Shadow...
Without you I cannot imagine myself;
I lived an unreal past
that was part of the soul
I thought loved me
I sailed on the river of your lies,
of everything that you said you felt
I made up a mirage of tender caresses
where you were the delight of all my senses
Among thorns of silence I landed;
tears blinded me and without pause
and swiftly my way became ...
Saturday 28th February 2015 3:30 pm
Also by Noris Roberts:
God has come to love me this morning |A-L-O-N-E
A-L-O-N-E
Aloofed characters we'll see
Lost in the translation to hopeless dreams
Observations of selfish greed
Never to be complete
Ending life on "E".
L-O-N-E
Longing to find "a" single character to stitch to incomplete seams
Oscillatin...
Saturday 28th February 2015 4:56 am
What goes around
I wonder,
how surprised would you be
to find out
that I actually delight
at the deviousness
in your false words to me
the misconception
of your perception
that I am thought of
as a fool
poorly schooled
in the art of manipulation.
Since unbeknown to you
I am in reality
the unloved victor
whose lips can also deceive
in the same fashion.
Bu...
Friday 27th February 2015 8:35 pm
WALK LIKE A MAN.
I do; my dad.
There's no doubt that I'm his lad.
His left knee and mine are weak.
Phone us up and let us speak
to hear how similar we are;
my brush bristles with his tar.
My sweat smells the same as his;
a tang of graft and fear that is
both helical and hand-me-down,
but I'm not fit to wear the crown:
he took stock at twenty-three,
I'm fifty; no one walks like me.
Friday 27th February 2015 10:24 am
Pringles' Bladder
Friday 27th February 2015 9:48 am
Also by Chris Briggs:
Pissed 'n' Broke | A Bit More Choke And The Car Would Have Started |The Moon I've Felt (02/27/2015)
called from the depths of a rock named home
brought, knee height to rest in rapture
what I thought was the world in my hands
a meagre, fleeting, single-framed capture
this is what it had meant to be lost in your eyes
glazed over with stupid love, white hot without reason
an oscillating sum of parts, clumsy and lost
grasping, huffing helium, heads hung in treason
man-made and pin-stripe...
Friday 27th February 2015 8:56 am
Also by Zach Dafoe:
Keanu Reeves 1252 (02/27/2015) | he means well (02/21/2015) | Crucifix (2/10/2015) | Wreckless Calendar (02/08/2015) | Tin Heart II (02/05/2015) | Second Thought | Long Knives (02/02/2015) |I Remember
Moss lifted from a lake will bleed water upon my feet,
Saved from drowning,
Crying to drown again.
Bittersweet, Bittersweet, Bittersweet the memory.
Hollowed out scars of abandonment,
Face their foe of remembrance,
Struggling in battle.
Stalemate, Stalemate.
Bequeathed pain of loss shouts down recollection,
Reminiscence fights to fill void.
To remember is hurt,
To remember is to learn.
Thursday 26th February 2015 9:54 pm
Also by Jacqueline Phillips:
The Cliff | FEAR | Blind Love | Sunday Evening & Monday Morning | MODERN WOMAN | Whit’th In’t Winter | Red Nose Politics | As Yet Untitled |A HUG
All it ever took was a hug . A plain and simple action , yes a hug . It dosent take too much , a plain and simple touch . To make you feel your wanted and your loved . A hug can set your troubles free , can make you feel no pain . Can make you feel your not alone , and your confidence you will regain .
Thursday 26th February 2015 6:30 pm
Also by Wendy Higson:
ITS FREE | YOUR PAST | DONE | PLACES | HAVE A NATTER | THE JOKES ON HIM | REAL LOVE | A WOMAN SCORNED | FEELINGS | GOOD NEIGHBOURS | BIRDS FLYING HIGH | HEALTH CENTRE | MUMS | ABUSERS | LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN | DONT BE FOOLED | TRUST | TAX AVOIDANCE | PACHENCE | MAKE A STAND | THE BIG C | BREAST CANCER | FANATICS | A CLEVER BULLY | NEVER TRUST A BULLY | OUR CHILDREN | TIME | TROUBLES SHARED | CHILD MINDER | HAPPINESS | MY MUM EDITH |One Night Of Romance
A young man with grace, charm and handsome good looks,
he had a way with the ladies like the chap in the 50 shades books,
cheeky and witty with a sense of humour so dry,
catching a glance of a beautiful woman's sexy smokey eyes,
in a moment he was stood there chatting right by her side,
his intention to court her he did not even think to hide.
