I shared a post on social media
From someone unknown to me
Her brother had gone missing
She shared her desperate plea

She posted a lovely photograph
A young man with a smiling face
Details of him and his missing car
So his movements could be traced

I hoped and wished for good news
Today an update broke my wait
“Thank you so much for all your support,
devastating, we were too late”

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Winter cuddles, I love them so!
Hugs and kisses in the deep snow.
In your hat and scarf, mittens too.
So close together, just me and you!
Body to body, and face to face.
A winter cuddle, a warm embrace.
Heart to heart, and hands to hold.
Tight together, keeping out the cold.
Snow flakes I see before you sway.
Gently they float on this winters day.
Winter cuddles, standing toe to toe.
Sq...

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Hello.
This is me talking to me.
Are you in?
Are you listening?
Are you OK down there?
Because we’ve been getting some 
            strange signals
And it’s very worrying.

OK?
You’re not lying?

Good,
That’s alright then.
Just checking.

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The wind it tackles

The leaves and the litter

The leaves and the litter

It leaves in the past.

The sun it is drying

The paint and the puddles

The paint and the puddles

Not tears from the past.

I saw the bend coming

The bend was approaching

The bend in the road

That soon would be passed.

I saw her look darken

She hoped I was joking

But we w...

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Drawn closer
hands light on each other
hips, waist, back of the neck, hair.

The epitome. Iconic 
eternal centre of the world.

But we are frightened.
Here to express ourselves, boy and girl
are we to play a role, representing our kind?

Must the gale flourish it's cape
virile as a matador
while sweet leaves of the tree
sigh a chorus in unison?
Perhaps so.

And as we take ...

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As I stand in the kitchen
Christmas music playing in the background
String lights on the tree glistening in the corner
I can't help but feel helpless
During the one time of year where I can feel fully happy
When it is acceptable to blare the catchiest of songs
Where people exchange smiles and small gifts coated in glitter
I can't help but feel helpless
This year has been awful to say the l...

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I have the measure of my man.

He squats, half-comic, underground,

Cross-legged in protective gown,

With all his hatches battened down.

Inside his bunker with a phone,

The disinfectant sloshing round,

He must believe he is alone.

He thinks he is immune;

He thinks I’ll go away.

The truth will dawn quite soon;

He will not last the day.

He cannot see me; no o...

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 I
at the foot of my altar
a candle burns at both ends

running out of gas, a dying star
shines through the skylight
magnified
sparking a flame.
the veil catches ablaze
burning in half
top to bottom
revealing a million
scattered puzzle pieces
lying below a gold spray-painted calf.

in the pile of ash, that was my altar
lies a pool of melted wax.

    II
standing behind a pulpit
...

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Plants are friends

as close as kin

providing us with

beauty and grace

in summer

they enjoy the sun

giving off an aura

of happiness

in late Fall

when the weatherman

predicts a hard freeze

it is only right

that we come to their defense

against the coming coldness

so all are gathered

in a corner

and blanketed with old towels

and o...

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Destiny is not where life or time is taking you to,

Destiny is the place where you want to see yourself.

Destiny is not where others push you to be,

Destiny is where your heart feels satisfaction.

Not everyone born with a silver spoon,

Not everyone inherits fame,

Millions of people with their hard efforts and sturdy will power earn it.

Everyone born with a hidden talent and it...

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we all have bits a tad imperfect,

(dark specs hide my killer squint)

other embarassments of mine

so many they're not fit to print

Beverley liked to hum during sex,,

she kept goats and preferred oral,

tight bandages on both big toes,

her orgasms were strictly choral

middle-aged smoke screens hide

natural signs of wear and tear,

I left Sue's bewigged head alon...

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Can you see what you are not looking at?

Can you hear what you are not listing to?

Can you feel what you have not touched?

Can you smell and taste your visions?

Can you think with your mind, and decide with your gut? 

Can you understand something immediately,

Without the need for conscious reasoning?

Have you thought to yourself,  YES  already?

You have  "IT".  Your (sixth)...

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Bing arrived at Maternity with his wife Jane ,

Her last delivery was fearful ,a pain.

The doctor said to Bing,

"Relief to your wife I can bring."

"We have a machine ,as you are the dad, will transfer the pain to you."

"Great I will do anything to  help my wife get through."

20 percent of the pain at first was transferred to Bing,

"That was great ,I didn't feel a thing !"

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Blue plaque sits upon wall

Arthur Stanley Jefferson it proclaims

Born 16th June 1890

Telling of where his journey started

A walking manifestation of talent

Known to the world as Stan Laurel

Comedy legend

Here his story began

His family soon moving away

As he would later relocate to another continent

A partnership with Ollie only half the story

Movie director, scree...

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Stillness that stirs

Silence that purrs

Doubt that enlightens

Shadow that brightens

Here and now 

Live Love Bow

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[ ] Murder is to death; killing is for a thrill.

[ ] Souls corrupted broken with no will .

[ ] Life is revelant, so death let life live.

[ ] Death we must all face that's the deal.

[ ] Written in stone, stamped, & sealed.

[ ] Heart corroded body is ill.

[ ] Slowing heart beat the flesh is chill.

[ ] Heart stops to a sudden still.

[ ] Welcome to the Grim Reap...

