Dallying in the evening wild, studded with barbed wire,
My mind takes a turn for the worse.
Oak trees help me flee to the world I need
My mind is soaking up this new year’s eve 
Your slow gaze onto this solitary page
Releases the frame of my bondage to the world
Now only the mind can release the tension of the moment
My imagination leaps, frees my broken body,
into the dream of transmi...

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Ten seconds to go before I ring in the new year,

I balance on my left leg and let it appear.

On the last second of the countdown when the clock does strike,

To lay down my right foot is what I do like.

The trauma of 2020 behind my left foot I put,

And always start the new year off on the right foot.

A happy new year to all and sundry,

Let's hope 2021 will not be as thunde...

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We woke up to find our garden
covered in a light dusting of snow
Pretty as a winter wonderland
shimmering under a sunny glow

Careful steps across the patio
which became a temporary ice rink
Defrosted the frozen bird bath
a grateful blackbird came to drink

Every surface remained frozen
under blue skies, clear and bright
The temperature just below zero
the day glistened icing sugar wh...

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The New Year 2021

A time for New Year's Resolutions

for introspection and internal ablutions

A glance at the past where it now belongs

as we drink, dance and sing familiar songs

A time to ponder and begin anew

for there lies ahead so much we can do

Let us waste no time as the future beckons

it will soon be here in hours, minutes and seconds

If we are with ...

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We do not know

what he meant

and he did not know either

but it sounded good

at the time

it flew out of his mouth

like a undigested meatball

he thought he had really

put the reporter down

calling him

a "One Horse Pony"

in his mind

the ultimate insult

a brilliant putdown

he had scored

he thanked the audience

of otherwise compliant reporters

and...

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Refreshing your company has been. I must admit I find myself wondering about my future. I normally keep myself safe behind walls I have built.
My walls have come down quite rapidly. Something about you can reach though them and I don’t know how to stop you from finding the vulnerable me.

You look into my eyes I’m an open book written in a language which you don’t understand completely.
Questi...

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Assured me everything was ok

That he was a great leader

That scientists were wrong

We could live for the day

So radiant so confident

Said if you wanted to be rich 

You just had to pray

I believed in her love

Opposites attract

They say

Never having time to read

Laughing in the face of experts

It was only a cold she said

When ...

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A slant start sparked this slam, 

Soft whispers twirling atop busy macadam; 

A familiar far cry

From January faked pleasures across our sky.

Was born like a secret, travelled like a comet,

Spinned the viral faucet, laughed at from every state.

Cunning and surreptitious, evolved insidious; 

February wine flows, life turning frivolous. 

Exciting perspective of apoca...

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I am pro any religion that advocates harming no others or taking a life

Protecting the innocent, nurturing the lost and protecting wildlife

They come to my front door, knock, knock, knock for my attention

A personal invitation right from my doorstep to join their congregation

And generally the same question they are consistently asked by me

“I think all killing is wrong, tell me, do...

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I am from water.
I am from breath.
I am from body.
I am from blood.
I am from heart.
I am from thought.
I am from life.

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This year has been hard..
In more ways than one..
We lament about the dreams unfulfilled..
The chances missed..
The lives lost..
The barriers that surround us..
The fear that hounds us..
Among all these dark clouds, sun still rose everyday,
Flowers bloomed, life took some rest..
We bonded whether near or far..
We treasured families together and those apart..
We experienced the pain of m...

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say it was in the stars,

something supernatural led me to you.

say it was the moon

pulling my tides closer to you.

it’s something deeper

than a mere connection.

it’s something in the waiting

& it grows with our knowing.

you can’t put your finger on it.

there’s something there.

some call it ‘love’

but it digs in so much further.

it’s in our details...

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One day 

You discover 

God

Only, not how one 

Might imagine

But simply 

A part of you 

Or rather that you,

In all of your strengths,

Your weaknesses,

Your imperfections,

Your absolute beauty.

You are but one part.

Not all-powerful,

But a piece of the puzzle

The cosmic puzzle, that is.

And that together 

We are United as One.

We are whole.

Lo...

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In spite of it all, we stand here smoking
The dark is speaking a common tongue 
The rain is beating a common drum
In spite of it all, the fire churns
Young heart yearns for age
Brainwashed rage taught page by page
Enslaved by minimum wage
Final stage predetermined 
Doesn't matter how much you're earning
Look at that cigarette you're burning - 
Bring that Camel through a needles eye
Same...

