Life Tapestry
Friday 31st December 2021 11:09 pm
Also by Carl E. McClellan:
Path of Tears | A Time of Change | Earth School | Transformation |On Hearing A Lament
No one as simple as I
need claim visions, or tortures
but when you sing it I see it
Oh minstrel, Oh chantuese.
The second worst thing in the world:
the ones I love most driven to tears.
Worst is when I have been the cause.
What wouldn't I do to have it any other way?
How it ever happens is humbling.
And easily, unintentially, repeatedly:
a nightmare that threatens my sanity.
L...
Friday 31st December 2021 10:12 pm
Also by Adam Whitworth:
Despondent Correspondent | Why We Die | Holiday | Hello? | Robes Of Red, Skies Of Blue | Our Patch |Another year passes by..
Friday 31st December 2021 9:31 pm
The Devil's tempting cocktail (new year fail)
I'm losing it
I'm losing it
I'm stood right here
refusing it
an ice cold one
that shouts-
'get gone!'
that thrills of
my abusing it
I excuse myself
a ruse myself
excuses me and
I myself
deny myself
a lift from
this Moscow mule
that i drive myself
I'm losing it
I'm losing it
I'm giving in
and chosing it.
Friday 31st December 2021 8:08 pm
The cloak of nothingness
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Hemingway.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–1881). Courtesy of the Phillips Collection, DC.
When I look into the mirror
I do not see my face
I see those ghosts behind me,
Trailing blood and lace.
Please excuse my misapprehension,
I do apologise for my fault,
...
Friday 31st December 2021 7:31 pm
Also by John E Marks:
from swerve of shaw to blend of bray | A terrible beauty | Three blind mice | Inner City Blue | The family face | Torn | AWAY TO THE CRAGS, WHERE EAGLES SOAR | GENOCIDE | Visiting time | Saying goodbye | In defence of the sentimental | The Lorelei | Sonnet | Old photo | Heart murmur | Pink moon | Troubadour | Torn Apart | Empty spaces | The unwritten | Family values: No pasarán! | The never-ending Good Friday | Christmas roses | Written at a time of great cruelty and much hypocrisy | When the poet ceases singing | Wind-blown |Goodbye 2021?
Will this new year
be a new year?
Or, the same as the old?
I guess, patience is an essence of time
As we wait for what unfolds
So, goodbye to covid
Goodbye to crime
Goodbye to war
Make peace in our time
Goodbye to jealousy
Goodbye to rage
Let love be the sunlight
And, Earth, be its stage
Goodbye dictators
Goodbye to greed
We're under on...
Friday 31st December 2021 6:04 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
A Winter Escape | I still believe! | The Christmas Tree... | The Last Noel | A Silhouette In Time (re-post) | Dim Tim | The Sixpence II |NO BONHOMIE FROM ME
There's a breed that won't get New Year bonhomie from me
The culpable controlling Chinese Government Commie!
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Friday 31st December 2021 3:30 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
CHRISTMAS EVE | GENTLEMAN'S RELISH | WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AROUND - a seasonal hymn | THOUGHTS AT CHRISTMAS - an annual re-post | THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - a song lyric returns | BEATING HEART | CHRISTMAS SNOW - a re-post for those away from home at a precious family time. |2022 or twenty twenty too?!
So the sun ducks down
Shattered clouds frown
Crimson rays mix with gray
The sky starts the count down
All feather balls are back in nests
Bellies full, they're ready to rest
The restless Venus sparkles again
The Golden Ball is deep in the west
Another year has come to an end
Wrapping wounds and grieves to mend
Our happy memories brighten the eve
As from the cradle of the Earth Moon...
Friday 31st December 2021 2:08 pm
Professor Sarcasm reading Reverse Philosophy
Discard your mask
crowded party dance
airless disco club
perfect sensible setting
can't catch me
Coronavirus D J says.
Friday 31st December 2021 1:10 pm
Also by Nigel Astell:
Living, Loving and Laughing | The Mistletoe Invitation | On a Merry-Go-Round of Happiness | The Short-Sighted Snowman |Hoopla
Friday 31st December 2021 12:48 pm
Also by d.knape:
Who Nose | Butterflies | This & That | Sardine | Straw-Colored Grasses | After | The Christmas Sampler | Cedar Tree Christmas | Old Oak | Snail | Arthritis | Afterthoughts | Strange Relationship | Taking My Finals | Dogs & Trees | Purple Sage | Bad Road | Offensive Coordinator | The Protocol | A Land Without | Christmas Tree | Left Handed Compliment | Like Trees | Contented Cows (warning) | An Autumn Day | Mistakes | Mistakes | Proof In The Pudding | The Sun Is A Thief | Handshakes | Opening Night | Small Town Bakery |ALWAYS THINKING, ME
Now I’ve retired I’ve adopted a routine whereby I get all my chores done first thing so the rest of the day’s my own. This morning, for instance, I’d read-the-paper and had-the-shit so I settled into my shed in front of the log burner, put the coffee machine on and started thinking.
All sorts.
And every argument I had in my head I won by clear philosophical thought.
Now after an hour or ...
