A Rush

A bright spark to a dull mind

searchlights beam for inspiration

as the tunnel is abandoned

its dampness gone, the stench with it

Lights scan the heavens and horizons

body and mind exhilarated

transported, enervated to peaks aloft and wide

Ideas fuel enthusiasm to burst the samovar

milk boils over in fleshy wonder

It is worth it, it has arrived

the track...

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Everything in this world comes, to stay a while - then goes,

Be it a gargantuan dinosaur or a softly fragrant rose.

Maybe one day we'll accept the fact - it's right before our nose,

But being mindful of how we are - just WHEN, do you suppose?!

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A violent attack

innocent victim struggles

sharp steel blade

strikes without thought

cuts deep inside

senseless barbaric killing

another life lost

hundred thousand whys

angel of knives

sends a message

to those who

carry lethal weapons

stop and think

before street crime

leaves more scars

for more families

one day it

might be your

Mum and Dad

...

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We wish you a red and green Christmas

It was Christmas Eve in the workshop

And the elves were feeling jolly

Their little woollen hats

Were decked with mistletoe and holly.

Their faces alight with smiles

Not a sad thought in their heads

For Santa had agreed that Christmas

Should be green and red.

No blousy buxom Barbies

Or action men with guns

Just lots of fair...

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Building a civilization
is a lot like baking a loaf of bread:
All you need are the right ingredients,
a little know-how,
and an oven.

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Take this poem

read it

with open eyes

mull it over in your mind

let it roll off your tongue

let the taste of it

stay with you for a while

may it make you think

and satisfy your appetite

let it linger

until you get hungry again

a poem is a plate of words

served up with relish and spice

wipe your mouth when finished

once satisfied

be glad the po...

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I was sat outside a Manchester caf,

What happened next will make you laugh.

Sitting  there with my dog  next to me,

Having eaten a sandwich ,with a cup of tea.

A man rushed by wearing a posh blue suit,

Dropped 50p in my cup ,"Your dog looks cute."

A lady sat opposite next to her cup,

I dropped a pound in it,she was made up.

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The chorus of the poor
Says the Economist,
As if it is a given,
An expected outcome.
A Greek tragedy
To be rewritten
In modern for the hungry
Minds of the better off,
An entertainment for the few,
While the poor hold out their palms
With a radical point of view,
An imaginary paradise called equality.

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Silent Echo

Regenerate a voice that sales no promise

Agitated by a spoil that is only common

A vivid Spectrum isolated with gray

Drift away to mend the tired

Outcast the routine, Cure the Trial

Lift a torch to a unstable reaction 

Turn a corrupt citizen from tame

Spark ignited through guidance 

Spoken word left to disadvantaged miracle

A friend with a passion to stay 

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Pure and dear 

Love that wins hearts 

Bring millions of souls near 

Yet so fragile even so sweet

Just like the sweet white rose under a feet

Trampled and broken 

Withered dry and being lifeless all around the day

Whatever there was inside

Nothing seems to remain within its wall

Nothing to keep its inside firm and fay

Love if loved 

True to one's heart 

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Engage or Disengage

My writing's unconventional

My head is kinda shot

My readers don't know what to do

To stay or to stay not

I push our social boundaries

Convention I abhor

My lines can be emotional

At times a little raw

I pour the rush and tumble of

My mind out on the page

It's up to you as reader to

Engage or disengage

Don Matthews Augu...

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With remorse, never

Friday,30th November 2018

I never regret

and let

her speak the mind

I find no artificiality

yet we had no meeting ground

the differences were never found

but we couldn't get on well

the doom was likely to swell

"should we part"? I parried the question

she didn't reply but made no mention

I understood the gravity

there w...

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It’s best to sneak up on the reader.

Change the meter,

Change the rhyme,

Change the tone,

Or change the subject.

Try to do something unexpected,

Like confessing a crime

Or secret perversion,

Even in a

Short poem.

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The code is in the message  -- the message is in the code

it's a riddle,

but you live it everyday trying to figure something out

every day you're trying to open up an envelope

every day you're trying to scratch off a secret

There's going to be some pay back,

there's going to be some take off point

...and everyday your wondering when it's really going to hit the fan

you...

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my mind drifts

restless and disconnected

searching for a tethering point

the moment escapes me, nearly

tentative steps

towards a blank space

hope to get there by morning

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BLACKDOWN RIDGE

I thanked Maggie McIver, deceased, today –

she’d left a bench, with an envied view,

to walkers on top of Blackdown ridge

who sometimes stop to train their eyes,

to stretch a bridge to the northern side

of the gentle Downs that sit so pretty

some ten straight, clear, bright miles away.

Her bench was placed just off the track,

its back to the scores of...

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Purely real is gone today

idea mirror past

A rag squeezed bone dry

Nothing more to imagine

Tales told once told 10 times

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Today, my soul feels restless.