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LOVE POEM

I love the cool simplicity of you

that you're not complicated,

that I know how to please you

and the shape of happiness today

will be the same in a year.

I love the way you wake and stretch

towards the promise of morning,

that neither unkindness nor injustice

have tainted or diminished you.

You are spring dawn perfume

the suggestion of distant c...

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Stranded on this figmentation of reality 

Deciding between light and dark

Overshadowed by our failures 

Head kept afloat by all that is good

In the arms of the great abyss 

You have two options 

To give oneself up

or to tread the seamless glass

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After the cremation service the fresh air.

"I never forget a mask,"

I said to someone i'd never met,

an attempt at grim humour.

The embarrassing marquee behind us

pallbearers upright in their black masks,

so long in the waiting. 

Truth is I had felt disconnected

but grief can spread like ripples

from a stone cast into water

at the downcast head of one

I k...

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My heart loved like a racecar

But my anxieties never let me switch lanes

I saw you from afar, I admit

Though I believed your curious eyes

Were a figment of my imagination

Then we collided,

And you left me cold, frozen in the snow

My heart still loves like a racecar

But the collisions don't hurt as bad as they

Used to

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let your index finger 

gently lift towards her

in one smooth motion

keep your eyes

fixed on hers

let your jitters simmer

open your hand

thumb pointing at your chin

fingers pointing up

roll your fingers across

the front of your face 

in clockwise fashion

like a carousel 

lightly turning

shadows to glimmers

end with your fing...

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I was out walking today

Trying to clear my head

After a morning of too much study, Twitter

And coffee.

On the way to town, listening to jazz

I tried to slow down my mind

Counting flat, fallen autumn leaves

Making words from number plates

Avoiding kids on their bikes.

I came out of Boots with

My blue sweets for the weekend

And stopped for a double espresso.

Havin...

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Helping the poor

Is on my list for sure

They are still one of us

Without money and shelter thus

My duty is to look after them

Being a beautiful gem

With a generous heart and soul

That has always been my goal

Giving some of my earning

Without betrayal or turning

Hoping to put a smile on their face

Showing them my love and grace

Probably not their fault

That th...

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The Land is Fallow

The land is fallow, the virus has struck

the grass weeps and the fields sleep

Trees stand bare as onlookers stare

the land is fallow for a while, a year

The land is pock marked with tangled weeds

no longer is it time to sow the seeds

People retreat to the warmth of their hearth

nothing is achieved on inertia's path

Clouds and rain no lon...

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Past pain learned
Burned within our hearts
Anything related
We set flames 
Agitated
Our inner demons
Slowly seeming
That anything that provokes
The insecurity 
Fixated on the remote 
Event that occurred
Reliving the feeling
The heart's been concealing
We push away
The one we think is causing the pain
When it's our own projection
A reflection 
That we need to heal
Slowly start to ...

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After checking the oil for the chain
and a quick pull on the starter rope
my father’s chainsaw cuts through the branches
Stainless steel teeth offer no quarter

The quickly turning blade suggests danger in unsure hands
regardless, his grip is firm and confident
Swift and experienced strokes 
make short work of the green and sap-filled wood

Fine powder sawdust drifts across my arms
We s...

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dream about turning it off

think about getting up

fantasies become elaborate

as the mirror moves away

sweat you know nothing about

dreaming in the supermarket

words in advertisements

start to call your name

adventure adventure

waiting for you

giving up security

is all you have to do

adventure adventure

embracing your fears

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As I sit back and look at life in front of me.

I see mostly shades of gray of what could be.

Out of focus paths to take each with their own rewards and of course pain.

What’s the cost going to be it’s a gamble in all honesty,We play the odds at best we guess.

The reason is because we don’t know all the facts about anything in life or death.

Can you be sure any of this is reality, I ...

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On a visit to the Morrison’s I took a bloke to task -

The dozy twat had no idea of how to wear his mask;

He wore it underneath his nose; I asked him in the shop

If he wore his underpants with his prick flopped out the top.

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The Grimstone Vampire

Granny’s Slugshaw was sat watchin’ t’telly

When something rattled her windowpane

She thought.. What the chuff is all that noise

It wasn’t forecasted to rain

So she got up and pulled her curtains back

And saw Vlad… just hanging there

Upside-down.. by his feet… like a bat

With his cloak, and his raven-black hair

“You soft...

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What does it take to be able to regard yourself as a good person, hmm?
What does it take? 
Is it that you always give to charity? 
Or have the clarity to never make a mistake? 
What does it take? 
Maybe you tithe, give money to God and think it odd that others don’t,
Or won’t, is that their mistake?
To want to have and eat every single slice of the cake?
And if all of their professed notio...

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I can hardly speak but I try:
my brain falls silent, still
it is the dying of the day
when a ferment of tenses
leads me up many cold-cut cul de sacs..

I linger on a moonlight-figure
palely mirroring the sparkling frost,
she’s gone but never lost.

Suspicious of the silences within
outside is wild, the colour of blood
soaks into the sky.
A barge meanders down the river
on a ...

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When I read your poems,

I fall in love with you. 

Then I read his poems, 

and fall in love with him too.

I admit it,

I can’t quit it.

I’m a PoHo, 

like Phoebe Snow! 

https://youtu.be/lihbaHfnDhk

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Evicted from his house

    In a dark and cold night

    He walked down the deserted alley

    A bright light slowly showed the way

    The path of hope that was crossed by shadows

    Is this really the right path?