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The rose was succulent and red,

Spoke of passion and desire,

"Put it away," the raven said,

"Lest their ire we tempt."

You thought yourself invincible,

A knight, an angel of steel;

But what are you willing to fight for

When it's fire you breathe?

Wore the rose in your hair, 

The raven be damned,

The smell forever trapped in air,

Hail ignorance, oh gloriou...

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The snow has fallen deeply overnight

to form a pristine carpet all around.

It rimes the trees with pure unblemished white,

and gently floats a dusting to the ground.

Outside the world is silent, not a sound

disturbs the deadened echoing of peace.

So tranquil is the morning, so profound,

until a passing robin’s shrill caprice

attracts our notice to his darting flight,

and...

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Invited to a talk

by a humble, yet well respected man

I learn about a life of exile

(that I am living)

& although the spotlight is not on me

it shines brightly

accentuating my distorted priorities

and all the while

I am accompanied by the living dead

A life that shines so brightly and yet fades before my eyes.

A man who is so close to me 

and yet a man I cannot tou...

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veiled her blue calculating eyes

perplexing glances in the gloom

doubts pierced my needy soul

doomed before I left the room

sultry night in old San Francisco

anxious moon smearing the bed

mood like some jack in the box

doubt running amok in my head

woke to discover a basilisk stare

examining my rank imperfection

my body was never the greatest

where is the...

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            in the pages of time

            inscribed upon the velum

            of argent skin sheer

            is her narcissistic life

            of dark immortality 

Her elegant movement of hand, infuses her script with graceful strokes of purpose. Her cantillating voice, a casting of spell; the binding of eyes to the page; to the ink, that of blood, blotted an...

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Liverpool won the cup…

In an empty stadium

And stadiums of souls around the world

Ascended into heaven

It was the best of years

It was the worst of years

Vaccines were produced at break neck speed

And lies disseminated to stop people taking what they need

Heath workers went the extra mile

Risking life and limb

Applauded by million with a loud din

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Born 2021...

You stabbed in the back

Of whole humanity,

Who at your arrival welcomed you

With wholehearted naivete.

We waited long, impatienly for you

To cheer,

In all glittering-gathering

Of the dear and near.

But alas!...

Like a traitor

You deceived us all,

On your very arrival

Caused bad omen everywhere to fall.

The jolt of your

Bad omen

Make the ...

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Dear Lord, please find me 

somebody to love.  

God replied, no, 

not just one love. 

I give you an ocean 

of eternal love 

found only in faith, 

poetry and music. 

From this special place, 

you will find love 

like you have never known,

from kindred spirits

around the world, 

transcending 

space and time, 

to give you a glimpse 

of the divine. 

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Thinks she's a failure
As a Wife and a Mother
A failure of all

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[ ] 1 + 1 = 2.

[ ] That shiny bright star equates to you.

[ ] That circle full of life that wonderful loop.

[ ] That beautiful flower that blossom & grew.

[ ] Low to the ground you will never stoop.

[ ] But high to the sky you will always shoot.

[ ] Praise & glory to the righteous & truth.

[ ] May the Universe bless, shield, & guide you.

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A task seemingly impossible made possible
enlightened me dearly and surely
The outcome of course
The old saying" If indeed you fall then get back on your horse"

Simple phrases ..the reality
Somewhat not so simple in physicality
For One dreads practicality

Push it aside ignoring such monotony
So much more excitement than to face such monstrosity

It won't go away you know
Escaping te...

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Falling

It's surprisingly easy to let your mind

Begin to wander

While waiting at a supermarket checkout counter only to find

You've no folding money left to squander.

Why, then, is this prim register lady with her deep-lined face

Staring so hard at me, while arching a disapproving eyebrow?

I must extricate myself from this frightfulness with a particle of charm

Since I...

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It’s your birthday Dad

But I am feeling sad

Because you are not here

For whom I party and cheer

You love your chocolate cake

As well as some chips with steak

Always looking forward to your gifts

Your lovely smile automatically lifts

Today just feels so empty

I was looking forward to plenty

I am aching from the inside

This feeling, I can just not hide

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"Yours in Everything"

 I sit forlorn in the dark

Guiding my thoughts to return

To the ways of sweet memories and you.

Hoping to find all we left behind.

Like the soothing touch of your hands on my troubled soul

Or the river-like calmness your laughter brings when it fades away.