The question he asked and so they took to the ...
Thursday 26th February 2015 5:46 pm
Also by Tj Steele:
A Life In Recovery |Missing a Friend
O how I miss you, old friend -
Like the leaf misses its branch,
Like the sand misses the sea,
Like the sky misses the rainbow,
Like sadness misses salt tears.
When I see you in fleeting moments -
I am a tree finding its roots,
I am a cloud finding its storm,
I am a drop finding its ocean,
I am a smile finding its bliss.
And when I leave you all over again -
A flowe...
Thursday 26th February 2015 4:46 pm
Musings
My hands are on the keyboard
tapping as I write this – I haven’t
planned to write anything in particular
but I like the sound of the keys. It
reminds me of being a child when
I always liked buttons and would pester
my mum to let me press the ones at
the cash machine so they would make
that sound - boop boop boop. Anything
that made a noise was good to me –
like at the...
Thursday 26th February 2015 2:00 pm
....that ever I'll get back.
I’ve got a little nest egg that I’ve built up over time
I’ve earned it all “by hand and brain” and none of it through crime;
And though I’ve been a cautious chap I thought I’d have a bash
At making an investment with my little bit of cash.
I’m looking for a prospect which is very poorly run
And one where all my friends will chorus, “Johnboy, you’ve been done!”;
An outfit whe...
Wednesday 25th February 2015 10:32 pm
Also by John Coopey:
TALKIN' DAVE AND GEORGE BLUES | SUNNY AFTERNOON | THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN |Unmarked By Their Passing
I tell you there’s no ending, no straightening the straights,
and the twists and turns of life will remain unending.
Where do those paths go, via many trees bowed by breeze,
and thorny bushes with fresh and old blood specks to show.
Some are freeted by time, just lumbering and slumbering,
as stuttering takes them on to old, past their posturing prime.
Bored by ster...
Wednesday 25th February 2015 4:23 pm
Also by Dave Dunn:
Don't You Dare | Last Hope Of Redemption | Yes Men | By The Edge Of Water | Peace Is Sanity | Rage On The Loose |DO YOU REMEMBER MY ENGLAND? - a re-post
Do you remember my England?
When people said "How do you do?"
And most of them were folk you knew,
And everybody joined a queue...
I do.
Do you remember my England?
When people seemed to care and share
And it was just not done to stare,
And barbers used to cut your hair...
I do.
Do you remember my England?
When "addict" meant a pinball fan
And workmen ...
Wednesday 25th February 2015 3:42 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
TAXING MATTERS! | HOSTAGES TO CHARITY |Children Rhyme(for feedbacks )
Litreature is an effortles way of teaching language.When I get enough money,illustrating them,I want to publish the following poems.I need your enriching feedbacks on the content and style.
A king bornOnce up on a time
There was an old king
Who used to worry
About one thing
'Surely one day
I will pass away!'
As many me advise
Among my sons
The wise
A he...
Wednesday 25th February 2015 3:11 pm
Also by Alem Hailu G/Kristos:
Soaring With Wings of Success | Duel of hearts |The Thick and Crickets
A short story—
________________________________
The Thick and Crickets
Mary swayed only gently, poised as her head sunk into the firm chest next to her. The
breeze took the swinging porch bench just enough to hear the warped and aged wood creak and bellow beneath dried rain water and old paint. When the sway was too little, Joe would stick his feet out in front of him, t...
Wednesday 25th February 2015 3:18 am
Also by Becka Brush:
Untitled | Crazy Brown | To Her | Hard |Emotionally unstable
Emotionally unstable?
Life becomes a series of two periods.
One where you feel good and life is great,
and one where every day is a bumpy ride on an emotional rollercoaster.
When on the verge of tears, it’s always a close call holding them back, not letting them fall.
I discovered that when on the verge of tears,
I hold my breath in an attempt to wait it out.
Stupidly trying ...
Wednesday 25th February 2015 2:35 am
The Land of Mars Bars is Melting...
Dreamers calculating,
Blood coagulating,
Coconut milk rivers ,
The opium forest quivers,
Naked leprechauns shiver,
Quasi - artificial flowers,
& Highlighter showers
The Martian spontaneously combusts,
The Stapler Snake spontaneously rusts
The neon mushroom grottos,
Defile the honest man’s mottos,
The sky is a self- destructing sculpture,
This life is a self-destructing culture
C...