Friday 31st December 2021 12:28 pm
Also by John Coopey:
FAIRY LIGHTS | THE MOORLAND TRAIN | SANTA KRAMPUS | THE TIME OUR GERT FELL INTO THE BARNSLEY CANAL | THE FIA | SCARBADOS | THE LADDER | COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE | AND SO THIS IS BREXIT 3 | 20 YEARS FROM NOW | THE BLEEDIN' OBVIOUS |That crucial difference
come on down
on crushed spirits
bring me your
broken promises
I’ll take all
secret wishes
and any
last chances
join me on the lost crusade
gone tomorrow here today
roll up for that passion play
staring you and me and everyone else
we don’t need
reservations
leave behind
hesitations
I’ll bring enough
skepticism
...Friday 31st December 2021 12:20 pm
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
Mutual Savings | Thinking about the park when it's closed | The King of Sweet Nothings | Let's go to the store | Characters | North and South | Prove you’re not a Robot (Attachment Unavailable) | Where the logic breaks | The optimist | Libraries | The Underdog | Unless | Convenient Metaphors | Ideology’s for Kids |New Year, No New News
It’s New Years Eve, the last day of twenty, twenty one
This time last year, we were hoping Covid would soon be gone
One year forward and the news is very much the same
Covid still makes the headlines a new variant is to blame
We pinned our hopes on the vaccine to bring an end at last
But the rates are rising, it’s spreading across the nation, fast
Infection rates are at their highest...
Friday 31st December 2021 11:53 am
Also by julie callaghan:
Kite | Testing Times | Veil Of Grey | Twixmas | Christmas Robin | Christmas Eve Hangover | Winter Woodscape (is that even a word) | Winter Solstice | Christmas Cheer And All The Best For The New Year (repost) | Ducks | December Moon | December Delight | Speedo Mick | Here You Come Again (Bolly Partyon) | Christmas Past, Present and Future | Molten Lava Skies | Picture Perfect | Brighter Days | The Star Of The Show | Bah Humbug | Three Is A Crowd | Christmas At Blenheim | Christmas Fair 2021 | Today’s Show | Morning Walk | First Of December Disappointment |White Friday (day of noor)
Every Friday is special for me
It's a day where week finally breaks
The rest for the end that's beginning today
And more so it's a celebration day
Fridays are very special for us
A day marked holy in our calendar
It's like a day of eid every week
Something miraculous we do seek
This Friday is all the more different
It not only ends the weeks boredom
But we...
Friday 31st December 2021 10:41 am
Also by Ghazala lari:
Divine love | On my demise | Chapters of life |Self inside
I am more than my sexuality. My job. My pleasure. My image.
I am my past
my future, my lessons,
my life, my heart, my fears.
My skin aches to be loved and my eyes to be seen,
my ears to be heard,
and me
.. me... ME... to be seen.
My passion, is not simply created and finished between my legs,
between my thighs,
but flows within my body like glitter in the wind.
...Friday 31st December 2021 9:20 am
Also by Sarah-Kaye:
Expressions of turmoil |2022
As we enter 2022,
What will it bring for me and you?
Will it be a brave new year?
And not be filled with dread or fear.
Will it bring us joy and bring us hope?
And no longer find it hard to cope.
Where we'll get back to normality,
And this will be our reality.
Will this new year bring us new beginnings?
Where we'll succeed and keep our winnings.
Where we will get on the proper trac...
Friday 31st December 2021 8:12 am
Time
The health and growth of the human soul
To reach the highest point as pulled from the earth to the light
survival of the fittist
A dance to reclaim your rights
A dance with the Devil
spun into the pits of darkness
Alone with only the energy of your creation
The loss of strength
The loss of will
The structure of thought in the image that you have projected
Burned to ...
Friday 31st December 2021 6:05 am
Also by New Shoes:
Happy Holy Days |Spitfire
Skating down cracked sidewalk waves
Shedding this mind enslaved
Shredding in the name of peace
Inner peace, not some short term lease
The real deal, official seal
Watch me steal away down this sidewalk
Hear my wheels talk under streetlight
Disappear into deep night, no fright
Riding concrete waves out of sight
Knowing this feeling is right
Friday 31st December 2021 5:22 am
Also by Patrick Kennon:
Our rotting green garden |How, when and where
How, when and where
I lost my laughter and smile
I can't recall the way
It slipped off my face
And went somewhere else
How, when and where
The unity can be sought
The hearts meant to be woven together
Shall find their home on earth
To live forever together in love
How, when and where
Democracy was lost
Dictators creeped within
Spreading misery an...
Friday 31st December 2021 4:07 am
Also by Sunshine:
Assorted | 87. Poem | 86. Poem | Lonely island | 85. Poem | Expectations | 84. Poem | 83. Poem | Marriageable age | Magnetic | 82. Poem | 81. Poem | 77. Poem | Good night | 79. Poem | 78. Poem | 77. Poem | 76. Poem | 75. Poem | 74. Poem | 80. Poem | Finally . | 73. Poem |My reflection through the glass just makes me walk pass,
No matter what I see it will never be worthy to me.
I can't stand the sight that makes my stomach tight,
I bite my lips and my eyes are teared up bright.
I fear that I no longer want to be here.
Why should I? When all I ever do is give up and sigh.
So please light, take me up high,
Up above the sky to a place w...
Friday 31st December 2021 1:07 am
New Beginnings
New Beginnings
The very roots of my inner being tingle with anticipation
as we make our preparations for the New Year celebration
I possess a renewed sense of profound optimism
as I discard the forlorn cares of past pessimism
My mind is overwhelmed with new and inspired ideas
which look forward to new and fertile fields
I shall cast away the clouds of despair and depressi...
Thursday 30th December 2021 10:12 pm
Also by keith jeffries:
A Glimmer of Hope | Poets | A Peculiar Inheritance | A Decent Folk | The Soul | A Tangle of Tinsel | There is still hope | The Conundrum of Life | Encirclement | An Illusion | World AIDS Day | In my element |Addictive families
I am fighting an addiction that I cannot seem to shift,
Every single time I try it makes me feel like shit,
So tasked with making myself better, I reach for another hit,
Looks like I’ve failed again, again my mind set split.