But for me that's just today, 

for you there's not another day to feel any other way. 

Besides breathless. 

God I want so badly to help you.

Please come back for just one moment

so I can help you.

Somehow we lost you in the laughter.

We didn’t think you could be hurting.

You loved just hard enough.

If I pulled the sun back...

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My heart is broken, my  head is fryed
my lifes a mess, i hope your satasfied

you through me up you through me down
you brought me back, smashed me on the ground

my heart is aching this pain is changing me now

these scars show i have a past
it keeps coming back around just as fast

love has taught me nothing  but that one thing

never to trust again......... again never to trust aga...

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A record slides from within its sleeve

palm supported to the deck;

the needle descends,

he takes  his place

to where she curls up with that special face.

While reaching down to pull him off

he stays her hand for Rachmaninov,

a musical climax steadily building,

his spirit soaring.

Something about his isolation worries her

as he closes his eyes;

she sulks a...

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Maybe my path 

will see lighter days,

right now I’ve got to make light

in the most creative ways,

so I’ll grab my brush 

with bright colours I’ll paint,

a world that is mine 

And in that world I’ll play.

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 I can't see her so

Where?

  Somewhere? 

She was here once, 

I turned

but

I see her nowhere  

so where is the somewhere she is is?

Words and fotos Tommy Carroll

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God please calm my mind
And heal my heart, I am drained
Please take away pain

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Are we a person who is inward looking out, other people around moving at a pace while we consider it's just another race, perceiving that insane normality could be on the sharp point of a blade, maybe the slanted edged absorbing disciplines to be normal, the other sliding down into the depth of hellfire losing the will to be strong, evidence of any emotional adjustment regressed to a former self o...

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No-one ever accused me of being a skilful rugby player.  Don’t get me wrong, I could catch, pass, even punt with a degree of accuracy.  But my contribution lay in other areas.  I was an unpleasant player.

I was never quick but relatively fit, so I played at loose forward, whose job it was to spoil the play of the opposition and ideally win the ball from any breakdown (preferably legally) and ge...

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He had a disintegrating childhood.

Broken home, residential and foster care.

Joined the army aged fifteen and three quarters.

Married. Three kids. Divorced.

Married again. Three more kids.

Six tours back to back. Left the army, sick to death.

Friends disintegrating in his arms. Just kids.

Home to family. To hope, but more despair.

Rows and harsh words. 

"Get a job, we ne...

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Nice day for a white wedding?

Empty bedding...never bothered.

Never booked it...clever author?

The best man, yet never offered.

Groomed bachelor...ego altered.

Empty nest...eagle's balder.

Being regal in a tuxedo faltered.

I cry not...yet eyes watered.

Still the rock...yeah Gibraltar.

If she arrives, hello altar!

If she doesn't...hella awkward.

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Has the cold winter air pierced through my body
With thoughts choking on you
My body becomes numb 
The memories of you come flooding in
Boards under my feet start to crackle
The pressure of your memories flooding my apartment
Like a child getting hurt for the first time the pain is unbearable
I could lock myself in the bathroom but the pain is still there
There's no running from the dire s...

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BIG HARD MAN WITH A KNIFE . READY TO TAKE A LIFE . DIGNITY AND RESPECT TAKEN OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS . THESE POLITICIANS SUCH FOOLS . NO RESPECT FOR THE LAW . CRIME IS ON THE RISE . THIS IS NO SURPRISE . TEACH THEM YOUNG BEFORE IT ENDS AT THE BARREL OF A GUN !!! 

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Rip off the band-aid, get it over with
I never thought it would come to this
Clear mind, clear eyes
Walking straight, no more lies

Don't rely on me and I won't let you down
You can't count on me, I'll only let you down
Don't reach out for me, I'll only let you drown

These feelings are getting harder to fight myself
Pulling teeth to admit I need some help
It's cutting deep on the webbi...

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Philosophy or poetry?

Plato preferred philosophy,

He would being a philosopher.

Poets, of course, are  liars by profession,

And endeavour to give an air of truth

To airy nothings.

Poets, like children, personify ideas

Through extended metaphor and simile

Imagine in more than one dimension

A golden age, an Arcadia, which poets have invented...

Is bewilder’d by these sp...

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I was at bar last night and saw fabulous kiss
Between lovely strangers, both wearing nice dresses
Drinking their night away, without any stresses
Snuggling up very close on the dance floor with bliss

Seeing them escape scene to the washroom, they go
Telling my wife follow to tell me about tale
As she's curious as well, so she simmers on trail
To find out the details of affair in shadow

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I want to tell a story now, it happened long ago,

So gather round and pay a heed to me.

It tells us of the reason, ‘cause I’m sure you want to know,

Why the fairy sits atop the Christmas tree.

It had just got past midwinter and old Santa Claus was vexed,

The rebellious elves were going out on strike,

And Mrs Claus upset him with the news she gave him next,

That her mum wa...