Wednesday 25th February 2015 2:23 am
The Country's Shame
They had never given anything to anyone,
They had never built or created anything,
They were only stealing each divine day,
Forgetting to ask the forgiveness or pray.
Belaboring each other they shame the nation.
They can only vote and discuss with passion,
Not lifting their gorged asses from chairs,
The antisocial, immoral laws of aggression,
Ignoring people’s groans, tears...
Tuesday 24th February 2015 8:26 pm
Also by Larisa Rzhepishevska:
The Country's Shame |Jpys of Childhood
I crawl along, no fear, no worries.
I drool, I spit, no stress.
The world it waits, watches,
while I discover.
And now I walk, tentative.
Each step bringing me closer
to the fate that awaits.
Tuesday 24th February 2015 7:47 pm
PAUSE
Why do we worry so much about tomorrow;
When we can do so much today.
Why do we cry for those who are leaving;
Forgetting the ones who stay.
Why do we long for that which we cannot have;
Without appreciating what we already possess.
We live life in a rush and often miss out so much,
We dwell on dreams and mistakes;
And live the present in a haze.
Take a pause and feel th...
Tuesday 24th February 2015 7:30 pm
In School
In school I was foolish—graded and grated.
I’d spend my time passing it.
I’d break bones for the cheap
Seats in gym class one day;
I’d breakfast at noon the next.
I’d wage war with witticisms and wisecracks.
I’d say “thank you” by way of thumbtack.
I beat blackboards till they were white
And they beat me till I was black-and-blue.
I was light in the wallet, heavy in the ...
Tuesday 24th February 2015 7:51 am
Also by James Roper:
Ghosts | A History of Manifest Destiny | The Kill | Looking Inward/Outward | Ice-Storm-Morning Sonnet | Winter Storm Stories |Contemplated Suicide
Contemplated Suicide
She speaks a beautiful soliloquy
And her voice melodically plays on my heart strings
All the while we both contemplated suicide
Along the ends of each other's love
She was mine and I, hers...
Tuesday 24th February 2015 5:45 am
Also by Smash Lee:
Words you've never heard | Jekyll, Hyde, Me |wish you were here
wish you were here .....
baby dont leave me
u r d happist part of ma sadest life...
even u own ma borin life
u r d cutest part of ma
tired life ...
even ua haterd can please me
u wer d cure of ma injury....
now left me back wid same pain
u wer d sweetness of sour life .
. y did u leave me in sorrow ..
if ma smile makes u sad
i swear ill neva smile
if ...
Tuesday 24th February 2015 3:24 am
Also by surakshith kumar:
let it go |Beautiful strands spun, woven by the deadly
A spider works tirelessly on an intracate weaving of delicate silver threads
Colecting tiny delicate dewdrops
Shining like diamonds littered with droplets in the sun
Hanging, strung in the queerest places
So beautiful, it seems there should be someone different crafting these inginious masterpeices
Tuesday 24th February 2015 2:10 am
Does The Light Cry?
Does The Light Cry?
Our biology,
Our human mechanism
For negotiating pain,
Wasn’t merely thrown
Slovenly into the mix,
Wasn’t just created without
Thought and understanding
Of the nature we become,
The nature we already are.
When a human becomes
Hurt, they cry,
They cry perhaps the saltwater
Of the seas we once belonged,
And n...
Monday 23rd February 2015 9:16 pm
Also by Noetic-fret!:
...............As Suns Set | This Vicious World | Notorious (This Kingdom In Denial) |Don't lose your head
I was thinking about
being bad
I was thinking about
not fitting
I was thinking about
who I am
But none of this
Is about anger
Although maybe
I do have a rage
with the world
And if I'm
none of these things
Am I nothing
I think maybe
I see it as a game
As not real
But I don't really see it
As winning or losing
And I don't really like
People very much
Or this life
It doesn't m...
Monday 23rd February 2015 1:36 pm
Also by Twilbury Wist:
(untitled) | (untitled) | camp fire | spinning wheel | The returned | The magic frog | Roll up roll up | magicat | night crawlers |Breathing Liquor
Liquor, such a licentious name,
I hear it whispered on TV,
my hair stands on end.
I move the bottles out of sight,
to negate their seductiveness.