Round and round and round I go desperate for that ride,
The pace at which I’m spinning starts to hurt my eyes,
I hold on tight ...
Thursday 30th December 2021 4:28 pm
Also by Luke:
Follow the leader | Redemption |Wild Woman (3.)
Born of something more than flesh and bone
She wasn’t of this world
And maybe that’s why she felt a great deal of pain
Maybe that's why she chose to be wild
Thursday 30th December 2021 4:05 pm
Also by Jordyn Elizabeth:
Grief | Losing Hope. | Death. | Pain. | Wild Woman (2.) | Wild Woman (1.) | Home. | Good in Goodbye |My wish-Happy new year
My wish -Happy new year
Thursday, 30th December 2021
What shall be my wish?
What shall be the words to finish?
I know nothing about the entire world?
some unknown fears unfold!
"Wish all, Happy new year day" my conscious is told
this must come from all
rise and become tall
no disgrace when faces a fall
let everybody have a resolve to scale walls
let march be contin...
Thursday 30th December 2021 7:06 am
Also by Jadia4708au:
Compares when necessary | Qhat makes you lose? | Mirror of thought-Poet | Less struggle | Rose fragrance | If the wind | Trust your ability | I love peace | Not to be told | Withered tree | Tackle the problem | Love has a action | Poetry-deap ocean | Quest for knowledge | Feel not proud-Death | Feel not proud-Death | If I knew | Rich culture | Heavenly blessed woman | Touch the ground | Crucial test | Make friends | Love nature |Observer
On the outskirts of a sadness
otherworldly that casts one
into the mould of observer,
a mere overseer of self
who's no longer tethered
to the entity observed,
the very entity that can
no longer be embraced
as one and the same,
no matter how congenially
the arms are outrstretched.
Thursday 30th December 2021 12:47 am
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Presence | Needs Must | Disciples | Piecemeal | Mosaic | New Stars | Transition |nightly thoughts
a chocolate Santa Claus
a piece of motivation
a piece of dedication
a piece of dictation
mission failed
a piece of self hate
a piece of failure
a piece of disappointment
a piece of weakness
cancelled mission
new year, new start
mission restarted
self-hate
lose weight
goals you have to achieve
goals you can't achieve
goals you must proceed
con...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 10:51 pm
I feel crap today (sorry)
Crouch on a mountain
Of a life times emotions
Piled high like contorted corpses
Stretching their hands
Up to me to pluck them
From the detritus
Rotting from the bottom
Melting into stinking filth
Collapsing under its own weight
Delivering eternal fate
Each day bringing layer
On layer of unclaimed fears
Cemented by rivers of tears
Navigated b...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 8:00 pm
Also by Edbreathe:
con fuse shun | bAL-a-NCe | Shdw | Molden Y(ears) | Feet | THEM | Fevvered |The Gifts of life
To breathe is not a thought
We do it all day
Never realised we do
Since it's a gift of life
To love you is easy
I do it all day
Never realised I do
Since it's just another gift of life.
~D~
Wednesday 29th December 2021 5:04 pm
The Wonder
Kicking through the moss
in the cooling evening air
I’m staring down the barrel
of a living Rivelin Valley
Crickets clicking in the tall grass
bramble searching for a shin
I stoop to flick away
the tickle of a nettle
caught under my tongue
O, why could I not have felt this way
at twenty one
To know myself
my capabilities, my limitations
to feel this comfortable
in my own skin
...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 3:59 pm
Also by Tom:
Ship In A Bottle | The Faintest Farewell |The Tower
I built a wall around the shimmer of God.
Layer upon layer it was layed
Cast in the blood, And the filth, and the Death.
Built on foundations of rage.
Forged from the darkness, the fortress was bound.
As the molten tread flooded the bank.
Plastered among the dark shadows of envy.
Built on foundations of pain.
The tower was high, no crack to be seen
the bricks were...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 3:48 pm
Also by Nintai:
Gaia | Tip Toes | Those Who Flicker | The Wave | Watts |The Quiet Spirit of Christmas
The spirit of Christmas descends with a whisper
Unnoticed by shoppers and revellers
To sprinkle a little of its magic dust
Which settles into the spaces left between
Food piled in kitchens; parcels tucked under trees
Deflated decorations; precious hopes and dreams
On Christmas Eve children in pyjamas, wait longingly
Peering through bedroom windows
Hoping to glimpse Sa...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 2:44 pm
Also by Brenda Wells:
The Turn of the Year | Midwinter Mistletoe | The Woods in Midwinter | Dark December Days | The Wise Oak - A Celebratory Haiku |IN THE YEAR
So. We are done with our expierence of the year 2021
What might we do with the year 2022
Well, first we can dry our tears
Brought to us by the pain of the previous years
Get over our misery, and confront our fears
Life as we have known it has reached its end
Time marches on, another year passed, we turn the bend
Forever living with a pandemic is now the new trend
Death at o...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 11:51 am
Also by J.D. Bardo:
THE DIAGNOSIS |Sorry
I was told I need to filter my words.
Be more quiet, let others be heard.
...and for that I was sorry.
Potential suitors intimidated by my success.
Friends tell me maybe say less.
....and for that I was sorry.
Scholars pointing out my looks as I tried to study my books.
Was there a step I mistook?
...and still for that I was sorry.
But year after year, my fears ...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 3:54 am
Festival
At Aldeburgh you have to watch your back.