    The wind whispered

    The dead leaves were creaking

    An owl hooted

    What was the hidden message?

    His stomach was growling

    His body wa...

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I’m late, I’m late

For a very important date

I don’t mind you see

If it’s a blind date or three

‘Cos I prefer not to know

What she looks like and so

I just turn up, give her a sultry look

and then hope for the best

(you can imagine the rest)

Now in my mind’s eye

She’s a looker, that’s why

I always prefer, to buy 

flowers for her 

But I’ve had too many sh...

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Do you know that the biggest star that belongs to the night dares every day to keep you warm?

And we love the sun’s warm, but what would the sky look like without the moon’s bright?

Don’t you know that you must need to go dark before you can truly shine?

Otherwise, how would we be able to see the best stars if it wouldn’t be for the nightfall?

Don’t you realize?

You are the biggest ...

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he says as it relates 
to a date 
of another first 
we’ve had. 

It reminds me of things 
I shouldn’t hold onto. 

It shouldn’t matter 
when I first noticed 
the way light hits his beard, 
or how his colors blend 
as in a Monet, 
only that I see them. 

It shouldn’t matter 
when those butterflies first flew 
from our insides; 
only that they fly every time. 

It shouldn’t matte...

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Magellan Straight Chile.

I was sailing on the water

Looking down I could see my face

I imagined me down in a cool dark place.

My boots chafed my blistered feet.

It was just like yesterday 

A fathomless bottomless canned repeat.

Staring in that cool dark place.

I stumbled to my cabin 

It was just a mess.

I decided I had to clear the deck!

My feet still hur...

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I stole the soul of the moon,

Kept it unclothed to illume

Dark, deserted manor rooms 

And fireflies that forever loom 

Above fifty forsaken tombs.

I secured a piece for me,

Kept it between creases deep 

And verses of revered balladry 

Written on the tattered leaves 

Of my hands rickety.

But then came a shooting star,

Its hands stocked with bits of its hea...

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Could I be too cynical

In being so critical

Of a world political

And thus paralytical

It is unforgivable

Far too many imbeciles

Whose acts are despicable

Yet sadly predictable

Are held unaccountable

Such crimes insurmountable

And never rescindable

Have we reached the pinnacle

The answer equivocal

Is apocalyptical

LCB

2020

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I know this woman and I have seen the rest

I can go overboard and say she’s the best

She can take all the pain and then the stress

Will not show on her face, any sign of duress

There is a smile always that lays all at rest

Even when there is daunting task at behest

To me that’s the hallmark of a great human

Who lives for her loved ones, a life selfless

Let God bestow her wi...

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A Small and Simple Song

I'm of the easy, the gentler kind,

No counter of time as old Earth turns,

No twister of fate for the willfully blind;

My path's clear where the fair light burns.

I sing a small and simple song,

Lifted high by humble meter;

Largo textures, placid and strong:

A steady beat's all the sweeter.

The rhythm of my waking days

Is the song...

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Your eyes are on backwards, you're speaking in tongues
Expelling rancid breath from corrupted, rotting lungs
Breaking all the rungs on your plummet down the mineshaft
Rehearse, react, try to quote fact to the faceless
Spaceless outside brain, watching rain stain window
Bend low and embrace me, or mace me, debase me
Give it time and time will erase me, and thee

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Small agile grinning implike being

a whirlwind with magic feet

sometimes seen of clay.

Streetkid's eye for an opening

sphere stolen with incredible dexterity.

It must have seemed  to him

redress for youthful hardship

from penury to affluence.

Excesses of every kind

his many women forgiving

except the white lady,

and other wicked spirits

who held him in thrall.

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Treasure Chest

When you move east and west  

With no time, no rest

At that, you come upon a big treasure chest.

It was made for you

With the next jolly clue.

It was made from no other

Than colors and sketch.

Your next move, it points to the old- new riddle.

But, to get the next move you

choose, but please don’t fiddle.

Very, very good luck on the

 Big- long...

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"Walking Tender Paths"

Falling in love with a poet is weird-some

He begins by writing you poems in the night

About the beauty in your eyes, the honey on your lips

And the passion with which he would kiss each one of them.

Sensual right? But a poet isn't a blind lover.

He sees-talk everything in between

All are part of falling in love, 

nothing is left out because ...

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Life

The Lover

The Hurt

The Pain

The forgiven

The forgotten

So many things

Not the pandemic 

My liberty

I took that back

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In a hushed and reverent tone
he asked us to bow our heads
in gratitude for those who sacrificed
so much for our prosperity.

We took a moment to remember
those who lost their lives and
their land to the invaders
euphemistically known as settlers.

We whispered muted prayers
of thanks to those who lost
their lives and liberty to traders
paradoxically called masters.

We mumbled appr...

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Those who had been
Killing heartlessly,
Their back to the wall
Are now forced to fall!

Those who had been
Adamant to peace talk,
Vanquished, are
Beseeching for one
Seeking help round
The Sun!

Those who had been
Burning many
A church,
As a last ditch effort                                                                                                                          ...

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A bright and breezy boy of four

  I started life at school,

They kicked me out aged seventeen

  A lazy, worthless fool.