They cry to be held or treasured.
The weakness of wine glasses,
resonating when they are washed.
They are true to their purpose at least.
I pour a scant amount,
measuring with molecular like precision.
I swig it back with...
Monday 23rd February 2015 12:23 pm
Middle of The Night
In the middle of the night,
where the stars shine so bright,
the moon hangs low in the dark mass.
I sit alone in the shivery air,
out I stare at all the little lights,
dreaming of the future,
worrying of the present,
reminiscing of the past.
Tired as I am, I refuse to sleep,
for it's a beautiful night, the stars shine so bright.
Monday 23rd February 2015 8:15 am
Also by Brandon Hu:
Poetry Class | Flower In The City | Light Up The Night |Consume Me
You weigh in my mind
Like the feather that tipped the scale
Your presence lingers where you sat
And spoke
And lay
And laughed
You have consumed me
I lay here knowing
You once lay there
Knowing you lay sleeping
Far from me
Knowing soon is your waking hour
Though I have yet to sleep
As though to dream
Would be to miss my thought...
Monday 23rd February 2015 3:57 am
Also by Pixie:
My Mecca | A Memory is Worth a Thousand Picture | Quicksand | Caged Femininity | Shame Me | Memories to Be. | Harmony |YOU STOP TIME
YOU STOP TIME
Time heals
Time kneels
Too quick
Too fast
Too slowly
Over painful moments
Quicker…
At the moments
We want to last
It opens the day
And closes our eyes.
And I’m happy at
Every beat of our day
And the moments
Spent…
In your eyes
© David R Mellor 2015
Sunday 22nd February 2015 10:51 pm
Also by David R Mellor:
TWO DAUGHTERS | the world beats a drum of hope and despair | And you who know so much better | I’M FIGHTING WITH THE CLOCK | Die by the Sword |sleep
Aimlessly appreciating
Ruminating
Pontificating
Without artifice
Towards any feeling
Of malpractice or discontent
Endlessly trying
Forever tying myself in knots
Thoughts travel through my head
Without a start
Middle or an end
Continually contemplating
A cacophony of silence
Of elongated pregnant pauses
Unpopular and long forgotten
Washed up ca...
Sunday 22nd February 2015 10:45 pm
Also by Martin Elder:
Approval |Backwards mind
Reverse psychology that pro-tobacco, when recruiting black market take no risk, just ribbon the brand easiest on the tongue, menthol, Jordan, Trojan, say it makes you the hardest, reruns of a nigga in some swoops, a cancer in them streets with cancer in them lungs, that black on black, Benz, rims, tint, a nine to the skull if caught slippin', so irrelevant the reaction to the crime is "yeah that s...
Sunday 22nd February 2015 10:33 pm
Also by D. Williams:
SCUM |Location, Location, Location*
The muse can be found
In high places
Where through the back door
You can see the ground though the floor of the balcony
A precipice runs along to the front door
The muse can be found in remote places
Where and when you would never
Choose to go
Vertigo and other things heavy
Headed for the other side
Into the air
Falling like a Mary hail
Theres no bell at the front door
Up...
Sunday 22nd February 2015 5:38 pm
Also by cbyrne:
Look Again | Malaysia Airlines |Erotica
Call me an oppressor;
I slurp the shame like dick
sucked by the women I watch
especially when it stops being sexy
(flip to a poem about the trail of tears)
enough guilt in my ancestry
to melt any erection.
Turn ons:
Getting caught in the act.
I seize opportunities for guilt.
As a vegetarian, I am first to volunteer
at the chance to kill an animal.
As a white man, I rush off
to post-...
Sunday 22nd February 2015 4:00 pm
The Junk Shop
I was lost among the old junk,
in the farthest of corners, when
I heard a clock ticking away.
It had a rhythm of its own,
though the ticks were separate
it appeared to echo instead,
and when I watched the clock face,
the second hand would twitch a bit
before jumping to the next notch.
'Must be a pice of junk,' I thought,
then I looked down and checked my watch,
and it read the sam...
Sunday 22nd February 2015 3:38 pm
Also by wrestledwithjimmy:
you know | The Sailor Man Knows a Lady | The Winter Light | It is Too Much | Kindly Here | half asleep | Cold at the Pump |Ghost story II - Prologue
Sunday 22nd February 2015 1:57 pm
4 a.m.
