we say that the who can control themselves such that they are no longer self-centered, I can not, you can, not no one can!

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Affinity with words has been part of me since trying to decipher little card cut words given by a teacher, but my journey into poetry began in 2002 when something changed the course of my life as surely as a strong tiller on a lightweight boat, or piece of drift wood caught in a strong current.
Before that I was as a sycamore seed spiralling every which way in winds. What happened caused my ship ...

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Today I woke with the all too familiar feelings again. Those never changing Feelings , except perhaps always only in depth. The Familiarity , like the type of stranger you've known all your life, rattles me every time .Each time it happens I feel something stirring deep inside me, a shift at the depths of my core. The slightest of movements almost like a wisp of air it silently flutters ,briefly ,...

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Days are ordinary

This town has no feelings 

The pavement leads to him

But he's no where to be found 

He's caught underground 

The breeze of fall follows me

The air's not so clear anymore

He should have slept more

He should have lived more

I should have thought more

About time to kill

About the love to be sought 

I'm falling apart

I missed that kiss...

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In our sophisticated societies

even today

there are men

who 'breed' sons as a re-issue of themselves

for inheritance of power;

and daughters as bargaining chips

for the extension of power

by amalgamation of resources.

Children whose worth is solely dependent

upon their value in 'the Tribal Game'.

Through ignorance or denial

the value of a woman

lies in the male'...

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