I never had a BMX,

  I never had a chopper,

I never had a hope in hell

  With Arabella Hopper.

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Always on guard of the love you claimed was ours

as I looked up at the stars 

I realized I was holding onto too hard

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Spare me your ditty of self-pity...

Your ballad of self-obsession;

Be aware this life we share

Is a "sad and glad" procession

That we all join from another's loin

Without a say in the matter

So make the best of all the rest

And leave out the "me...me" chatter!

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We Get It!

We get it

It’s dangerous

Lethal, I think they said

We hide indoors

Obey the laws

It’s better than being dead

We get it

But it won’t harm

Getting a hug or two

It’s Christmas after all

And deserved

After what we’ve all been through

We get it

The vaccine’s near

So we’ll all end up being alright

A kiss

Under the mistletoe

...

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“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb.

The Axe

The trees ignored his sharpened blade
reflecting in the forest's glade
for surely he was one of them
a leader bold, a fighting gem

They voted for the axe

Admiring the wooden shaf...

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Smile with everything you do 

even when doing a poo 

in the forest of love

His oven of celestial bliss 

deconstructing the knowing 

that is 

or could be 

or was 

or should be 

No longer a ploy 

but a bucket of 

Joy 

or piss 

who cares 

for now dismiss 

the past 

the future 

and soak in the liquid of grace 

a taste of heaven 

a warm embr...

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It's funny how small world's collide 
And may it be by chance or by design 
Lives become intertwined
An insignificant "Hello" is just the beginning, a fresh start. 
First introductions evolve into "I saved you a spot!" 
And from there we age into the years of teenage angst, learning the art of cheating on tests, giggling behind stacks of books while trading black nail polish and fake tattoos.
...

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Everyone feels distant

All my feelings are so inconsistent

My moral compass is broken

People love me but I don't love them

Where is the connection? 

I don't understand 

I'm not strong but I'm strong enough

I'm not smart but I'm smart enough

I'm not the worst but am I good enough?

You give me everything even when I don't deserve it

When I run away you hold me tighter

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This was my last reach my last time telling you that i dont, and telling you i cannot

I walked the walk and talked the talk and found out the other side aint that green

You decided that love aint gone dance on the floor Its not going to sing no more not going to go the mile for me 

Do you think i hate the moments I remember.... every step on the payvment

Why you think the sun doesnt sh...

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Of our lives, and of our meeting 

Of all the schemes of destiny 

It is that moment that, is most fleeting 

And of our fate, there is no perceiving

Of what will come, or what will be

Of our lives and of our meeting 

And in the grandest, scheme of things

And when of chance, fate does select

It is that moment that, is most fleeting 

And in our elation, of rej...

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Her name was Holy Givemore

She lived by the seashore. 

She had a way with words

that made us feel like turds.

She had a left eye

That stared off the right eye

Catching us all

Off guard. 

She said "I promise you this

I'll be your nemesis."

And we found out 

After that.

Why it's always best 

to lay to rest 

the thing you can't find.

No neve...

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12 Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas

Bojo gave to me

Fear of a virus

Spreading rapidly.

On the second day of Christmas

Bojo gave to me

Two metre distance and

Fear of a virus

Spreading rapidly.

On the Third day of Christmas

Bojo gave to me

Hands, face & space,

Two metre distance and

Fear of a virus

Spreading rapidly.

...

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Toxicity in human form
Your rage issues are crazy 
No ambition, degenerate bitch
Inconsiderate, ridiculously lazy

I’m sure you can’t stand the fact
I’m describing you with such candor
We lasted for 3 months what can I say
I must have lowered my standards 

Up my ass, go through my things
Nosy and super possessive
A wolf in sheep’s clothing, angry, jealous
A fraud, fake and obsessive

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Ujjal Mandal, India

we are all the

fragile drawings 

of each souls

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Unfortunate
That's what they said
They ran of arguments
Hearing the life i had led

Unfortunate
Is the word they used
As an armament
To excuse the abuse

I am unfortunate
To have been abused
Now It should be an ornament
I should be proud of my bruise

Display it to who wants to see
Collect a minute of a sympathy
Remind them they've been lucky
To not have been unfortunate

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cant say how the days will unfold,

cant change what the future may hold,

but now I am ready for what life unfolds.

I am no longer sorry,

for who I want to be,

cause that's just a part of me,

that's going to succeed.

I am so much more than you can see,

I believe in me ,

if I keep on working hard,

I am going to show you how wrong you are.

I will achiev...

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Thank God, or St Giles anyway,

For Stoney Clouds.

You could be anywhere in the: Peaks, the counties, the Dales or the moors.

Jays give sudden alarm in coppice charms,

As people arrive, who should be indoors,

Locked down from our friends and family,

But luckily not the green of Stoney.

Stoney, an apt name for stoner youth,

Pot-plastered at the bench,

On the summ...

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a compartment opens like a battery pack 
phials of vitriol, brand names
changing out weekly like gods
stale breath rolling forwards 
bare syllables 
and newsprint tattoos 
stamped sideways on sclera. 

and we fuck
twisting by the white of our eyes 
desperate to void each others' gaze :
Thresher be praised 
it works .

another day gone and forgotten 
triumphant brass blaring 
Nere t...