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They can’t Hear the Music Anymore

Take me back to the start again

Into the light to where words blind me

Right back into the heart again

Into the streets that run ragged

A jagged reality where no one smiles

Drinking in the world they listen silently

Volume lights blinking on maximum

Android ‘Throb Box’ wires dangle

Into the tangle that was once a thought

Eyes wid...

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Albert Edward Burrows   by KJ Walker

With iron grey ‘tache

And eyes of steel

Attractive to women

Sex appeal

A massive frame

Chiselled and bold

A liking for young ‘uns

Although he was old

Police were in fear of

This man so strong

Though they saved him that day

From the baying throng

He’d married a local

A fair maid called Hannah

She was much yo...

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Beautiful but rare

Every colour with a story

Longing for care​​​​​​​

With shield to protect itself​​​​​​​

Plucked by many

But valued by few.

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My mom took me to the second hand store, 

Where I roamed the aisles 

Unsatisfied by the lack of conformity.

The clothes did not resemble the brands I was taught to marvel.

On the first day of class my first year of high school

My classmate told me that Jewish people are

Cheap. 

Stingy. 

Selfish. 

But my Jewish family was not religious. 

I decided that I was not J...

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our mothers

          are windows

through them

          we see the world

and in them

          we see the faintest

reflection

of our selves

they are not easy to

                               break

but neither are they

unbreakable

to break them

          we run the risk

of injury

our knuckles crack

as does their glass

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I think about it all the time...

the sweet temptation,

manipulation! - 

wrapping my thoughts around the mind

I am wondering

How many books I need to read?

How many courses yet take...!?

to hold the leash...

- control the bitch!

She is a mess, she is wild...

I gasp from her ideas saying:

Oh, no you didn't...

- she is destructive!

But God! I...

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It clings to you like a feeling

Personal, intimate 

like a second skin:

of eyes that stare;

perceiving your world. 

Every thought clicked; a motion 

To cleave its coils closer

To know you more

Than any lover can

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SALAMANDER

From dripping dawn to milk churn

to sheep and village fountain.

From orchard and empty

mountain road to gurgling cherry town

I carried a yellow-black fire symbol

through deserted evenings

in hidden streets where men put away

their tools with an apprehensive glance

until at last, we met and drove

the winding road to Olonzac,

and sat next day in the b...

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Winter 

Winter nights draw in
A fire burning brightly
Cold air locked outside

© 2018 Taylor Crowshaw

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Thaw-Irkhet-if

at last the light

the promised light

slipping from Osiris’ grip

crushed by the wheel of centuries

yet

this is not the land of the lord of silence

this is not the fertile valley

this is not the underworld

this is the harsh light

of an alien world

where sacred sarcophagus

is rent asunder

and remains displayed for voyeurs

of the dead

my...

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Allowing a wall
Before their rational thinking stand,
Inured to their heinous deed
Of every brand,
From head to toe
Involved in corruption grand,
Also while fellow citizens
Gasp for air,
Not giving an ounce of care,
Barefacedly they dare
Unjust war to declare!
"Valorous,wiping you out
We shall make the land bare!"

"Chained, cruel and corrupt
Honest - thieves and cut-throats
Us to ...

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Show me the country

Where they glorify the torture.

Where people are hungry

And the well- known murderer,

Can walk freely and be free.

Show me the country

Where everyone is deceived

And the people are cleaved,

The backward there means forward,

Where to say the truth is awkward.

Don’t rotate the globe

With a hope to find this country.

You won't find it on the pl...

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i can’t think of any other words

i’m sorry

you’re the puzzle piece 

that didn’t fit

and i bent your corners

and snipped off where you stuck out

and although the puzzle started looking pretty 

to me 

you suffered and 

it was so obvious but

i was so stubborn ‘cause

i wanted it to look perfect but

you didn't belong 

and i'm not sure if this means much

but

...

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How did we get to where we are now

With iPads and mobiles and all things technological?

Messaging, emails, air drops and more

Things go out of date once they leave

the factory floor.

To some of us it's seems only a short life ago,

when spinning tops reigned, and rocking horses

were all the go.

The cursory Christmas stocking filled

with surprises, like oranges, nuts and d...

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XXX

The exes come one by one
Bearing memories wrapped in the present

After a few drinks they insist on
Chronologies you can’t remember

Their eyes start to twitch as you 
Attempt to stoke dying embers

To the night they proclaim
Their judgements you were

An asshole and 
They’ll never forgive it

And then you make out 
With razor blades between your teeth

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only so high roll the sun up the sky 
that a guild of mists should profit thereby
that artists among us may train their eye
on those untouched sheaves of gold they so prize

silence between thoughts in the ideal world...
enter the whistle or pip of one bird
frame and magnify the lyrical word
for her plain song purport may yet be learned

bright is the morning, the shadow has passed
...