I recall these and walk further into:

Your silence as your listened to my dreams

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The murmur of friendly chatter

The thuds and rattles
of heavy mugs and wayward knives on tables

The sizzle and smell of bacon

The intrusive noise of the coffee machine
ensuring everyone knows it's working hard
even if no-one else is

The dodgy teapot lids
sliding about
threatening to spill and scold

The ketchup and salad cream stand
upside down, on duty and ready to serve

Sa...

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তাড়াতাড়ি করতেই দেরী হয়ে গ্যালো। উন্নত মানের খাবার খাওয়া হল রাতে, নাগদান হয়ে বসে আছি এখন। ভূড়ির গৌরব স্পন্দনে রাত্রী পৃথিবীর ভার টের পাওয়া যাচ্ছে, স্থূলতারই ভারে কিনা জানি না মগজ কেটে যাচ্ছে উন্নত মানের বিষন্নতায়।

শিয়ালের ঘাড়ে চেপে দ্রাক্ষার কালিমা-দোষারোপ— বহুত দিন ধরেই তো লেপ্টে আছে ব্যর্থতার মতন জীবনের ওপেন সিক্রেটগুলি, তাই না? 

অনেকগুলি মুখোশ-
মুখোশ স্বভাবতই একটা দুরত্ব রচনাকারী চিজ ...

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Forty is, they say, when life begins.
And is it time to look back at your sins?
As you have finally reached middle age,
It is now time to turn life's page.

Now you are forty are you also wiser?
And have you started to become a miser?
Is your hair turning grey?
Do you stop caring what others say?

And on your life have you applied the brakes?
And do you start to find your muscles ache?
...

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We all know of one

A rusty old train trestle

Or a highway,  maybe an old street

A bridge,  going from ridge to ridge

Underneath,

The secret place where as young boys we would meet

Having adventures,  climbing and playing

And telling stories that could not be beat

One day,  imagine what would cross my mind

When a stack of old 70`s porno mag`s we did find

Showing privat...

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WE HAVE CREATION IN OUR HANDS

AND DON’T KMOW HOW TO USE IT

BEAUTY LIES WITHIN OUR GRASP

YET FEAR WE MAY ABUSE IT

WE HAVE THE WORLD WITHIN OURSELVES

YET WATCH IT SLIP AWAY

LIKE JEWELS THAT SPARKLE IN MORNING DEW

THEN DISAPPEAR WHEN THE SUN BREAKS THROUGH

SOMETIMES I THINK LIFES JUST A DREAM

A FLIGHT OF FANTASY

IF YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE

YOU CAN BE ...

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Pure white drifters

transparent tissue falling

frozen layers thaw

encouraging words connect

melting coldest heart

leaving snowflake love.

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Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay

I know that, strictly speaking, the Magi, are still on camel back following a star but I also know everyone is bored with the story by epiphany so here is my final Christmas related poetry blog. Courage, doubt, fear and wonder, in the story of the Magi. What had they been part of? Like us, they wondered whether ‘this was a future they wanted to know’…

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I wake up to the morning sunlight with a smile
Knowing that you are okay
Every day I pray that you be safe and sound
And I hold on to a faith that it will be heard
The day begins and ends with your thought
And happiness is all that I wish for you forever
Fate did bring us together but yet kept us apart
I accepted that, knowing that you are okay
Never knew that love could burn and then balm
...

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Play in the Night

                      --Michael Kwack

From two o’clock

When owls hoot

Up to four when cocks crow

Surely I will be kept awake,

To watch the secret play

Of the conscious and unconscious.

However, I will not see

The queer performance inside me

As a mere dream in the night.

If I long for better plays,

More will I wander dur...

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Sound, in motion on the platter
Around and around at thirty-three
and a third revolutions per minute
Through the needle to my ears
Warm and deep, with crackles and pops

The static and the clicks
coming from the dust is my favorite part
It makes the sound seem so delicate
like it could fall and shatter

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Ten years ago when Daughter No2 was a student at Nottingham Trent University she took a part-time job at Primark.  Until this happened.

The lights were all dimmed, they’d cashed the tills

The staff had gone home, their usual drill

A day uneventful without any thrills

In fact a bit of a bore

Till,

            Sammy got locked in the store.

She’d waited till shift-end ...

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The day when I decided,

what I will not..

And what I Will..

Moving on..

from the chaos and further wreckage.. 

Preventing the further mess.

I decided to be the best version of myself. 

I chose self esteem over suppression. 