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The first time

Is a pin prick

To unstitch

Your skin

To feel yourself

Begin

You search your being

You are it:

Coursing through yourself

The second time

You search inside

A stranger

Behind the corner shop

You find where he begins

Adrenaline!

But come back,

Stinking of rot

Void of thought

To feel what?

What are you searching for?

To begin ag...

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When are you coming home mummy, we haven’t seen you for a while. I know they said you’d gone to heaven, but I expected you to be back by now. 

Are you in America, on a beach with your friends? I miss your cuddles, your smile, your kisses. You’ve been gone for too long now mummy, we need you home, on you we depend. 

Oh mummy, I really miss you - why did you have to die; my brother says your g...

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I know 
How you will speak
Before
You have spoken
I know how you 
Feel
Before the ice
Washes
Over your soul
I knew you
When you were
A child
I knew you 
When you
Were an animal
I knew how
You would 
Move
For the secret buttons
You think
You have hidden
The secret drum
Which resonates 
Within your soul
Is not so
Secret
We are all
Human animals
And animals
Of humans 
An...

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I’ve no idea what I’m doing here

Of course, it could just be an accident of fate

But it would be kind of nice

if someone could just tell me straight.

As an example of the human race

I’m feeling pretty good

Well, I’ve got a roof above my head,

I’m breathing

And the blood

That keeps going round and round

Takes the oxygen to my head

Or so it’s been said

I...

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Bonsai tree you are to me a magical form of life in a tree
In order to be at your perfection
Uniquely fed and nurtured by section
Treated with love from top to bottom
With pretty green leaves
You may start to blossom
What ever you give blessed be your owner
A bonsai for friend wont make you a loner
Oh beautiful bizarre miniature tree
I shall name you and love you
Bring magic to me 

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He Knows

He knows.

I can see it in his eyes.

He’s eight years old;

It says so on the caption.

It’s a gift to the photographer:

all emotion is there.

This eight year old boy, he’s sitting at the kitchen table.

He’s eating a burger,

a donation from the local burger bar.

Mum’s got no money.

She says she’s not hungry.

He knows she’s lying.

But he’s hung...

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Thoughts racing fast

Heart beating 

You can’t seem to find your mind 

You close your eyes and hear the thumping beat 

Thumping,racing, thinking could this be 

Energies so strong you can’t sit still and  breathe 

Thoughts racing fast 

Heart beating 

You close your eyes and hear the thumping beat

Thumping faster, racing, thinking could this be 

You tell yourself breathe...

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When The Fall-Out Settles

When the fall-out settles
Who will want to remember, all the Old Battles
Who will want to remember,
All the Glorious wins and scores,
The crushing defeats and despairing draws?

When the fall-out settles
Who will want to remember, the exact details
Of all, that was said and done,
The wasted time, that’s gone,
And remain consumed, by that yet to come?

When...

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Colourful illuminated laughter

unwrapping each other

love costs nothing

spend it well.

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The Wave is what i call her.

she comes and goes, sometimes not appearing for days or weeks or even months

and then i miss her terribly

she knows when i need her, when my heart needs a rest

she greets me,

full and strong and deep

she knows me, she knows my heart.

so i give her control, and she washes over me

i surf her, swim in her truth, drown in the cool

she whispers me...

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I need new material.
I need someone or something 
To grasp onto,
I need to create.
I need my mind crowded with
New ideas, 
I need my poetry to be written 
With new and 
FRESH material.
My poetry is like the desert,
Water is of the most scarce.
I find water but when I try to
Consume it, 
I realize it’s just my imagination 
And it always ends up
Being the same,
Empty Bitter sand..

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There's no rest for the wicked when I'm cradling death
I'm on the edge of self-harming again 
This is a race to heaven then I'll surely come in last
Because I'm hell-born and I'm surely not going to lie
I damn the Holy Spirit and I surely not glad about it
I can't go into a church without bursting into laughter
So I'm hell looking for an angel to grab

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There are so many people unemployed

They say they would work if the could

But, the great thing about being unemployed 

Is that the hours are so good

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Why am i so happy so content with being. What am I missing what am I not seeing. I’m not used to this feeling and it’s rather addictive, makes me start to appreciate each moment I live. It’s unusual to me, an unknown territory, clearly must be my selected destiny. 

It’s deceiving what my mind makes me believe in. Its harsh all of what my eyes have seen. All the places I’ve already been. Co...

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Sundays, Mondays

none of them are fun days

got us on the run days

every flippin’ day.

This week, next week

outlook’s getting so bleak

lockdown gets a new tweak

seems it’s here to stay.

Month in, month out

isolation - good shout

businesses need bail-out

but who’s gonna pay?

This year, piss year,

edge of the abyss year,

want to give a miss yea...

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She was just a girl,
With dreams she could not afford to see.
Trapped in a teenager's body,
She had a soul of three.

She was just a girl,
Who was supposed to have dreams.
Failing to find a way out,
She was left alone with her screams.

She was just girl,
With heavy expectations upon her.
Refusing to procrastinate her happiness,
She was then seen as a cur.

She was just a girl,
Who...

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fish and chip papers and stained smelly sweaters

dirty used condoms, the posh man’s French letters

fresh fast food cartons and old condom packets

discarded pizzas and broken squash racquets

matches, match boxes and cigarette butts,

oodles of noodles from someone’s spilt guts

ring pulls and beer cans, sharp broken glass

empty pill sachets and a lost covid mask

unwanted penni...