Each prick of conscience
every mistake
present themselves to me
one by one
at 4 a.m.
When I should have stuck to my guns,
when I should have pulled out,
when I should have said something
and not been full of doubt.
Should I have written what I did
when online last night?
What kind of reply may it get?
And who will be in the right?
Turn over,
punc...
Sunday 22nd February 2015 12:42 pm
Also by Lynn Dye:
Oops |The Story of my Daydreams
Oh,
Daydreams,
They came back
But the fantasy was gone
They were alive only at night
Frightened of daylight
Moon captured them as the stars
If you saw the stars tonight
Then know
They were my dreams once
Now all I have is ashes
Not from smoked cigarettes or burned houses
But from my bones
What became broken
While my heart was trying to escape.
Friday 20th February 2015 9:49 pm
Also by Elisabeth:
Hidden truth | Something lost | Saying Goodbye |Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper
All seeing eyes
Guardian of the gate,
Sat atop
the stairway of skins.
Sewn together
with satyr hair.
Counting the days,
ticking them off
in a parchment book
with a pen on a string
twined with spider thread.
Sits in the sunlight
and watches the workers
to-ing and fro-ing
like ants on a hill
with their own little tasks,
while he has no legs,
just sits in a chair
wei...
Thursday 19th February 2015 9:30 pm
Also by Ian Whiteley:
Is It Warm In Here? | Mama... | Saint Valentine's Day Mascara |The Jackalope
His eyes run red
As his beating heart.
A thing of myths--
The antlers his art.
Long hind legs
In thicket he’ll hide,
Dignified and
Terrified.
Never to be seen
By any one or thing,
Each point a prize
For hunters to sling.
And that’s why the jack
Remains in the deck.
To lope is freedom,
But exposure is death.
Thursday 19th February 2015 4:41 am
Afterwards
Asleep,
So soon?
How quietly
You breathe.
How almost
Imperceptible
The gentle rising
Of your breasts
Outside
The trees
Are absolutely still.
And motionless
Wide continents of cloud
Have hidden the moon.
Somewhere
The murmur
Of a pebbly stream
Croons continuously
While, from afar,
Muffled along a lonely motorway,
The sound of a passing traveller
Purrs,
Then fades.
G...
Thursday 19th February 2015 12:16 am
Also by Harry O`N eill:
For my love on Valentine`s day | On the day the first Gulf War ended |Transference.(The improved version)
If only
I could put
the words
I want to hear
in your mouth
what wonderful things
you would say
to me
and how beautifully alive
the dream would be
Wednesday 18th February 2015 5:59 pm
Anthropology 200 makes me poetic
Wednesday 18th February 2015 3:14 am
I still
I still look for funny shaped clouds,
In the big blue sky
I still hold my hand out, in the rain,
Droplets dancing a merry downhill dance,
I still wave to strangers as I pass them by,
To never see them again
I still look up at the well lit 27th floor,
Wondering who lives there, if they're happy,
Wondering if they've eaten or made love,
Wondering if they're wondering about...
Wednesday 18th February 2015 3:12 am
Erstickenden
Atem
Offenem Mund,
Ich kann nicht.
Meine Brust ist schwer.
Erstickenden
(English Translation)
Breathe
Open mouthed,
I cannot.
My chest is heavy.
Suffocating
Wednesday 18th February 2015 2:29 am
Also by Eris:
Talk |The Abyss
The Abyss
Why would you jump into the dark swirling abyss?
Absolutely no proof
but you got swallowed into it
You could have turned away
but you got hypnotised
by the small glistening colours
of twisted jealousy & lies
A well of swirling black
With odd colours here and there
That is the temptation
That will call you there
Once the black engulf...
Tuesday 17th February 2015 6:23 pm
Also by Ivory:
The Black Fog |th3 H3LL 0f my m!nd
Running, pacing, fleeing from these thoughts..
staying out of the dark and just thinking alone.
struggling to find a way to even do this on my own..
i see the bad guy.. its just a stare down in my mirror..
a moment of silence and its like nothing was clearer.
theres no way in hell im walking out of this a winner,
So i guess ill be a sinner and just try to take the river..
i do...
Tuesday 17th February 2015 6:09 pm
Also by @d@m :
~the Day i Fell for You | (untitled) | (untitled) |Belong To You
When, whatever you want
I'm here for you, always near
In any circumstance.