I chose to love myself the way I truly deserve. 

I chose YES I chose. 

I wish if I had chosen before. 

And favored myself with the ch...

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sitting on some rusty purposeless wire 

looking down the platforms

of Paddington’s Circle Line

the rain falling gently

and settling on the head of a sad man

who walks in circles on the platform  

as if a bird looking for stale bread

almost like we do minute after bleeding minute

unless it’s shagging or building our nests

in some dying tree or leaf and moss filled gu...

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In the memory of all the flames that ignited coastlines,
The strings of dazzling Christmas lights,
The long-forgotten chronic normalcy,
The countless ceremonial wreaths—

I realize that from one beginning to the next,
We often overlook the vast expanse of nothingness.
Our stories swing from one pole to its antipode. 
The aftermath, a distant folklore.

But every grocery store receipt,
E...

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There it goes

Somewhere 

Off in the distance where nobody can see me

I'll take time to write my symphony 

Every word is an earthquake of emotion rumbling your spectrum 

Hear the soul's beat and become what I've always imagined 

You have seen what I love and became what I hated

If it was something that was mistaken I could say i hate what i created

Pain did not end it but ha...

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Did you pack my blue dressing gown Fred?

Yes Tommy.

Are you sure you packed my blue dressing gown Fred?

Quite sure, Tommy. 

Tommy checked himself in the mirror, made adjustments.

Fred, I havn't got a blue dressing gown.

      This charade for the sake of us in the band

      invited up for a drink which never happened. 

The varicose veins like his act were outstan...

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A series of Haiku's written on a daily basis in the form of an advent calendar, leading up tpo Christmas Eve. All relevant to the current situation on a daily basis.

1/12/20 First of December

Twenty four days to go 

Then it's Christmas Day 

2/12/20 Morning backoned

It was December second

Lockdown was over

3/12/20 The newspapers said 

There's a vaccine on the ...

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The abstracted mind

Can't delineate

The Uniformalities

That begin to postulate

I Reckon

The dawn beckons 

Of early Morn'

Forget me not

forgive me so

Subjects  taught

to be divisive

Hunky Dorie

That's just fine

The obtrusiveness

Injected into our minds

To seize control

Only

There is a flip side to this coin

What we fear comes from the outside

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Though I left Lee Park for pastures new.
I returned to see mates, as young lads do!
I spent my youth there, a teenager by then.
Mischief levels grew from when I was 10!

We learnt how to 'stick' the lift in full flight.
We played 'Bulldog' until no more light.
To get on the roof was easy...child's play.
But those high winds nearly blew us away!

Dangerous high jinks on Attlee House roof.
...

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I've found each piece of the mosaic has faith 
it is the only one so it believes
(and what kind of picture can this offer?)
all those others must be the same at least

it should be easy to imagine 
a line of flowers all bent to a southerly
or a myriad of bright colours 
all mere sparkles about a dolphin's eye

I could be convinced I'm catching the scent 
of magnolia and roses here 
...

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If Logic's the theory of Proof
and Inference a process to Truth
then it's impossible to state
a premise
then negate the conclusion
unless it's a spoof.

Words and foto Tommy Carroll

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mother tongue is the
language
of ambrosia,
dip in it and sip the honey!

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A young woman

A virgin and a baby

A carpenter

A donkey

A stable and a star

No beds

Shepherds and their flocks

Three wise dudes on camels

Keep away from a king named Herod

Pull up a chair pay attention this is no ordinary day

Don’t shun skip or evade

This is the guy to follow

The saviour of mankind

This ain’t no juke box jive

Fairy tale legend or pantomime

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Her journey along the path overgrown
with Honey Locust trees
has written storied lines of braille on her skin.

Pyschogenic scratches
from Nettle leaves
lead her twitching fingers
to healing wounds precariously,
but the black swan -
on edge, instinctively initiates
  biting feather-plucking.

Eyes blinded by glasses
of distorting mirrors,
while seeking hurried healing
for her molehi...

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my wife’s wisest gift

Swedish sweater socks wrap warm

wool around my feet

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Eeh it’s gettin’ darker and so much colder

leavin’ t’ pub I glance over me shoulder

In case I clock a face that may be

after me presents for Crimbo you see...

At Christmas time with bells on

Now a fella int’ snug, he sold me a rug

Not the ones for yer ‘ed but for near

yer bed, to keep ya warm if you’ve

‘ad a snow storm...

at Christmas time with bells on

It’s...