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Delicately etched features 
mark the guise of the benevolent leader.
Each contrivance a stratagem:
A lie but not a lie,
a truth but also a fiction.
A palpable fragility hangs in the air
contained within its enclosure.
In here everything moves, aware,
the smallest disturbance threatens a monumental fracture.

It moves effortlessly along
a handcrafted trail well tread.
Greed is satiated ...

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I can't see the color blue

It reminds me of how you broke me down

It reminds me of you

Do you remember how you made it pretty to make a mess out of me

How you left me scared

Hating myself

Your face is the one I dispise 

I hate that you sit so cute

But it's just a disguise 

You're a fucking monster

But I still love you

I look in your neighborhood 

Seeing all thes...

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The Wind has Always Been

Love has not always been.  Peace certainly not.

My spirit has waxed and waned in my human heart.

Family.  Family is but an idea no more real than the clouds

But the wind, the wind has always been, and with her there is no doubt.

In the fields as a child when I was wrestling with my spirit

She carried You fast to me - close that I may hear it

...

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The day had finally come he was free to roam the streets, 
that was until that fateful cold Tuesday morning when he met his match…
it was a creature, half llama and halfcrocodile.
The Llama-dile shuffled upto the man, raised onto his hind legs and 
asked would he would like a glass of red or white wine
to which he replied 'Both!', but could you please...
help me… no-one sees the real me. 
A...

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On a cold winter's night

They sat, hand in hand

Ravaged by time

Old in design

Two dinosaurs

In a digital age

Still in analogue love

Upon a wireless hub

Sitting on a park bench

Beneath a full moon

At the end of their time

Bodies poised to resign 

In a gathering frost 

They glisten as one

Hands intertwined

Old parchment defined

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This an ole ole one. Just thought I would give it an air.

Especially for those keen to evade the truth.

Be.........................

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My love …

She errs on the side of gorgeousness,

sassiness, and kindness

And that’s fine

Because she’s mine

My love …

She errs on the side of gentleness,

sweetness, and forgiveness

And that’s great

Because she’s my soul mate

My love …

She errs on the side of womanness,

openness, and togetherness

And a heavenly scent

That is heaven sent

And that...

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Impressive signs she has a design

Her eyes are like a spring divine

Love sprouting as her eyes wink

Her lips are a seductive drink

Enticing my mind with an infatuating line

Come winters and every thing looks shut

Yet she lets the world know that she has a bubble butt.

Passion fruits dangling from her chest

This is what she is at her best

When she leaves open the but...

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Fall 

Like a sweater 

It hugged me closer 

and never let me 

Fall

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You stare at the chair

That would have marked you a woman

One that your all your friends sat on

Proudly, too young to understand

The implications

You feel like a child

Among your friends

Who have all been draped

In the pleats of womanhood

A sprout in a garden

Of beautiful flowers

Your parents

Wanted to hide

Your red rose blossoming

Claimed that t...

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Neither the silver nor gold are tarnished,

Cradled by velvet and shut fast within

Proud symbol, symbolically banished,

Burnished no more with the oil of my skin.

Never discarded, but exiled from breast,

As knowledge fractured the edge of belief

Context warred against allegory’s best

A ritual removal granted relief.

No gold can represent carpenter’s creeds

No mo...

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I lay my head down,
With these words that come to mind.
Happiness and joy seems ever so bleak,
Somethings are just hard to find.
I paint a picture perfect scene.
But this is simply just a disguise,
Suppressing my truest thoughts,
That I hide inside.

My hearts tomb is real,
How could it be so?
My past has moulded me,
How is it I've grown?

My hearts tomb protects me,
But I can't ope...

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Each day contains its challenges.  
And by the hand of fickle fate,
It may be full of great despair,
And could drive one to hate.  

All life includes its stresses,
And may be turbulent and cruel.
Should we live with only hope,
Oft we may become a fool.

There are many great things in life,
Which should not be dismissed.
But if one should choose to give in,
There's much that can be mi...

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Extolled, derided, feared, divided, sought, lost, and gained!

Work separates and unites us; finds us whether

We are able. Puts food on an empty table.

You may pretend to be just looking,

Relaxing in the garden or facing the other way.

But work has something else to say.

Simmering in the background on a low heat,

Or smirking smugly from a sloping shelf

That ...

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Craving escape

From infinity

It entwines

For a while

In a body

Exploring confines

Of humanity

Begging to break

Unknown boundary

Releasing timeless

Memory

Tilts on the edge

Of insanity

Won't rest

Till it is

What it's 

Meant to be

A Quest that confesses

Eternity

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I think I think too much

It's like a cripple with a crutch

A crutch can inspire

lighting a fire to cherry the herb

only once in a while

for the thinking can become too great

it can keep a man up late

Alone with my thoughts

you think I could put them down

I'm just rambling on like a circus clown

so just turn your frown around

and hum a little tune

'cause we all m...

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Emotions is what makes us humans

The love we feel for family and friends

The joy we derive seeing our loved ones

Nothing in the world compares to true emotions

Pitter, patter the rain drops over the tin roof

Creating a joyous magic to feel through

My heart beats faster and faster as it could

A new life begins to grow within my heart true

Feelings are such intense ...