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Rock on with lock-ons

fighting heart-black frack backers. 

The glue is super. 

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I think in yellow
the heart's a coward
black at the core
open the door
open the door
can't wait no more
gonna lay down there
on the floor
be good now
good mud
show the love
soon my love
I come above light like air
weather's heavy over there
but here
I feel back in my space
I made some mistakes
be ok
my pain smells like rain
I watch it trickle away
down the drain
reminds me
of...

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Lets talk and talk some more on your living room floor,

delibarating til' the clock hits four

Sweet tobacco scent,

your soul is up for rent

Our birthdays they fall in the same week,

I can feel the signs in the way you speak

I told you I'm crazy,

you told me you liked it

I knew you weren't lying. 

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Another fourteen boys,
another fourteen pints
set down on another wooden table
on another busy day.

Another brood of hens,
another fairy bride,
drinking halfs and bottles
of I can’t decide,
and I’d better take it easy,
we’ll have cocktails later,
and no, I’ll get these.

There’ll be hundreds today
just like them.
Hop-licked strollers
on a big day out
that might be once in a lifet...

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Saddleworth Moor

This is the place where time has died
and earth has eaten its past.
Once these lands were forests.
You find their bones -
the trees’ bones,
shrinking into icy brown fingers
with dust and decay of heather 
interred in the peaty black.
There’s grass – shivering grass -
and strange green
stunted cowering vegetable entities
and the silent white trumpets
of the lichen,
...

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Essence

Torn from the trappings
and traps of modern life
and my urban routine,
Eschewing the shower
and the compulsion to be
clockwise and clean.

I sit submerged midst
a joyous explosion of leaves
and insects
and sunshine
and fabulous, filigreed filth
and flowers,
And register silent sounds,
unplug my phone
and recharge my simpler powers.

Earthy smells,
vibrant in their rich...

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Preamble: my contribution to this week's Rhymers' theme "fire".

Wouldn’t it be easier to recognise a liar

If caught telling porkies, their pants really caught fire?

As a warped form of justice, it would be rather fun

To see a guilty con man get singed around the bum.

The value of honesty would rapidly be learned

If every untruth told led to buttocks getting burned.

P...

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The wave on the stairs

was no final farewell,

but a resounding adieu

repeating we will meet again.

Glimpsing your fading eyes

a distance away now

still pronouncing their beautiful hue

and glistening under a single tear

mirroring the evening dew.

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To wake lit by that lunar light

Toiling from the depth of dreams

Misty minded from the night

So the distant land below the window seems

Illusory

To see beyond the shaded hedge

Hear again the whisper soft

As bedewed we walked, that ghostly pledge

Those lovely echoes of a distant past yet waft

Silently

To sense again her presence there

Knowing how we walked at ease

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People with a beard

Are people without a beard

who have grown a beard

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You and me

-kishore karunik

Dazzling fog at dawn

Thou came with a sweet variety

Abnormal in luxuries dream

Where death our daily companion

Frets vivacity in lifeless there

Yet there the struggle for survival

It is you and me!

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The day Elvis died

I cried.

I woke up early for the forecast.

Rain or no rain - time - density -

Made a huge difference

In the activity of our Craft Shop

Especially over the lunch hour.

My mind was already clicking

With plans to cope.

The twins were still fast asleep.

My husband droned quietly beside me.

A sonorous voice intoned:

'We interrupt this pro...

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https://youtu.be/kx6C248MQeQ

On being young and foolish at the second muddiest Glastonbury Festival in history. 

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There might be good days and there might be bad

Days when you are happy and days when you are sad

But in the end, it's what you are most hopeful for

And that's what makes it all worth the wait

There will be days when the sun will shine and ones when the clouds will gather

The way back is not easy, neither is the picture always rosy

But if you wait for the one you love

Hol...

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COLD BEGINNING
(General Ali ft. Onuwa Greg)

See what thou hath done
See what pain thou hath caused
Uninvited with thy masked scary face 
Thou listen not to the plea of we humans
Thou silent beautiful bodies forever
Only a thief comes silently
And carry that which is not his
know something this day
Gone are the days I will fear thee
For thou is a new beginning
©ONUWA GREG

Thy loved...

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Redemption

What is the price, and what are the costs,

of the ransom I'll someday crave?

If I don't pay the piper, I'll surely be lost

and I'll stay an imperfect slave.

'A slave to what?' I heard you laugh,

'you're not in cold chains, I can see!',

yet that at which you choose to scoff

is hardened steel to me.

I have drifted across the face of the deep,

like a...

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the cutting of blood force the fawn from the rock to red below 

something of enormity amongst the will-o whispers of the forest

now comes frottage come rub against the vastness  feel alive

through waxen shame come write the past with blade and blow

watch the velvet shed through crimson feel the carnage drop rivulets

staining matted fur punch through afresh a green a blank a mass

...