Monday 16th February 2015 9:59 pm
Also by Maurice Greening:
My Heart |Pile of Hopeful Dreams
In the quiet corner
Where the rocks meet the water
Is a pile of hopeful dreams
Scattered between the leaves
The dirt
The crevices of the rock
Brought there by the ones
With broken dreams
With broken promises
With broken hearts
In the hope of being mended
Consoled
By the ones who know their pain
There’s something about the quiet corner
Where the rocks ...
Monday 16th February 2015 9:52 pm
Seen
She squints and glares, fixed on you
Eagle eyed, she wanders through.
The cries and spiels and sobs you say
Don't connect, are moved away.
Differing the false from fact
The eyes cant play part in the act.
It's them she stacks her frame around
Separating sight from sound.
She wiped a hole and delved down in
Stopped to turn at every sin.
Rooting as your soul projects
With every truth ...
Monday 16th February 2015 8:51 pm
Divine Mother
Our Beloved Divine Mother,
How she asks of us to feel safe enough to open our Hearts once again, it is through having it shattered time and time again that the light of our Spirit may enter into the deepest of wounds.
To illuminate the corners of our Soul where darkness has roamed.
It is through having our hearts shattered and cracked open that the chamber of her Wisdom and Knowledge may be...
Sunday 15th February 2015 5:21 pm
Also by Sara Isabelle Marie:
Winds of Spain | The dance of Creation | Tide of transformation |7 Miles Out open Mic
Saturday 14th February 2015 9:00 pm
Also by Stockport WoL:
February Collage Poem: Cages |When a Valkyrie enters your life
Sorry if this not good, I have not wrote in a long time.
The feeling of supernatural protection from the Gods, and this Valkyrie.
That enters your dreams, and talks to you like a friend.
You see her beautiful armor, and this glorious shield, and a shiny sword with runes carved on it,
Looks firece, but holds you like a mother.
Strokes your hair when you are worried, telling you eve...
Saturday 14th February 2015 8:34 pm
Promise Me
When my hands begin to tremble
You’ll place your hand in mine
When my eyes become hollow
That you’ll gaze into them
When I’m at a loss for words
You’ll kiss me so the silence
Can speak for the both of us.
Saturday 14th February 2015 7:18 pm
Beautiful Stranger
Beautiful Stranger
Train passenger
Uneventful boredom
Till opposite
Beautiful stranger.
Sparkling eyes
Youthful complexion
Kissable lips
Sunshine fiqure.
See through
Tight jumper
Smiling boobs
Guilty stare.
Ice breaker
Simple words
Fumble out
Hello there.
Fluttering lashes
Sexy signal
Body movement
Adjusting posture.
Sensual perfume
...Saturday 14th February 2015 2:32 pm
Attila the Stockbroker's autobiography 'Arguments Yard' - published September 2015
Radical-force-of-nature performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker celebrates the 35th anniversary of his first gig with the publication of his autobiography ‘Arguments Yard’ in September 2015 .
Launched into public consciousness by legendary Radio One DJ John Peel in 1982/83, he has spent 35 years touring the world as a self sustaining DIY one man cottage industry, performing well...
Saturday 14th February 2015 9:37 am
Reality
Heaven help me
If I believed in that sort of thing
But alas all
That seems real is death and glue and gin
Saturday 14th February 2015 2:28 am
I quite like raisins, except for the one that got stuck up my nose!
The prompt from our writing group was to write an ode to your favourite fruit, this is my attempt, and it's a true story too...
I quite like raisins
Except for the one that got stuck up my nose
The more I sniffed and snorted
The further up it rose
My mum couldn't ease it out
She just forced it up even higher
She took me to the neighbours
And tried to use some plie...
Friday 13th February 2015 4:32 pm
Also by Pauliegreg:
Did you ever really love me? | Brew Time | My aching heart | Postcard from the edge! | New Year, New Year Resolutions | What's going on inside my head |THE DAY BEFORE VALENTINE'S
THE DAY BEFORE VALENTINE'S
Is this ritual or adventure
See how quickly
The words are written
No longer anonymous
Is this a box to check
A form to fill
A contract to renew
An essential procedure
The mind indifferent
Even irritated but....
The heart restless
Insistent that this
Is not an option
Ink on cardboard
Flesh on flesh
One forever...
Friday 13th February 2015 3:06 pm
Also by David Subacchi:
NUMBER 72 |CHECKY TROUSERS
His name is Jeff. He’s a chef.