The beach is chilled, the Borough vents its wrath,
And whispered, ghostly choruses proclaim
‘Grimes’, as though in agony. Tormented,
A man prepares to sink his boat. Foghorns
Sound on nearby sandbanks. Night shelters shame.
Sweet morning comes, tearing at consciences
Of perky seafarers. Go, cast your nets,
And bring home lost m...
Tuesday 28th December 2021 9:42 pm
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Flying | The Shortest Day | A Time to Pray (A seasonal poem) | Matchstick Dream | Public Gaze | Sleaze | Paris | Post-War |STRANGE MUSIC
It was said by some that the church organ
played of its own accord
behind locked doors with no one inside
to do the playing,
but that was when a hesitant wind
sprang across the stubbles of wheat
stretched the branches of trees to harps
and the leaves of hedges with a - rustling
like an ordinance.
Suffolk byways keep their secrets well
and backs are turned agains...
Tuesday 28th December 2021 9:25 pm
Also by ray pool:
STAND AND DELIVER | SELL BY DATE | WINTER WEST WIND | VIGOUR MORTIS |At ceremony of the poem
I wantted to know of the Violin
How much he suffered from his heart-
The melody of pain canbe heard
The Violin could not answer.
I wanted to know the sun
How long did it burn?
I would he can shine as you as
Even today I have not received any answer.
Profit calulates Lose
Never walk the path
When's I think your nice face at abnormal bored.
This is the magic of good ...
Tuesday 28th December 2021 7:05 pm
Depression
She asked me
What is it like?
I replied
You know
Like when you cant swim and you start to drown
So you're drowning right?
But its like everyone else around you can breathe
They seem to be floating on their back with ease
Everyone else has their head above water
Keeping afloat
And even some of the fortunate ones
They have their own boat
Not even touching the wat...
Tuesday 28th December 2021 3:54 pm
Also by Mama Lola:
Self Love | Forgiveness | My Dear Beloved | You deserve it all |How A Heart Breaks
i.m. Martin Cooke (1955-2021)
‘Behold the fowls of the air’
Matthew 6:26
This is the way it happens: a voice on the phone
explaining that one we took for granted
is no longer there, that junk food
and countless pints that wrecked
your balance and strained your heart
became in the end too much –
even at your shuffling pace.
Refusing to put a penny a...
Tuesday 28th December 2021 12:46 pm
Four Haikus outside at Christmas in Yorkshire
Holding arms open
the snow tickles your shoulders
in a cold silence.
*
putting on your gloves
you wish you had your hat on
stepping in the snow.
*
Whispering winter
the snow turns the station white
shunning the moon’s scorn.
*
Opening the door
boat was frozen in the lake
freezing getting home.
Monday 27th December 2021 10:31 pm
Also by Andy N:
Christmas Card Poem (2021) |Mutation (2021)
It was running round the House of Commons
With no mask
Handing out PPE contracts to their mates
For a laugh
As the population was falling into graves
They gave out party invites
Drunk on festive cheer.
Tears streaming down the cheeks of relatives
Who couldn’t see them go
Ho Ho Ho
The lies multiplied, given a boost
N...
Monday 27th December 2021 1:14 pm
Also by David R Mellor:
Wayward | Not Today… |6 Words of Christmas
T'is a season to be jolly
Dont need a reason to be holy
Greatful for my shortcomings
I know greater things are coming
All glory to the holy one
As we celebrate him as a family
Monday 27th December 2021 10:04 am
Wolf
Your spark became a flame
Your touch was electric
This heart found a beat
A heart imprisoned in the dark
A lost ancient rhythm
So familiar but forgotten
Eternal
The sound of time
The spine unfolds
The hair stands on the back of his neck
And he howls to the heavens
His curse is freedom
Destined to roam alone
Lethal, restless, unkillable
The world is bleeding him
Only to lick his woun...
Monday 27th December 2021 1:22 am
Also by Jim:
I |Surface value
We become lost within ourselves
Permanently fixated on our reflection upon the water
The image casted out constitutes one’s ego
Look through yourself
Dive into your actions and reasoning
Continually finding ways to stay grounded
Anchor yourself
As there is infinite things to learn below one’s surface
Sunday 26th December 2021 4:26 pm
Also by Cody Roach:
My Marigold | Blindsided |A fitting reply !
It was Boxing Day and Jenny was passing her local M&S,
She was going to a New Years Eve party and needed a new dress.
She saw a dress in the window which caught her eye,
"Please can I try on that dress in the window?" to an assistant she did cry.
The assistant replied,"For you to try on that dress in the window I would deplore !
You'll have to try it on in the fitting room like ever...
Sunday 26th December 2021 8:17 am
Also by hugh:
An inhaler error | Love is intoxicating | A haunting ruined credit rating !!! | Act now Boris after Christmas will be too late !! | Life at the morgue | A despicable crime on a lady in her 80's, robbed in her own home in Accrington yesterday | Omicron,new symptoms.A Hugh warning | A meal deal by Boris for his cabinet | "Please be kind !" | The Salvation Army,the light in the window that says somebody cares | Fred Faithful's dilemma | Strictly Come Dancing | Wokingham council draw the lines. Traffic wardens issue the fines !! | Warning !!! |Absence
Love isn't a burden
until it is gone
A failure of stone
I thought was forever
Saturday 25th December 2021 4:34 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
Sway | Owl Said | Rose | Letter To St. Nick |To Swami Girijatmananda
You'd embroidered the Inferno
sewn with the thread
of supple beauty,
endowed Ganguria
with philosophical
profundity and great altitude
of enlightenment.