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Getting acquainted with the moon 
behind glass
we exchange so many glances
and on my back
a thousand heart-attacks roll past
My fingers beside, cross and uncross
as you sleep, so black
back in the real world
paid up entirely
on your subscription
to actual reality

O would you bring me a souvenir
from the envious depths of endless peace
perhaps a child or a patient nurse
or some cont...

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The first time, we were strangers 
I tried all i could for attention 
But it looks like an intrusion 
But beliefs keeps me coming on
For I have never felt this way for anyone 

Our first date was like a jackpot 
Everyone could see the emotion
Facing you wasn't an easy move
My saliva almost left me 
I was speechless for I ran out of my rehears words 

The first peck left me in a state...

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"i had a dream that there was a rifle too big for me "

it's important to ascribe meaning to things
there's a whole lot of "what now" in the human condition
I'm alive, what now?
My basic needs are met, what now
I have a fulfilling career and family and a home,
what now?
i hurt myself with heroin to see what it was like
i dropped acid and am now afraid of the color orange 
through DMT i m...

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I do not know this was going to happen but I know it would happen

I'm just a constant fuck up

It never gets easier

I'm not trying to play the victim

But it feels like it

Today, it's hard to talk to you when it felt so easy yesterday

It's hard to swallow, afraid you'll hear me from across the room

It's hard to look at you because you won't look at me when we couldn't keep ...

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The taste of red wine on our lips and any trace of hesitancy gone away from me.
It's like with you I can finally breathe. My dark eyes pulling you in, yours greeting me like the ocean.
I've been frozen on the sea floor and now I'm swimming to the surface. The fresh air on my face is alarming and I'm diving back under. But I'll come back up for your lightning because I am the thunder. 
Sigh and ...

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SLEEP

Sleep has become a luxury item in Harrods 

It is something that I see and wish to own for myself yet can not afford 

Instead I am stuck with my budget supermarket smart price, reduced, on offer, buy one get one free, bargain bucket naps at a time I need to repair both my mind and body. 

I have become a Theresa May and Donald Trump follower in a bid to count such sheep o...

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I am nothing but nothing
An empty vase if you will
Fill me with flowers
Become emptier still

I am no one but no one
My soul she was freed
Let her flea too far
Left my person in need

I have no way but no way
To be me again
Im shattered and squashed
Crippled with pain

I am nobody but nobody
Now I have so much flesh
In the wrong damn body
My fear still too fresh

I am nowh...

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What is an appropriate poem when standing on a mountain top?

I don't want one that will lead me into canyons of the city
Where Leviathan dwells.

Or an epic that will remind me of lost loves or the girl with tears in her eyes -
I'm so sorry Jenny.
Honestly, I didn't know you cared that much.

I do not wish a didactic poem that teaches me how to be a man.

(although one that told me how...

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I’m sitting in between everything

I haven’t got a defence

Clarity of argument; I sit on the fence

Like a remainer without passion

I watch the world pass by

Happy in the moment that I didn’t even try

To oppose the inevitability of a right-wing slant

I get really tired sometimes of benevolent rant

Where everybody else sits and where I fit

Why should I care for folks’ ups a...

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I thought in my mind and thus spake I to I,

'The leviathan his heartbeat is the thunder that resonates in my soul's tempest.

He calls to me as Goliath called to his brother David yet he knows not my Christian name.

I must conquer the behemoth as Cain did Able as natural as we both must breath God's air, until the sinking of my floating bark or I sink the earth.

This, I proclaim, is by ...

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ACADEMIC TESTS

Oh these tests,

Superflous academic tests.

No time to prepare 

For entrance tests.

Difficult to store

Vast concepts in mind,

Oh how to retain so much

Till marks given and paper signed.

Bewaring that,

The examiner is not blind,

And not our bydweller

That gives marks so kind.

All worried,

Smile crease no face.

Will we get thr...

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Growing up i never saw

The beauty as it hurts

But i realized you had to even and put us first

Crying daily for sure

No we never understood it

You were a mom 

the Queen before a queen could be

You tried so hard to raise us n i remember that

Taught us manners in the most rememberable ways

But that was you

A person who truly gave a damn

You couldn’t help it 

G...

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He was warned when he first got it

He was warned, it must be said

That a Tribble-Gremlin cross-breed

Ought not be worn upon your head

----

He was wary of the bald-patch

Disliked the typical toupee

Wanted something extra special

To keep the looming grey at bay

He used his wealth and influence

Sent a message from his tower

Requesting some geneticists

To ...

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Finding love by flipping a coin

Love is like flipping a coin

You flick it in the air

And hope the outcome is fair

You like heads so you call heads

But fate has other plans

It’s been decided that heads has other fans

Still I have a chance

Surely it can’t happen every time

That it lands on the wrong side of the dime

Maybe I am the one who should chan...