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Im free to walk the beach

Im free to smell the forest mornings

Im free to listen to birdsong

Im free to wish you near

Your free to walk away

Im free to indulge

Im compelled to seek indulgence in you

Your free to seek comfort away from me

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You are good
Very good
But then,
That good is not enough..

You are better
Better than anyone
But then,
Im sorry best still exist..

Oh you see you as the best?
Haven't anyone told you?
No one is perfect..
you can't be the best..

Oh darling,
Why accept that you are only good?
Trust me, you are better
Better than anyone...


Girl, never to trust their words..!!


Roovi..

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MR PRESIDENT (NO FAKE NEWS) OFFICIAL VIDEO BY FREDO VIOLA

MR PRESIDENT (NO FAKE NEWS)

There’s a war going on and on and on and on

There’s a war going on and on and on and on

Mr President Mr Chairman

the world is not your apocalypse

&

you are no saviours

&

peace

is not

a bargaining chip

&

missiles

are not

golf clubs or basketballs

&

murder by missi...

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Killing me slowly

I just wanna slice flesh so fucking deep

That the blood starts flowing just seeps

You hateful words cut through my soul like knife

I just wanna rip apart my life

End the endless pain

Stop tears flowing down like rain

Curl up so warm in my bed

Pray to god for sleep to end up dead

All I ask is to be loved

Not someone who p...

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For understanding we search to see,

A sign that life gave us the key,

To rightly know that you and me,

Are interacting as we need to be.

See God in creation had a plan,

That good intent was a part of every man,

And if through those eyes everyone you see,

Then understanding has become a part of thee.

You see through eyes focused by belief,

Then understanding is your only ...

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I feel so profoundly sad, I've felt like this for years now

I am only young; but I feel like I've lived the life of eighty years

I don't laugh the way I used to, but I don't cry either

I now enjoy solitude more than I ever have

I sometimes wonder if I've grown to love my own sadness 

I don't think I remember what joy feels like anymore, but I suppose, who does? 

I think my sadnes...

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i DONT belong 

i don’t belong here

i don’t belong anywhere. 

i belong alone .

i belong dead.

no one understands me.

i go in groups and try to talk but nothing useful comes out. 

i try to get people to like me but no one ends up liking me. 

im insane.

im so far in my own mind i can’t connect with anyone around me.

i hate myself. i hate who i am.

why c...

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The dog-days scorch Bordeaux. Behind closed doors

at his desk he sits, charting norms through a sea

of print. As reason discovers the laws

that define the natural good, history

is a realm he surveys, its changing customs,

till day lies buried in a stack of tomes.

And all around his own domain prospers.

His ordered vines, absorbing light, ripen,

grow fat in that calm hi...

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Your smile, your laughter was the light during the nighttime 

Your touch, The way your fingers would caress my soul 

Your voice , like soft melodies playing in my mind

Your time, if you had to say, it was well spent

Your life, was a gift; a small brown box draped in red ribbon 

our memories are embedded in my heart

I can feel it as if it were now. 

In memory of Chris...

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Dying

In today’s era, Humanity and Kindness are dying

Every day somewhere in the world, an innocent child dies of starvation

Many Elderly can be seen searching for shelter under the bridge, they shiver in winters without clothes and die from hunger

A conscious sense of realization is dying

We fear to get involved in other’s problem

Solidarity, empathy, compassion, generosity, hon...

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It’s been a tough year, so

we’ve decided to diversify.

The State Room, over the road,

were doing a roaring trade.

We don’t have a bar, or a ballroom,

or a grand piano, like they do, but

we have a car park out the back,

and some very long cables.

We can’t do in-house catering,

but Sharkey’s Grill & Ale House

are on the next block.

We’re working on a partne...

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Here's a poem I wrote to celebrate the launch of Rise! Spoken Word at The Bureau (filmed before lockdown but only just released)

Rise

May you rise like the phoenix from the ashes.

Reignite your precious embers.

Break from your constraints to dance on air.

Rise like the swelling tide, the harvest moon.

Rise like you will dare.

Rise like you're awakened from a hun...

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The hungry boy stares at herself like a clock
Mum hungers, drinking thistles in water
The children carry their empty plates in dreams
And haunt Boris but not Karloff.

Carrying their dreams in reflections 
Windy Miller considers sunset for better or worse
Observe the magnificence of now
Sealed with wax in a glass box brings
The other side of love.

In meeting, we would seal a fate, the ...

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The sun was supposed to save me
Erase the dark
Outside and inside

I waited patiently
and I was determined
Trusting my everlasting assumtion
That that thing will come
Take the pain away

It would just take time

The time of waiting
Biding in the dark
The aching anticipation in the cold
All of a sudden
Seems oh so sweet

Once the alleged change appears

But nothing changes

...

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NECK TO NECK AND FACE TO FACE

GRACE

DANCED WITH A CANEBRAKE RATTLESNAKE

WHILE RATS AND CHIPMUNKS AND RABBITS AND MICE

WATCHED FROM THE RAFTERS ON SATURDAY NIGHT

NOW

IT SAYS IN MARK THAT THE SPIRITUALLY FIT

CAN TAKE UP SERPENTS AND NOT GET BIT

BUT IVE READ THE GOOD BOOK AND NOWHERE DOES IT SAY

THAT WITH VIPERS YOU TANGO THE NIGHT AWAY

STILL SHE MAMBOED WITH MAMBAS

D...