You'd reconciled
an old skirmish
between disdain
and phobia.
O God, you made
Ganguria an ultimate abode
decked with platonic ideal
of love and mosaic complexion.
Saturday 25th December 2021 1:07 pm
So she let the rain set in
So she let the rain set in
Alas
When we had nearly given in
Mother nature
Decided she could absolve us from our sins…
So she let the rain set in
Her eyes did not water lightly
Instead— she wept a river
She gave us more than we deserved
More than what we thought—she could deliver
Everlasting daisies and orchids emerged
In abundance— on the once bone-d...
Saturday 25th December 2021 5:16 am
Also by Rasa Kabaila:
Fire |Rainbow
Sometimes I imagine being a rainbow,
Shooting off into the sky and coloring in every perception anew,
Just to find my way back into myself.
Saturday 25th December 2021 3:01 am
Also by M3RK:
Oblivion | pink | hey there |Believe it right now as in the future you ought to
Jesus' dad through a flying sourcer
Saturday 25th December 2021 12:05 am
Also by Jed:
Shabby Corrode | Don't Get Uppity Get A Cuppa Tea | Unhappy |Happy Christmas Day Mum
High above the sky and all its birds.
Hello Mum, please read these words.
With every Christmas bell I hear peal.
An ache in my heart, I begin to feel.
This year I don't care for Winter snow.
It's early days Mum, that much I know.
With God's help, it'll get better in time.
I will look for a Robin, a heavenly sign.
In such God sent things, I truly believe.
Maybe I'll see one tod...
Friday 24th December 2021 2:08 pm
Also by Mike Bartram:
The Cloud | 'Can I Come With You' |Christmas Delight
Todays the day for a great big celebration
A time to warmly welcome family and friends
The table is laid in all its seasonal splendour
I hope this glorious day will never end
It's Christms time and I am feeling oh so fine
Sitting in front of a blazing fire all aglow
Under the mistletoe with a glass of mulled wine
My yuletide heart is bursting don't you know
I'm so delighted and I want ...
Friday 24th December 2021 1:45 pm
Let me love tomorrow
if by chance I’m here tomorrow
remind me to be kind
remind me to listen
when the birds sing
and raindrops knock against the ground
remind me to see
as the clouds
float in the sky
and flowers
as they smile to the sun
remind me to love
when love is nothing but a mirage
in a world where love has died
remind me to be me
to listen
to see
to...
Friday 24th December 2021 11:01 am
Also by Ziba Mahdavi:
May you find peace | Pandemic, May 2021 | grotesque men |No Note Nor Nowt
No note nor nowt
‘E come ‘ome
She were gone
And she’d tekken ‘er coat
What the hell’s
Goin’ on
There were no note nor nowt
There were no note nor nowt
No note nor nowt
‘E come ‘ome she were gone
Leaving no note nor nowt
Up the stairs
She weren’t there
And her wardrobe was bare
Not a stitch left to wear
Not a jumper or owt
Not a thon...
Friday 24th December 2021 10:52 am
The Reality of Partner Dependency
He just keeps pushing your buttons
He was delusional to have thought that “reset” would fix everything and erase the past
He thought that all I needed was a “reboot” since we’re all a little broken and out of sort
But in reality, I wasn’t able to power on anymore
He used to be my shoulder to cry on
My safety blanket
But then I dreaded waking up next to him
He used to wipe my...
Thursday 23rd December 2021 8:44 am
Also by Cassandra Louise:
Just Breathe | If Theft Wasn't A Crime | Your Validity Is Past Due | Love & Hate | Psychological Cleanse | Thought Provoking Toronto | A Writer's Will | Heartbreak Guarantee | Rebirth | What Now? |What is inspiration meant to me?
Inspiration is within in ourself
Which we know: is the energy to move on
During when we feel uninspired
Wednesday 22nd December 2021 10:29 pm
Here I Come
Here I come
Bringing laughter and fun
To steal some hearts
With love’s fiery darts
Putting on a show
Cheering those feeling low
Throwing flowers in the air
Pieces of me to share
Life is so loveable
Love is not saleable
My heart is available
For you all at the table
A new year is approaching
With challenges and goals hoping
It will bring more success and fa...
Tuesday 21st December 2021 10:57 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Take It Easy |Otter
Mini lily pads make way for his playful swim
He looks both ways then dips under again
Tan and green reeds sway
The way fans watch a foul-shot play
Tiny bubbles hint at his webbed-feet wake
Pulling fast through the placid lake
His guard hairs soaked but sealed and sleek
Keeping him warm even in winter’s peak
He surfaces again with a swish
Thri...
Tuesday 21st December 2021 8:16 pm
Also by Candice Reineke:
Peppermint | Brewing | Here We Are |Rise Up
Rise Up
She laid on the floor begging for no more
Then his eyes filled with darkness and his fist pounded more.
She had been there before, but couldn’t walk out the door
Now here she is begging, just like before.
He promised her the best, but he’s just like the rest
Now here she is begging, hurting in distress.
She prays for better days, but it is all a haze
Now here ...
Tuesday 21st December 2021 4:14 pm
A Christmas Wish
A Christmas Wish
I wish I could go back for just a day
I wish there was a magic way
To twenty years or so ago.
To christmas past as white as snow.
To little kids in soft pyjamas,
Christmas specials of telly dramas.
Excitement sizzles in the air,
Gifts from loved ones soon to share.
Special baubles cover the tree,
Children waiting full of glee.
Santa’s m...