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Gotta come to the party

with a present

Do not crash it

Look within

to see what you've 

got to give

Do not look outward

to see what 

you can get

There will never 

be enough

outside

To fill 

your need

inside

You...

Gotta bring it. 

By Lynn Hahn

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The hounds of Brighton tremble when Marianne walks her dogs,

they call a general meeting and discuss how

to nobble their rivals, who are so sleek and nimble.

For she is the mistress of the doggie world,

a status which was shattered on the day she met Inspector Cuffem,

the chief cop with a reputation for chasing dog owners,

Concern for her charges, Barkalot, Situp and Unbuckl...

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One life to live disbursed into chapters of pain and "agony" mediocrity in an advid mindset,

Pain leaks a shallow pool of vulgar passion and wisdom, Life has ended before 

Beginning, Taking more losses than winning, Said route guides him

to failure for the remainder of his non - self confessed life. in the end all that remains once again is 

his riddled mind and a overseeing vibrant au...

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powdered, light-tinted dust strokes the crevices of her porcelain face.

red liquid plasters the outside of her perfectly shaped lips.

black goo strikes the thick corners of her luscious eyelashes.

the girl staring back at her she does not recognize.

Perfect. Beautiful. Good. the voices in her head say.

A faint smile warms her face;

painted, covered, and disguised in the lies...

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There are so many things I wish to say to you

But speaking out loud my words do not  hold much use

Where to begin I do not know

So much has happened it’s hard to let go

I cannot start at the beginning

Somehow the memories have faded,

Somewhere in the middle our love became jaded!

But sitting here alone trying to remember the past

How it all had ended,

I swear a spell upo...

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Love is wicked

It is not possible that

there is hope

after the break-up

I believe that

We are just naive and intolerant.

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  JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES LET YOUR MIND BE FREE NOW IMAGINE YOU.NOW IMAGINE ME .CAN YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? ME AND YOU WALKING TOGETHER IN THIS THING WE CALL LIFE I AM YOUR HUSBAND AND YOUR MY WIFE. I COME HOME TO YOU AND YOU TO ME WERE THERE IS NO FUSS THERE IS NO FIGHT WE HAVE OUR DINNER BY THE CANDLELIGHT NOW JUST IMAGINE US DANCING BY THE LITTLE LIGHT THAT IS LEFT BY THE DAY YOU LOOK IN MY EYES AND A...

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Find me a denim jacket,

That's strong enough to carry my heart,

And long enough to button me up,

From my nose,

Down to my index toes,

To hide away my protruding bones, 

Starved I am of a lovers dream

I lost myself to a nasty scheme

And though my love fell out of me,

My heart still craves some more it seems...

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black lace tree branches

Nature's Secret lingerie

on a rosy sky?

we are love seeking

often loving-in-a mist

so soon dissolving

hot stlll breathless night

huge tangerine harvest moon

fireflies twinkling bright

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Carcinogenics in every single thing we buy
From our food, clothes, to even our hair dye
Although Europe does indeed do more to try to protect us
America really doesn't seem to give a flying fudge
They have many slimy loop holes which risk our health and safety
Like the fragrance loop hole that has, over these years, affected us far too greatly
They need not disclose chemicals that they use t...

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Cheshire housewife buys her Hereafter Insurance,

Works hard for nativity with port and gin

Our truth is, success means excess.

Then lies were common in family life

Waiting, hiding, broken, when when true

As your eyes sparkle through Mona Lisa smiles

And lies of untruth spoken words

Housewife with her gin

And tonic gives Santa a good

Time!

Heavy Mon...

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I cannot, I cannot do this or do that,

climb a set of stairs, I used to be able,

unbelievable ability, parallel bars,

fifteen marathons a year, 

Times crossword in under one hour,

now I just cannot, my mind talks to itself, 

abstract conversations between three and five people, 

all had names, all become forgotten, either today or tomorrow, 

I still cannot do what I on...

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An adventure beckoned, be safely home soon.

At the Christmas table, save me some room.

Bit young to understand what it’s even all for.

But me and my mates we’re off to fight a war!

The King’s rallying calls, we heard them loud.

Fight for your Country, stand tall, stand proud.

The reasons to fight, we were never even sure.

But it didn’t stop us signing up and going to war.

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the unfortunate reality is

the clock will keep ticking

the world will keep spinning 

the sun will keep shining

after I’m gone.

plants will still grow

birds will still sing

fish will still swim 

after I’m gone.

babies will be born

grass will be green

nothing will be different

after I’m gone.

Is this what you meant

when you told me

to get s...

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Devoid of colour, blind ink licking round vision

 to tar the eyes and misguide the traveller.

Writing its lies and sprouting its black horns.

Picking the words, it would not let you see

and took you to a fiery street of malicious, misconstrued facts.

Facts, blatant and treacherous of non-existent weapons of destruction.

Of threats to your home and a hundred reasons to make y...