How can you tell? By his trousers of course.
When he puts on those checky trousers he’s no longer just Jeff,
But, Jeffry, like his Mam used to scream, making herself hoarse
At his idleness, lethargy, laziness, now all in the past
Since a chef he’s become, even though it’s self-classed.
Doesn’t wear one of them tall ‘ats though.
He tried on...
Friday 13th February 2015 3:02 pm
The Balance
The color through the trees,
Where is the guarantee
The only way for absolute
Might not be what your are hoping for
Might not be what you are living for
The instant that can last forever
The feeling that can last forever
It's a myth and it can take your soul
We sacrifice so much for feeling whole
What is today will not be tomorrow
We have forgotten the adventure
The surprise
It's what ...
Tuesday 10th February 2015 4:41 am
SELF
LOOK WITHIN YOUR INNER SELF,
AND YOU MIGHT FIND SOME MENTAL HEALTH.
YOU LIVE A LIFE THAT TRULY SUCKS,
YOU BRING UPON YOURSELF BAD LUCK.
IMMITATE LOW SELF ESTEEM,
TRY AGAIN WHEN YOU GET CLEAN.
THE TIME IS NOW SO DO IT RIGHT,
DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF AND FIGHT.
STUPID PUPPET - DANCE ABOUT,
SELF RITEOUS MAN - ABUSE AND SHOUT.
THE ONES YOU HATE ARE NOT TO BLA...
Tuesday 10th February 2015 2:07 am
Also by Mitch.C:
DEMENTIA |Silent Truth
Silent truth
And a thousand eyes smile for those who know what love is.
Such a smile could never be traced over lips.
For lips they show emotion as gates to guarded words.
As barriers to the unspoken breath.
But the eyes, the eyes, the eyes, the eyes.
Are not indulged such a protection.
Shining silently like stars.
A light adorns their gentleness.
Contorti...
Tuesday 10th February 2015 12:58 am
Also by Ged Thompson:
Neutiquam erro | Grey Children |222
This one was inspired by my mate who, unwittingly, compressed all my thoughts into one short line.
We lived in a small town and the only way out was by bus, the last bus home was at Midnight and the journey to town took a long time, hence the journey became part of the adventure. Then into our teens it was a life line to the city center gigs, clubs etc.
Years later we were speaking about the...
Monday 9th February 2015 4:47 pm
Above The Skyline
“Above the Skyline”
A Short Story
By: Alysa Hatcher
“Goodnight mom, I love you” Misty Exclaims as you can hear her mother repeating the sentence, adding in,
“Don't you stay up late again, you've been late for school two days now!”
“Okay!” She barks back slamming and locking her door. She leans against it, reflecting on her thoughts for a split second. “It’s spring break, not t...
Monday 9th February 2015 3:45 pm
Back Then
Trisha M. Hopkins
March-15-1994/June-12-2013
Dedicated to my mother Christine Barrek
I love you mom
I remember Back then
When i was a kid
The memories i hold
On everything i did
And the stories my mommy told
Tucking me into bed
Saying sweet dreams love you and don't let the bed bugs bite
Then before leaving the room
She'd kiss me on my forehead
And i'd reply with "love you and...
Monday 9th February 2015 12:54 am
Also by Trisha M Hopkins:
*Violence To Ones Own* | Following The Birds | The Day You Begin To Live | *The Day The Angels Cried* |Knowing the moment
Before the blood
that has time to seep;
before the shock of
sliced flesh;
of contracted muscle;
before the realization of
the truth of the pain to come;
there is a moment
when mortality is felt
most keenly-
all else derives from
its recovery.
...
words and foto: Tommy Carroll
Sunday 8th February 2015 5:05 pm
JB
JB!
His inner distress
encompassed me
I sat silent
unable to console
comfort
or offer solace.
He means the world to me
yet is unable to see
his beauty.
Amazingly creative
gentle, warm and kind.
My heart cries out to him
locked inside his detached mind.
Frustrated, depressed, alone
trying to relate
a world of confusion
struggles to understand
wh...
Sunday 8th February 2015 8:13 am
Also by medusa moon:
Again! |Celebrity Apathy
Driven sick of fame today
Fuelled by tacky magazines with nothing to say
Driven insane by things I see
Stuck in a hole by celebrity apathy
A-listers claim their right to riches
Turning them into divas and conceited bitches
Not enough to pose woodenly in front of a lens
But to sign contracts from the gullible to suit their ends
Celebrity today is purely cheap
La...