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You say the snow is a magical thing
Coming down from the heavens like magic
Before joining up together on the ground
And Father Christmas throws it all down
Just to complete the experience

Drifting your happiness across town
Whether by car or bus
In-between two places on Christmas Day
When another downpour
Leaves the pair of us laughing

Telling each other ironically
It could only ha...

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Thoughts
Are like lyrics 
A different song for every new idea 
A person must have millions of tiny little melodies running through their head. 
A playlist of constant activity, since our brains never find time to sleep. 
I listen to the reflective tune of every human I meet 
And It draws me in 
It keeps me hanging on 
Nothing is as satisfying as the words lived and breathed by another insi...

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This has been a terrible year

   Who knows what's coming next,

But never mind about that now,

   It's Christmas, let's have sex.

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Last shift done
On the home run
Nice iced bun
an' a cuppa tea
Merry Christmas to me! ?

Aw, go on then:
And to you 
The WOL crew xx ❤️

A strange year indeed

But, poetry took the lead

To conjure smiles & debate

And relieve a little weight 

All the best, time to rest ?

Steve xx

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‘What a strange man,’ she said.

‘I don’t know. We all have strangeness in our heart,’ he replied.

One week later, the strange man died.

‘I knew I was right,’ she declared.

If there is a problem,

It will not be shared.

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As we pause and take stock in present difficulty

There's something that impresses me;

Whoever we are and whatever our role

Happiness is a place called WOL.

Reaching out across land and sea

It's somewhere we're content to be

Whatever we write, whatever our goal

We arrive in hope on WOL

So - let's raise a glass to one another

Sister to sister - brother to brother

In thi...

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the tattered old man on Christmas Eve

snow was falling hard

as the old man struggled

through the deep drifts

on the country road

light shone from a

a farmhouse window

the old man smiled seeing the glow

it was a candle

the widowed mother had placed there

nightly since last Christmas Eve

a year ago

a man was found

frozen along this same road

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Here's the thing about the Bible It says "In the beginning." But doesn't say of what.  I guess we weren't full of ill-intention until we left the garden.  This is why in the complex XX YX equation  I have to own my original sin. It was curiosity.  A human trait. 

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The word into the world 

becomes backwards 

their ways of being change

sometimes they are silent 

sometimes they scream 

inside there is a deafness 

a space, that can make people listen 

I'm just not sure how to make them hear me...

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Exchanging presents 

in the motorway car park. 

Mimed hugs and kisses

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Before the curtain is raised the introducer briefs the audience about how an extremist group attacked the Ethiopian Nation Defense Force (ENDF) from the back and how a private woman solider forced a colonel, passing information to a traitor group, to surrender. Then she disarms and forces him to walk all the way to Eretria. He tries to sweet talk her to defect like him in vain.
( Followed b...

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Around the world turns with hurried paces,

Sped by such presently urgent intent,

Metered by spinning hands upon faces,

Feeble or frantic, to varied extent.

That world spins about my adopted seat,

Dictated by ticking, blurred by the rush,

While I simply watch, no weight on my feet,

My eyes show no stress, my face feels no flush.

External, I hear not each ticking be...

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One hell of a year it’s been and man I was feeling low

There have been times when on I just couldn’t go

But I am going to be strong no more time for hesitation

There’s a celebration exploding all across the nation

It’s Christmas time so let’s get this party started

Put a big smile on the faces of the broken hearted

Now’s the time to give out a little peace and love

Bare y...

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We don't wish you a Covid Christmas

Or New Year in I.C.

We hope you keep distant

And all wear your masks

No Mistletoe this Christmas

As kissing is banned

Let's hope we can beat it

With help from Above

We wish you a happy Christmas

And hope you keep safe

We wish you a happy Christmas

And a better New Year!

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Stuck in a boat for days and months,
Empty minds and empty stomachs.
Ocean water is too cold,
For which if you think you swim you drown.

You see wave, you become one.
You see sand, you become one.
You see fish, you become one.
You see snake, you become one.
You see whale, you become one.
You see ocean, you become one.

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink?

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Another stranger’s eyes,

Observant…

Fixed beyond their window’s landscape,

like passengers in time…

A new journey to a cold winter day…

Awaits…

At fast pace above the tree tops…

They start to wonder…

How many lies?

How many lives?

Vacant…

Look forward to arrive…

Can’t wait to depart…

Like passengers in time?