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Their faces reflect purity,

But, the heart screams an objection

The way they walk is gracefull,

But, the words seem to say otherwise.

Venom is like the only language they know,

But they know not that it might cost them.

Its rare to see,

A face appearing guilty,

Yet, overconfidence is their fort.

Being humiliated is an abomination to them,

But, humiliating others ...

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Thinking about that summer heat

Brings me back

To when

You were present in my world,

Not yet dragged to another

For your premature slumber.

I crave your fire

Your fury.

I want to see orange

So I wake up early to

Catch the day crawl in and

I hold hands with the auburn air.

Pretend you're there. 

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Is it fit
to get hit?
For tiny bits
he beats or smits.

When he vomits
all the shit,
she's scared
out of wits.

How oblong,
how unfit
for any woman
to get hit!

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The Sea in its Knowledge and Truth

Watching the sea in its gushing entirety 

And beauty, for amongst the waves, 

There is knowledge and truth. 

Skimming stones, as we used to, 

Throwing, abandoning them to blue, 

In all its eternity, remembering, 

Lives forgotten and dreams to come. 

Which never end, us we always exist, 

Like the hued water to the edg...

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The war to end all wars ended exactly one hundred years ago

That war failed in its objective of making war and bloodletting obsolete

Just like the bow and arrow is now outdated war was meant to be

The renderings of battle and conflict consigned to the history books

When children ask their parents: WHAT WAS WAR?

The answer should have started thus: Well child...

But that scen...

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This ravaged night

That bleeds us dry

Of all that we love and adore

That tramples the flower

And blisters the soil

That cracks the earth

that withers the harvest of the mind

that snaps the will

and smothers all hope

this dark and choking blanket

with tendrils reaching out

strangling every last vestige

of who and what we were

turning us one against anothe...

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It isn't just the war dead that I remember on Remembrance Sunday. I often think about the instigators of war: the self-aggrandising politicians who drag nations into conflict, the incompetent commanders safe behind the front line while the troops go to their deaths. Can they live lives untroubled by the carnage they caused? Or do the ghosts of the dead come back to haunt them for their crimes?

...

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Vacuum existence like a yellow tulip

On an immense tar, a shallow caterpillar

Looking for its butterfly.

Sneaky dance to advance like a snail

Intense sniffing, the dare of a snake.

Do all, son, to never be a snack

When earthquakes hack your fate

Wake up you are in class!

You did not sleep yesterday?

I will inform your parent

This is your las...

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Eyes on me, everybody.

Pay attention.

I am going to have a breakdown right in front of you.

So you might want to take notes,

because this will be on the test.

Pencils up!

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Stripped

of chances; 

yet swimming

with choices!

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Poetry slam
Bang on a can

Gesture and prattle
Crank the rattle

If it's funny
I spit the dummy

If the poetry slams
Throw the toys out the pram

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Those bells rang and rang and rang
In absence of all now gone from us
All in this earth their life lives long
As those bells clatter the silent songs

Youth slaughtered cattle in this earth 
For red bright poppies that sprout to life
Breaking through braved blooded soil
Enriched by a youth of lost loved souls 

Time fated a 100 years ago by chance 
Angelic eyes and soft youthful faces
...

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Feelings forgotten,
omega of my soul,
my perfect completion

Not knowing of our existence,
just forgotten feelings,
just one wish,
a simple pray...
roses everywhere when you try to forget me

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mothers aren't always kind--

they're sometimes passive-aggressive oppressors

thrusting tiny pin-pricks right into the quick

with precision and calculated malign...

trust me, mother knows

just the spot to best get to you

to fold you down

just like a carry-along

bagged tent...

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I just want to fly,

high and high in the sky.

With the wings of my dreams,

stepping on the cloud of hope.

tasting the breeze of freedom,

floating in the lung, caressing my soul.

I just want to fly,

high and high in the sky.

Breaking all the stereotypes,

Or taboos limiting me,

Relishing my eyes with gorgeous views,

free from all the frame of reference...

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Laughter and smiles 

A life time memory 

Just a moment, years ago

I can remember forever 

Not caught on camera

Just a click of emotion

Re-lived

Laughter and smiles 

Came to life again.

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Hiding in the dark

Sun beams through a rough parchment

Glimpse of a rainbow

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Rain Rain Please Go Away,

Almost No Agri-land here anyway!

And planned water resources everywhere!!

Wish for 1 hour of weather like Dubai!

Or if not, parle-G biscuits with cup of hot (tea)Chai!!

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I had a belief in myself,

I thought I knew where I stood

But spend enough time talking to one who believes otherwise…

The words twist and drive into my heart until doubt creeps,

And the snakes who slept awaken and open lidless eyes

“Who am I?” I must scream into the darkness

The silence answers back with a laugh.

“You are the sum of your failures, dear child.  Own up to it.”

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"I promise I will never leave you."

"You are the only one I care about."