Saturday 7th February 2015 7:19 am
Stream of Consciousness
In the car at night I start to stroll down the dark narrow road. I look out my window and see nothing but darkness, not one street light in sight. I keep driving, I look out my window again this time I see a little girl maybe around the age of 8. I pull over to ask if she needs a ride home, she doesn’t answer. I ask her again if she needs a ride home. She turns around and I can’t help but scr...
Friday 6th February 2015 9:57 pm
Also by Jocelyn Diane:
Creature of the night |singing the same old song
Singing the same old song, We get by, we get along, Not too many quarrels, Gotta keep the peace, Sometimes wishing for a war, It would be a relief. This dull life, dogs dinner of a day, What to do to make the blues wash away This must be what any murderers are thinking, No beer for the drinking, No pot for the smoking, No religion for the ...
Friday 6th February 2015 1:37 pm
In Connemara
At my foot
who spilt Twelve Pins
northeast of Roundstone?
Everyday rainfall on sharp-peaked
metamorphic rock, sandstone
produces trickles, streams pools
wide-bottomed valleys,
too hard to be a pin-cushion.
Thursday 5th February 2015 10:23 pm
Also by Johanna Boal:
In Winter Landscape |Thursday 5th February 2015 4:52 pm
Also by Gabrielle Marie:
(untitled) |The Ride
Old sense of exhilaration
for the spirit to soar free
To be one with elements
on an aimless kind spree
No destination so to say
nothing planned as such
Tad touch of spontaneity
& escapade a sole crutch
Legs straddling untamed
not broken in yet mount
Uncertain of the outcome
and what it’ll tantamount
Timidity all but vanished
onc...
Thursday 5th February 2015 3:20 pm
By the Duck Pond
old leaves
follow
the curve
of the water
and now
that the rain
has ended
the trees bend
their branches,
heavy with the push
of the fading season,
towards the shadows growing
in the long
fingers of the grass
Thursday 5th February 2015 2:59 pm
The man in orange suit
A life wasted
no one can see it
between four walls
regret fills the empty room
he who is orange
he who can’t go anywhere
he who has lost his innocence
I see orange
rules against his words
colour is a disadvantage
orange is the one being discriminated
voices full of thirst and wanton ideas
they threaten the quietness of fighters
those who fight for r...
Wednesday 4th February 2015 9:12 pm
Also by someone:
Leaves | so Far, yet so Close |"2 AM"
2am and I am
Looking out of a window into the cold dark night
of a day that I hardly remember.
Never knowing if I am truly awake or still dreaming
never seeming to understand the way of things.
The night sings of the unknown, of voices in shadows
and thoughts never formed as they scream out truths
that no man should ever hear.
I fear those truths beyond any doubt and beyond the world I k...
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 7:38 pm
The Hourglass
We exist on the clock
a meander in the changing river
I clutch at air but it’s gone
the sand of the banks
slips through my hands
my hands
flow all over you
There is a magic I think we should birth
there is a magic I think you’d regret not knowing
and yet we look the other way
as those sands flow…
as those sands flow through…
We tussle on the floodplain
blowing leaves caught by the...
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 3:07 pm
Recovery set back
Had a bad dream last night.
Our eyes met,
from you a half-smile, then
we joshed and jostled for a while,
a chaste but tender intimacy,
dissolved into nothing
by the cold night, and
with the soft snoring beside me
came back the bitter memory
of that final cruel put down.
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 2:38 pm
Snapshot Narrative
The remains of a day
lie extinguished, discarded,
disregarded by the passers-by.
Silver-tipped echo of a mouth
unremarked upon
and common
in its everyday normality.
Evocatively comforting
in stained familiarity;
an endless capability
for rainbow possibilities
of shining eyes and laughter l...
Monday 2nd February 2015 2:40 pm
My Old Tin Bath This old tin bath of mine. Is know full of holes as I don't have the time to fill these holes. As this old tin bath as know been taken away by the rag and bone man who gave me sixpence to replace the old tin bath Where it was placed on cinder blocks (breeze blocks)were Er-in-dors lights the hot coals To keep the water warm as I lay here in my old tin bath in t...
Sunday 1st February 2015 5:10 pm
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