Turning the fleeting light,

a ...

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My head full of memories

questions this odd world.

Sharp thoughts of my past lives

could cut the air infront. 

Faces of the people

I used to hug and kiss,

seem like an old movie 

which doesn't yet exist.

My future - dark and empty 

- is waving back at me,

I touch around for face

and only find a dying bee.

In the darkness lonely

it whispers in my ear:

"why ...

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The cracks spilled over,

Bursting out of the mental

Construct of my cerebral

And constructing a body of their own.

Going toe to toe with my alter ego,

Glass breaks glass,

Leaving nothing but jagged edges on the floor.

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I call upon my ancestors from my genetic lineage 

I call upon the acenstors in humanities heritage 

I call upon the thou from our spiritual indigenous

I call upon the Gods and the spirits and the universe 

I call upon the leylines, the energy and source 

I call upon thou to gather for discourse

May the hearts and minds of women and men 

Be courageous and strong, may we re...

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Why are they always pulling Britain Down . Why are we tolerating the EU. We import more than we Xport . If they put Fourty % Tariffs on us . We put Fourty % tariffs on them . Loads of Money . Import A Bllion more than we Export. We would make  Four Hundred Million Pounds More . So where is the Problem . The problem is their is too many fingers in the Pie . And Too Many Gravey Train Remoaners.

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Dream catcher weaved

Of string and with bead

Tied altogether

With many a feather

From the land of closed eyes

The conscious denied

Yet caught in it's net

Are all dreams

We forget

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The ghosts of past decisions whisper in my ear, 
But they’re just hollow spectres trying to make their voices heard,
I’ve learned to deal with their fretful chatter without fear,
To disregard their wailing for the value in their words,
What had once the pain of being dragged across the open coals,
Now just offers reason, that and nothing more,
And once you realise every bridge you cross...

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Gallons embezzled through commissions,

Lawyers-

For once getting money was easier than buoying dead lies in courts,

Many clapped hands for death of their enemies,

At the end few heads were chopped,

To some-

Judges concluded before commissions started.

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it's taking over me

i am my own worst enemy

i am hopelessly lost in my own head

my words are so hollow and dead

hands over mouths

hands aroundyour neck as the gasps become howls

you are so cold and alone

you can search but you will never seek your home

crawl right into my face

its such a dead empty place

crawl right out from the inside

forced out by a sou...

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WE LET IT GO

The accumulation of three score years and five

has half woken me and drawn an ageless blade that

shares my bed – to be clear, its domain lying underneath –

a little blunter than once was, when proud Boy Scout would

scour and burnish carbon-pitted pots and pans in return for

cherished sheath knife, soon to be illegalised (remember

we outlaws’ conspiratori...

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I stared into the abyss

Into the place void of hope

Into the chasm that swallows all dreams

I stared into the darkness before me

Shut your eyes the voice said

Look inside, I was instructed

Look beyond what is before you

See, I said see all that resides within

All you see, is not all there is

There is more inside

There is more set up for you

Look to me and...

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On my darkest days you have been my light

You have helped me to shine bright 

Always telling me that I belong

Always reminding me that I am enough

When my heart it blue

You are my glue

Nothing can describe the bond between me and you

You always see me through

Thank you for being my best friend, my sister, and simply you 

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There is a new endangered species 

No dissent is the road we embark

The mourning of the greatest punctuation

The tragic death of the question mark

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I know I’m frustrated.

I know I’m angry.

I don’t know why.

I know what to do

To try to quell it,

But for one reason

I don’t want to let it go.

I surround myself with

Loud noises and angry voices

Ride a wave of my own

Feather spitting.

And still I don’t know why,

I just am.

A vigorous scribble scratched

Inside my skull,

No end to pull at.

Ju...

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He was not really special 

Just an ordinary guy 

I guess you’d call him

A regular 

Joe 

An ex-army man

He took everything in his stride

He was a positive guy

He was happy to help: He rarely said 

No

Throughout his life 

He took it all on the chin

When things were hard he worked his way through 

He never asked why

He was easy going: he’d go with t...

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Lemme collect these shambles, ones scattered in the name of cards ungambled.

Battles that left me rattled. Pieces that never fell together.

 Realisations gone to tatters. Memories forgotten, altogether.

These pieces of armor unfused forever.
 Energies wasted in mindless splendor, with ideals crafted in inks without matter.  

These caricatures of youth, wasted in canvas of unwritten ...