Tuesday 21st December 2021 3:08 pm
He's the one
So, there I was minding my own business keeping bar
Cleaning glasses and looking no where
But everywhere if you get my drift
The place is heaving
And in he walks like he has been a week in the saddle
But all dressed to the nines in fancy rags
The best money can buy
From head to toe
He comes up to me and says he has travelled far
With his two friends outside
The camel...
Tuesday 21st December 2021 10:01 am
Also by Martin Elder:
The easy air |Welcome New Year-2022
We may cheer or may not cheer
We may share or may not share
We may fear or may not fear
But we have to welcome
And gladly say, “Welcome My Dear”.
As we know, “Time and Tide waits for none”
December will leave and gone
And say bid “Goodbye” to everyone
Including me and you
It will never be with anyone.
We can’t have a break or ch...
Tuesday 21st December 2021 7:36 am
Also by ajay kumar sahoo:
Policy and Politics | (untitled) | A Blow in the Blue | (untitled) | PAST |"Musing"
Now, through the fog of the mind's eye
I see monoliths and mountain crypts
appear and disappear in a Stygian sky;
ghosts of song and dream, tales of past
thread my sorrow; death-pale, yet hopeful
somehow..
Tuesday 21st December 2021 6:28 am
Also by psylentskog:
"The Old Raven" |THE BUS TERMINAL
The Bus terminal is overcrowded,
but I feel alone
The noise coming from old buses
it is multiplied by people chatting,
And silenced by the crunch of my ruffles.
I am sitting on the cold bench,
Smelling the black smoke:
Intoxicating for ones
And sweet-smelling for me,
For me, it is the smell of freedom
Freedom along with elastic chains,
but freedom, after all.
...Monday 20th December 2021 5:57 pm
Morning Sip
Beep, beep, beep
The alarm goes
Creaakkkkkk
The bed goes
Pop, snap, crack
The person goes
Drip, drip, drop
The coffee goes
Sip, breath in, ahhh
The person goes
This is the
Morning Sip
Monday 20th December 2021 5:06 pm
Also by Jason Phillips:
The Rain | Been a While |Every kiss
Every kiss …
Every day
We would write
My love and I
Often
Many times a day
And every letter
Every message
Ended
With multiple kisses
XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
And I said to my love
Every X is an IOU
That must be repaid
With interest due
And, I am pleased to say
We repay the debt
Every hour
Of every day
And never has there been a debt
I’ve be...
Monday 20th December 2021 3:20 pm
ADVENT
ADVENT
Purification
World of all souls mistletoe rose
Christmas tree healing
Joyful emotions
For giving the heart is key
To the wealth of health
Colds can be deadly
If we lack immunity
We are all fragile
Viruses present
Unwanted gifts at Christmas
To all believers
And of none but we
Shall remember those who died
In hospital wards
Last gasp for the world
Can our patient...
Monday 20th December 2021 12:53 pm
Also by 74 19:
DARK SKY | PEACE TO THE WORLD |Dead Bird Crawling
words left unspoken must
turn to song
like a dead bird
learning to crawl
becomes the ants that eat it
pieces carried off like loot
from the shop of God
laid at the fat queen’s foot
those who snap your brain, nip your heels
those who have never seen these hills
those atomic archons will
die under the weight
of their own making
casually flinging ...
Sunday 19th December 2021 2:43 pm
BUT WHAT IF SHE DID?
A boy came
too irresistable to walk away
no wonder she fell
regret already in her hands.
And it was a fall worthy of others to look around
no shame, just mighty want
and he walked away
he tried
but he was her ray
how could she let him go his way?
And there were others
oh, there were others
girls standing lines to let him
break a piece of their prid...
Saturday 18th December 2021 6:15 pm
Also by nessixa:
SHE WENT THERE |Christmas rock’s but once a year!
Champagne corks that squeak and pop
Santa Baby and Jingle Bell rock
Boom out through the karaoke machine
The biggest party ever seen
Seasons greetings bringing cheer
Christmas rocks but once a year
Alpine scenes with trees and snow
Holly berries, robins, mistletoe
Dominate all the cards we send
To all our loved ones and our friends
Good will messages bringing che...
Saturday 18th December 2021 2:54 pm
Also by Rick Varden:
Fairies, Elves, and Goblins |A Normal Christmas
“For all of the people like me that are hoping and planning for a normal Christmas, I think that’s where we’ll be, if we just keep playing our part.” - Sajid Javid, 25 October 2021
All we want is a normal Christmas,
not like it was last year.
One where we won’t have to choose
between the people we love to see.
Won’t have to save a place at the table
for a logged-in laptop screen,
and may...
Saturday 18th December 2021 1:55 pm
Little Rabbit
Despite time moving quickly around it, the little bunny rabbit goes slow.
All the other little rabbits hop in time but this one falls behind.
No one knows it's there, no one really cares.
Feet so small they barely make a sound.
Inferior to the rest.
Although the sun lights the way, the finish line is still far away...
but the little rabbit carries on.
Desperate to get to ...
Saturday 18th December 2021 2:40 am
reviews
as a newbie to Write out loud can anyone tell me how to go about soliciting a review of work...?
Friday 17th December 2021 9:00 pm
the poor boy that had no Christmas
the poor boy that had no Christmas
a young boy lived in the country
looked forward to Christmas
a special time when a tree was cut
and strings of popcorn were hung
the family had little money
but the boy always received
at least a present or two
from Santa Clause when he
and his reindeers flew by on
Christmas Eve
the young boy’s best fr...