"I promise I will always love you."

"Losing you would be devastating."

"I promise I will love you forever."

You made many promises to me

Yet you broke all of them.

You promised me the world

Yet you made it collapse on me.

You never understood - 

You were my world the entire time,

But...

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Baffled by the spurious light,

I started embracing pure darkness.

I hear the whispers,

I hear the clappings.

I feel the pulse of this madding crowd.

I feel the mystery scripted within,

All colours are roaming naked

with lebels.

I am sinking in the unfathomable darkness,

There is no lie,no hoax no adulterated joy..

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??‍♀️ WHEN THE TRUTH HURTS ??‍♀️

My heart hurts and rage runs through my veins and even though I don't know her I can still feel her pain.
This right here hurts and it's not because of her race. It's the fact it's another human being that because of crooked cops they have deformed another face.
Everyone has something say but in reality the real matters of this country they try to ignore.
Whe...

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The pointless emptiness of everything.

I’m stood here in this field trying to feel,

Trying to remember what it felt like to feel.

Trying to feel my way around this field and follow my feet

Follow my feet through the field to feel again

I feel the wind blow and I follow

I feel the dog pull and I follow

Stumble and follow

Follow my feet

I look to the skies for direction

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A little poem but late for Halloween" Anyways how I feel sometimes when the darkness draws in!

Night

The night that little slice of fear

darkness claws out as paranoia draws near

shivers like needles under my skin

images of ancient an evil resides within

my heart is pounding as I strain to see

shadows cascade ebbing and flowing then cease to be

I ask myself is someone ...

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Life is not always what we want

Life is not a game that can be changed

Life is god's mortgage that we must live

Life is a lesson that we learn all day

Life is a lifelong thread unbroken by any pain

Life is the medicine that heals all pain 

Life is the CPR to save a life

Life is a chance that can only be given once

Life is tearing that we must bear with a smile

Life is a ...

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all these cold faces 

no depth or kindness 

just soulless faces 

that don’t understand me

these are the faces 

that scare me 

-is anyone like me here?

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A collection of voices following the River Mersey from source to mouth.

Check out The Quality of Mersey on Facebook.

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How do you know if time is being wasted?

Drifting so far away from the honesty that the honesty becomes a lie,

How do you know if it's what's meant to be, if im with you and he's not with me?

They say time you enjoy wasting, isn't wasted time,

But does that apply when you've got your enjoyment, and I've lost mine?

How do you know what's meant to be?

I'm with you, and he's no...

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You Belong…
By my side, forever my love
In my arms, safe and secure
Towering over my kneeling form
At times kneeling for me

I want you…
In my bed, naked and breathless
In my life, a permanent fixture
As my most passionate lover
As my very best friend

You are… 
My friend, my lover, my partner in crime
The one who makes my soul weep
The one who provokes my passions
The ONE who I lo...

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My church she stands on grassy mound

Raised high above the land around

Keeps vigil over town and people

In God’s own sun her spire topped steeple

Guides me home, seen from afar

More constant than the morning star

Gravestones lean against the sky

Friends and enemies in peace now lie

Bells call across the neighbouring hills

And the air with anticipation fills

As townsfo...

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{Til Morning Light}

I've doubted my

happiness along

awaiting for my newer

sins til morning light

and as I rewrite all

of my stories and

compete with my

never-ending ends

that seems to never

be ending for me daily 

and I don't have time

for no imposters

because I will only

fade away at the

rumbling watery

morning light while

rewriting all my new

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he's one sandwich short of a picnic

he's two cards shy of a deck
he’s lost in the woods
he’ll never come good

he’s burnt out, a gibbering wreck

he's mostly away with the fairies

his ship is on the rocks
his nerves are shot
the man is not

the sharpest tool in the box

they say that he's not the full shilling

and he's got no gas in the tank
he's no flipping use
he's got a s...

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The clouds parted for a moment

The prevealing winds of change were felt

The devil, as if he stopped paying attention for just a moment, began to ride his demons on the oncomming winds

She began to distroy the hearts of the ones she held the closest

Fear and anger hanging heavily in her mind

She said she was no longer going to play nice

The universe watching what was about to unfo...

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I am, you are not

Something thatś called compassion

Learn to love again

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I get up at 6.00am and I begin to clean the house,

People think I'm crazy but they don't know what it's all about,

They didn't see the place that I used to call home,

Where I didn't invite people over too embarrassed to be a host,

Just a normal semi or atleast that's what you might think,

But to me it is a palace the new home in which I live,

I would never take this house for gra...

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i'm like a timebomb going off

in and out of anger like a stinging of hatred

everyone around me is just witnesses

like a timebomb

slow and steady fast or heavy

my landmine circulates swimming my mind

how far off the deep end do you want to allow me

crime is such childsplay a place very much more serious

like a timebomb

not much in me is a ma or pa

so much like a shatte...

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