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Is that me in the mirror?

Is that really me?

I already have two sisters;

Maybe I have three!

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Us flipping vegans

We can get so mad

With the world, with our friends,

Even with ourselves

For any lack of vegan purity

Conflicts with our vegan surety

If there’s one thing worse than a carnist

It’s a so-called vegan purist

Who eats organic honey

Bought with tallow coated money

Who wears non-vegan shoes

Made with non-vegan glues

Buys non-vegan booze

For their...

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He looks out of the open window 

at the end of the street,

cold and grey it seems like melancholy 

& there she stands afar

calm and still,

like the depths of the ocean waters;

as the time slips and the 

night sky drops on this world,

the moon shines bright as ever 

envied, as it looks at her glaring eyes,

radiating without the help of another star 

like firefl...

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12/16/2020

I am not your worth or your dependency
I am not leniency to justify your overwhelming emotions, your needs
Don't put your weight on me, to be superhuman, to fix all your stressors, your drowning emotions, to hold yourself up in the dark, dark ocean
I have held my own body up for countless years, sunken, and risen up again and all that with the help of no one, especially a man
D...

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No heartbeat, as it sinks deep into the pit of the gut.
The nerve of them, the pain from them, of the simple word,  'No.'
"You're not good enough, to be one of us, to join our Horse and Pony show."
Another one, the effort, the hope, I'll pretend not to care.
A moment without words or thoughts, the breath is gone. 
Eyes blink once, yes, the void, the pain is still there.
Sitting stuck for a m...

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Walking through

The halls of this house

(of your youth)

Under blankets of weight

The heat, the heaviness

(the memories)

Why do my hands shake

Like I can still hear

Their voices, their footsteps

(the anger, the sadness)

Like a puppet on a string

(docile, weak child)

I am pulled

Into closets

Blurry dreams

(nightmares)

Are forced into focus

(do ...

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the problem is memories.

they last too long. they linger in my head. 

the good, the bad, they all get mixed together. 

i remember all the wrong, all the shit i said, 

so i sit here wondering if i'll remember forever. 

the problem is emotions. 

they make me feel. i'd rather be numb. 

i never asked for them, but my body wants to react. 

they're all so real. can you take ...

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Our land is sad

Most People have run away

Only seniors have stayed

To die under the marvelous sun,

Loved things are sad

Loved things were too heavy

To bring with us 

Loved things have been forgotten

And Dust has covered them

Pets are sad

They were abandoned by their owners

In a hurry to escape

Owners are not hungry anymore

but pets have continued to be hungry...

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It all starts in an oxytocin bath,
drowning in aphrodisiac dreams.
Best friends sweating through
amorous bouts of battering lust.

You begin purposeful procreation
and embrace coparenting with zest.
In a blink, you go from saying “they’re
so cute and tiny” to “they grow up so fast”!

Bliss you’ve had and content you’ve been,
but somehow merriment becomes misery.
You begin to hoard a st...

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Trusting the metaphor of parental alienation
Drunk on the Tropic of Cancer before the hangover of reality
He left her for a bar stool

Four legs seemed more reliable than two
John and the Geisha girls are riffing rhythmic haikus on the railroad
Oh dear, don’t be late with a suggestive gift.

Little people appear everywhere.
A moment of sunlight between suicide and sex

And whatever lay ...

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A lot of my friends only call so they can smoke and

Most people wanted me until I started hurtin'

The journey to contentment's like pouring water on fire

Finding happiness is the only thing I desire

I'm fragile, I'm too naive, and my heart's exposed on my sleeve

Whenever I start to get happy, someone gets distant then they leave

If loneliness is a disease-- I must've caught the i...

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This music,

it makes me want to fall from the water

float in the sky,

stare at those lips

and kiss those green eyes,

drink from the clouds

and jump on the pond

to feel the stars

and gaze at the stones,

the rythms , the notes

melt my mind

ignite my visible voice

I'm not here nor there

maybe inside a void

floating on the blues

maybe its a d...

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The Raising Of The Trickster

When the western sky turns slowly into the colour of an old bruise

And the last orange streaks of daylight bleed from the setting sun

A cold white vapour swirls through the fields of corn its fingers prising apart the stalks

As the lands of Albion darken and strange noises start to crawl from the mist.

At the edge of the fields there sprawls a ...

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Frozen things burst
if they are reheated
to quickly
that is true
for metal
stone
and glass
as well as for hearts

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