Friday 17th December 2021 8:02 pm
Also by Clyde McCulley:
the tattered old man on Christmas Eve | waiting for the first snowflakes | things one can't forget | summer of '42 (deja vu almost) | a walk at robert frosts old farm |Winter Poem -- a limited edition broadside
Friday 17th December 2021 1:53 pm
Where am I?
what do you mean transform?
Rejuvinate? Vitality of emotional well being?
Is it true?
Yes.
and more.
I guess you're wondering where ive been,
i Definetly wont tell you
and i sure as fuck wont let you in.
ive awoken
from the spell you cased upon me
of lies, of torment
such ungracegul deads.
But now i confess
my actual Voice,
Which in this case,
is NO...
Friday 17th December 2021 1:59 am
Time Helps
I have never doubted my fathers love for me
While
I have always doubted my own love for him
Thursday 16th December 2021 7:15 pm
Before
A still, clear pool like unmarred ice
A two dimensional window into fathomless depths
Time not yet begun it’s relentless wheel, stasis offered to your awestruck eyes
Dare you toss a stone to shatter the time before?
The innocent beginning of all, cast into the yawning void, the birth of a universe held in ambivalent grasp
Dare you not toss a stone to shatter this eternal before?
Causali...
Thursday 16th December 2021 6:30 pm
Also by john A Giordano:
Congress of Mind | Lake Placid | Frayed blanket end |Ghost
12/14/21
There is a difference between alone and lonely.
I know how to be alone. I am comfortable with being alone.
But I am lonely.
I am invisible and I feel as if I would be knocked over if I didn't move to the side in a crowd of people
And in turn my face is hard and my body language is guarded.
Because I feel unseen in everyone else's scene.
I feel like a ghost that my s...
Thursday 16th December 2021 12:21 pm
Also by VHH:
I can't remember |Have a Try
Hi I am Mary and my cat is Bill
who’s green and fat but never ill
he loves to talk and can’t sit still
and often colors to get his fill
drawing pink penguins and orange
dolphins of each both had a million
cousins I said
“who could imagine that…such a funny cat!”
“but it’s easy,” Bill replied without fear
“all you need is hold what’s dear”
so don’t be shy do have a t...
Wednesday 15th December 2021 7:30 pm
Also by Tara Suri:
Completely New | Clever Tara | Blue Cow Delight | Big Package For Little Dink | 100 Feet Tall | Best Friends | A Good Book |Me Vs ME. A Dual Reality
every day is another to learn
and indulge in whats present
i figure there is so much that is pleasant
sometimes i have to just sit back and take it all in
disconnect
in order to reconnect
this place is quite lovely
especially, as i realize im starting to love me
so much thats happening
i can get lost in both of my worlds
i l...
Wednesday 15th December 2021 7:29 pm
Also by Prince Ali:
You | Through The Pen I Grieve | Just Another Day in the Coffee Shop |You for others
To see with eyes and listen with ears
is a blessing from the greatest engineer.
but those needn't an eyes to see and ears to hear
are even blessed—for they know what's true and what's near.
To feel with the heart and be touched by the words
sends swarm of butterflies, a flock, or even a herd.
that of which feels greater than being blessed
by limbs to just sit and hands that allow viole...
Wednesday 15th December 2021 12:32 pm
Also by Arjaf M. (2):
So , is she? |you felt, I changed
i didn't care for hugs, until you were giving them.
i didn't care for stars, until i saw the way you gazed up at the night sky.
i didn't care for the sunlight until you described the way it felt on your skin.
i didn't care for myself until i saw the way you see me.
Tuesday 14th December 2021 9:29 pm
Also by bw:
crying is for kids |Not So Stupid, After All
I watched it waddling through the woods,
A feathered freak, a frump,
As proud as in the picture books,
All pigeon-like and plump.
Aghast at such a sight I gasped,
"I thought you were extinct."
"Precisely as we planned, old boy,"
The dodo said and winked.
Tuesday 14th December 2021 4:13 am
Next Up on Heartbreak FM
Since when was every song
on the radio about broken hearts.
Have I been singing to the beat
of our hearts entwined for too long
to notice the world burning at our feet.
I keep finding scraps of you
in those melancholic melodies,
and as love songs turn to haunting screams,
I sink deeper into despair,
clutching the once comforting words
of a wedding song
I guess I’ll never be able to p...
Tuesday 14th December 2021 3:00 am
some things are scary (but maybe not)
some things are scary
like a shadow behind you at night while you are walking home
or a strong noise in the kitchen when you are home alone
or losing your mom at the store when you were little
and the fear is a strong feeling
it freezes you
it makes anxiety come
and everything seems blurred
and it's hard to breath
and your heart is beating loud
and you can't hear an...
Monday 13th December 2021 1:12 am
Also by mona:
The warrior who no longer fights |December 2021 Collage Poem: Chariot of Obscurity
The exact translation for the exact word for snow.
The winter night was the start of a new fake world,
with the death of truth and lost poets caught in the deep wild minds of hope.
How can butterflies and mirrors and snow be possible while hearts are breaking?
I thought of howl and the shadow of gunman sinister betrayal.
It was a dusky farewell
A monarch butterfly landed on Boris...
Saturday 11th December 2021 11:18 am
Wander
I've sat among the stars
In the vacuum of space
Breathing stardust into the cosmos
Creating entire galaxies
With like-minded creators
Whispered sweet words
Through the void
And had them echo back
With no hope of reaching you
I drift among the floating rocks
And imagine myself
Having not existed
And see just how nothing changes
I've made no impact
...Saturday 11th December 2021 10:30 am
Also by Eric Berard:
One |what i call home
I’ve lived around the world.