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The lights go on

And the darkness slips away, from

The podium

The Twitter fueled hate

The stockpiling of lies, we thought it was too late

But it Brings a better day

Brings a better day

Brings a better day

A tombstone is lifted

And people can now breath

Not suffocating from insanity

And his personal greed

It brings a better day

Brings a better d...

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A simple note to explain doesn't seem long enough
To bring on one sheet my final feelings and thoughts

Why am I doing this and what lead me here?
It wasn't just one event and the timing wasn't near.

I'd start when I was younger but who can remember that far back?
Unfortunately I do with every panic and anxiety attack.

You'd probably start to see why by the time I finished 10th grade
B...

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This house has never been my home.

These walls are my prison cell.

This bed, so cold and lonely

is the tomb I lay myself in.  

Your touch on my face is silky smooth

before you bring the knife to my throat. 

You are the one who kills me

and the one who nurses me back to life. 

You have been my closest friend

and my fiercest enemy.  

Now I’m suffocating on my own b...

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I Want You

I want you in my life;
more than anyone else.

I want to hold you;
till Earth fades away.

I want your kiss;
till we can’t breathe.

I want you;
while we live.

Just you;
till death.

You;
me.

Free.

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Delirious, I swam through the air,

Scalding sunshine upon my back,

I discarded my fears to the seas,

My head swarming with hopes and dreams,

For now I needed no redemption,

No acceptance, no permission,

For my tongue had lashed at truths,

I thought I could never have spoken,

My voice did not quiver,

As the words poured forth like stream and river,

But the heavens had ...

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She said -- change is good!

I’ve said it before

Drenched in frustration

Trapped in dedication

With a windowless view

When change happens

When change overtakes

The body – The heart

And the time comes…

Mothers know it

There’s no holding it back

Without pain and suffering

When the time comes…

When the winds blow

When the lava flows

When...

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A Parachute For The Embarrassed And Fearless

The world displayed an embarrassment

As they countered it was down to

How the outside perceived it's trick

Of seeming to have need of parachute

Thrills but so high it seems difficult

Some walked away requesting their attention

That minute concluding the skyfall

With no escape and lie of roll

A Circus trick distr...

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Yes 

The universe can be 

A dark place 

But if you shine your light 

Maybe, just naybe

It will signal more of us

To shine our lights as well

And we can guide the way 

For the lost souls 

But be wary

Like yin and yang 

There must be dark and light 

Balance must always be restored 

When the light shines so bright 

Be prepared to face the dark 

Always act ...

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Where have the words gone?

Emptied vocabulary I wonder!

I can’t frame a single praise…

Biscuits she offered me politely

I had only peanuts to exchange.

I looked a savage in my own eyes

And she, a harbinger of change.

No thoughts about her for days together

Although she is cynosure of my eyes,

My stillness added to the inner solitude

Yet couldn’t create the effect...

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I don't believe in fairy tales
Or knights that save the day
I don't believe in happy endings
Or that good things just come your way
They say things will get better, but what happens when they don't
All the people that said they would be there, are the ones who usually won't
When a person truly needs help, and no one lends a hand.
Its like staring at an hour glass that's running out of sand
...

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Somebody famous once said 

That people aren’t afraid of being dead

They’re afraid of being forgotten

Whilst their bodies decompose smelling rotten

That is a lie

I know because I spy

People are afraid of the unknown

Afraid of what they haven’t been shown

No one knows what happens for sure 

Just know when you die their is no door 

Like when you’re asleep for hours witho...

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Here's some things I think are important to know about me.

I don't mean to, but I giggle when I'm nervous or put on the spot. Even if the situation is serious.

I get buttsore if I see others taking care of people in ways that I'm not able to.

But it's only because I turned out to be such a people pleaser.

I just want to be the one providing for everyone around me.

Much like the moon...

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Long road trips 

Mileage running real deep...

Sun rises ,night creeps

Setting into location 

Staring at the moonlight 

Reflecting on your inner soul 

Decompressing from toxicity

Setting your inner self for cleansing 

Renewing of your mind 

In search of your best version 

Leaving the old version of yourself trailing the new being 

Looking for inner strength 

Stre...

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Lost...

Lost into the pool of thoughts,

Thoughts of him with me...

Me, standing here for him,

Him, trying to make sense out of life...

Life, playing a pity game with us,

Us, still in love, deep love,

Love, may face lack of time,

Time will fly in a jiffy,

Jiffy, a moment of him & mine,

Mine, he will be...

Be forever!

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When I think

of food and drink

it's no surprise

the question does arise

some say

“The glass is half full”

with accent on the positive

some see

the glass half empty

and focus on the negative

two sides to every story

supposedly that implies

as for me I see

something else entirely

and for size I will apprise

but before I do

I beg of you

allow me one ...

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The gulls above me, wild and free
my song begins to echo theirs
squawks of tuneless noise
as I try to make some sense
or to release something

Watching the breaking waves
from a distance and then up close
I’ve been nowhere
but up and down the stairs
of this hollow and lonely year

It’s hard to remember the good I do
keeping other ships at a safe distance
as I patiently await the prom...

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