In fact I moved when I was 18,
I left my home and found another,
But was that home?
Layered bricks and walls with posters,
soft warm bed and candles lit by it
to make it
home-y,
But was that home?
‘a house is not a home’
yet I still feel like I really miss
my house, where my mom and my cat
are waiting patien...
Thursday 9th December 2021 1:07 pm
Holly Bird
Thursday 9th December 2021 9:31 am
WRITE OR WRONG
All the social media companies in the world
Unfortunately had to react
They handed all the people a pen and a paper
And decided hey, you can't write that
Wednesday 8th December 2021 8:48 pm
Warm heart
You give money to homeless,
your soul is moved by sad and poor,
waiting for a bit of kindness
you peek through the cracks of sore,
that unkind words have caused before.
Language you use is warm and respectful,
never rude and never untrue.
Like you would realize each carries a burden,
that becomes lighter when talking to you.
Your gentle hands slip through my body,
...Tuesday 7th December 2021 11:10 pm
The War
Momentary peace is a thing,
Lifetime of peace who has ever gotten?
And there exist people who haven't witnessed a single spring,
The fruits they've reaped off life are all rotten.
Time lingers on, it takes small sluggish steps,
While the war seems to last for an eternity.
And though the mind's tired and body's started to sweat,
There seems no concrete vision, no certainty.
Innumerable ...
Tuesday 7th December 2021 6:04 pm
Also by Mahira:
A tryst with self |United We Stand & Together We Thrive
[ ] Listen To Wisdom & Become Wise
[ ] Knowledge Is Power Only A Fool Can Despise
[ ] We Were Once Driven, But Now We Drive
[ ] Men & Women We Are, Now We Provide
[ ] Neutrality We Should Choose, Not Blindly Picking Sides.
[ ] Prayers, Heads High, Eyes To The Sky
[ ] Oh Beautiful Universe Be Our Guide
[ ] Thy Say Time Is Forever Now It's Our Time!
[ ...
Tuesday 7th December 2021 4:30 pm
SHADES OF SMYRNA
SHADES OF SMYRNA
Athens
Past refugees
haunt the streets of this city.
Pavestones cover forgotten lives,
each district conceals
a trail of hardship and loss.
Their dreams are long eclipsed
but surface when the moon comes up
invoked by timeless music
from bouzoukis
as people dance in clubs
or couples chat
in sleepy kebab shops
over barrelled wine
...Tuesday 7th December 2021 3:06 pm
I think of you constantly
I think of you constantly
The sound of your laughter comforts me
As I envision you smiling from ear to ear
I open myself as if you're suddenly near
The thought of you leaves me in tears
When I open my eyes and I see you there, not here
What I would do to have you holding me, loving me, but all I know is you leaving me
I will be who you want me to be, do what you want me to do
...Tuesday 7th December 2021 11:00 am
Whispers from Pandemonium or Once In a Blue Midnight
There were whispers that the reaper king Mortimer once lost his human form, his body, his shell. Among the reapers, rumors changed it to his soul being stolen.
This is what really happened,
Blake Alexander bowed to his audience from his stage so did his partner in his magic act Max Starfire. They dematerialized and rematerialized in their dressing room backstage.
"Max you never do things righ...
Tuesday 7th December 2021 8:42 am
Also by Rachel Lawson:
The People From The Center of the Earth | The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls | Audio books made easy | Author advise (updated version of all in one page from my website how to publish free book) | Requiem | Sky Diamonds | The Mystery of Night | Ghost Light | The Reign of Rain | Death's Token | The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. | Bad Omens or the insane unfortunate ravings of a mad chicken | Dark side of the moon | Rogue of Honor or The Assasin | The Haunting of the Necromancer | A Moon Shadow Nocturne | The Shadow of the Wind | Nocturne or the music of the night : Extended | Stand and Deliver : In the Moonlight | Vivienne and the Reaper: The Mortal Coil |Poetry Up In Lights at the de Young
Never thought I would ever see my poetry up in lights, let alone on the prestigious Deyoung Art Gallery in San Francisco, USA. 'Mihalakis' is one of the first poems I wrote in the late 1980's. Big thanks to Illuminate Reggae Sundays and my long time bredren Steffen Franz for making this happen....This is one of those moments in life....see the video here..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0MlLe7ZRt...
Tuesday 7th December 2021 6:54 am
Starshine (V.2)
The stars shine brighter than the books say they’re supposed to
And the tall grass ain’t as green as the other side had proposed
I was too drunk to see the starshine
In the daytime I saw their glimmer spark and melt into some bronze eyes
Two rings of lulled dreamscapes I near missed when I fell into a low tide
I writ in song so that the stanzas, you can’t read them, but you li...
Tuesday 7th December 2021 4:41 am
its all in my head
They say the pen is mightier then the sword
Then why am I writing about feeling cut up
Mamma am so wounded
I can’t help it
Oh, and for you Kate don’t act like your any different
Love is love, whatever that is am not sure
Am just an sober addicted who’s mind is still wet
And know that the mistrust from a misunderstanding has turn to paranoia
Let the games begin the d...
Monday 6th December 2021 10:53 pm
Also by Keith Byrne:
get me out |Toxic drink
looking down my feet
regrets entangling me like wines
struggling hard
chocolate makes me vomit
sugar cubes into my glass
sipping alcohol with hidden thorns in it
drooling blood but can't manage to stop
I should sit
glance up for a seconde
realizing i broke my own reality
is this some kind of guilt
but most importantly
May I order another drink ?
Sunday 5th December 2021 10:04 pm
Also by Natchy:
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