Gang 13

I don’t want to be in your gang

I’m heartsick at the games you play

While I am busy building a life

 You are busy taking them away.

I don’t want to be in your gang

I don’t want to maim or kill

Don’t want to sell women’s bodies

Don’t want to poison kids with pills.

I don’t want to be in your gang

So you’ve made my life a living hell

Driven me from the l...

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Words flowing from my mind
Touching people I don't know
Facing the future

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Jill was riding in the back of a taxi,but wanted a light.

She tapped the driver on the shoulder and gave him a fright.

The driver screamed ,lost control and hit a tree,

"Don't ever do that again,you scared the life out of me!"

Jill calmed him down  and said she was a nurse.

It  was his first day driving a cab after thirty years driving a hearse.

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Death is a little like this,

the way it knocks out the lights

and sends you room to room

blindly searching wardrobes

and turning out draws for

a battery, a torch

or some utility

with which to respond

to this impossible new reality.

While the unthinking part of you

keeps expecting

to flick a switch

and return this house

to some scene, years ago

when it ...

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The Eagle and the Star

Where the Holy One of God once stood

amongst places with names well understood

Where He came to bring peace and love

to make here on earth as it is above

We see an incestuous land of hate

where it now seems all too late

Injustice flourishes like rampant nettles

fuelled by those from afar who have settled

A conspiracy borne out of pity and gree...

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Put down your bow and arrow 

Retract your claws 

The prey don’t matter anymore

They give you no pause  

Let them run around  

I hear the pitter patter clacking sounds 

But I have this fresh kill laying on the ground 

It’s the tastiest piece of meat I’ve ever found 

I’ll take it raw 

I’ll take it now 

Make me roar

Make me growl 

I’m seduced by the sight 

This ...

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Little Crow Little Crow why are you following me?

Little Crow Little Crow why is your eyes made from buttons?

Little Crow Little Crow why are you so perfect?

Little Crow Little Crow what do you mean I have to remove my eyes?

Human oh human how wonderful I want you in my collection.

Human oh human for no one can have me, I see you there wanting my eyes.

Human oh human I am pe...

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As daughter

Saturday, March 31, 2018

9:35 PM

I have seen no other figure

And felt as dear to ensure

That I was so close

And it was my real choice

Your absence has created a void

And I wanted to avoid

But you were committed to the family cause

So I saw in you divinity pose

Even small things were noticed

And you enticed me

For doing it corre...

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The hands have remained closed for so long

In the shape of fists

Pointing are stiff and tired

But there are no words

Of love or hate spelled on the whitened knuckles

Just the lines of age

And the tension of muscle and sinew pulled over bone

The veins that stand out on the back of hands

Nothing hidden

Nothing revealed

Yet the outstretched arms begin to shake

Gradual...

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Eostre

Not the cross or the thorns

or the blood or the nails,

not the spear or the whip

or the rumble of stones

from the mouth of a tomb.

Not the hatred and bigotry,

the small minded hypocrisy

of this clan or that clan

whose father is biggest

or most feared or cherished.

Not the myth and the fable

espoused by blind acolytes

heaven bent on venge...

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He stood

and stared

at the socks

in his hand

She lay an arm 

accross her face

He made to sit

upon the edge

of the bed

She moved her legs

He turned to

look at her

She sighed at

thoughts of what

lay ahead

He squeezed her foot

She removed 

the heavy arm

that had hidden 

her gaze of him

He said

We will make it

through this day.

...

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The hero came

He always does

Kills the Dragon

Of dark history

We see the light

At tunnel's end

Forgiven we run

In gratitude and joy

While we can still remember

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Endcliffe Woods

Come stroll with me

in Endcliffe Woods,

A place for us

beyond the storm,

We'll warm our hearts,

wear muddy boots,

And tumble into

somewhere warm.

Please walk with me

for endless good

As I revisit

former haunts,

Let's laugh and smile

where nature's blood

Reveals a truth

that nothing daunts.

We'll treasure 

every mo...

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I can’t be what you want me to be
My appetite for you comes and goes
I try to be what you want
I try to be what you need
But sometimes you are just too much.
My knees go weak when I try to carry you on my shoulders 
I let you down becomes a familiar tune to you
I just want you to get better
You need to get better,
Please just be better.
You come in many forms but better doesn’t happen to...

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1/8 oz Penny
Lure into a dampen storm
late afternoon notes to explain
briefly play away no matter rain
here comes moment wandering here comes
my spare penny comes into the middle, so sweet
here comes, how you play
~
play the moment through, i'll explain
afternoon rain dampens lure
play the afternoon rain dampens lure
~
I'm aware, i wonder if i can a gentle move, silenced rain
exactly ...

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God knows that all men are born equal,

so that must be so, mustn't it?

God obviously could never be wrong. 

In singing that particular song

from the same old hymn sheet

we are fine examples of that simple half truth

for why have equal opportunities

to give some a leg up,

bind us to a common goal to be more equal,

if we already are so. 

God knows what HE...

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       Theresa May may

but I wouldn't hold your breath

      she probably won't 

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Image: As with all my radio programmes involving poets they are promoted in Facebook events with the logo of 5 Towns Radio and who the guest is. This year I recorded the 5 shows I would be away for and decided to use the logo with an image of Texas to depict where I was at the time of the show.

14.08.17 - 1) I thought the time was right to book next year’s flight

Before the prices got h...

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WHY?
A Good Friday Poem
by Fred Varden

Why?
Why did Jesus have to die?
Why do we feel like we have to cry
and wipe a tear from a guilty eye?
Why?

What did Jesus ever do
to deserve the punishment
that He only knew
would come His way
on a specific day
Why?

Why do we think we’re the wounded one
when all is said and all is done
How can our problems
ever compare
with those of He...

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For anyone

Briefly or lengthily

Exposed to the ravages

Of natural disasters:

Hurricanes

Floods

Fires

Eruptions

Famine

Pestilence

Disease -

Or, worse

To the ravages of War

Deliberately

Coldly

Ruthlessly inflicted

One man upon another

Upon women and children

Killing

Maiming

Laying waste all shelter

And sustenance.

Daily destruct...

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Inch by inch,

piece by piece,

kicking down my walls, 

you invade my sleep. 

1 sheep, 2 sheep,

3 sheep, 4 sheep

hiding dark secrets,

did you forget to keep? 

Long sumer nights

but has anything changed?

a sheep is a sheep,

all of you are the same.

1, 2 

3, 4

pick your favorite part,

take a little more. 

You devour what's accessible,

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Squirming your way into my heart

Took up a portion and filled it to the brim

Tears well up in my eyes at just the thought of farewell

                                                                        The years we spent together

                                                                        They flew by in a blur

                                                        ...

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Times are unfortunate; I come, I go, but when

I need you the most, I know not to hope. At what

point will I resolve this knot. I feel sorrow; I do not

know if you, at all, feel the same. Untidy mess.

Scared and silly. And nasty. What has happened here.

I never thought it would be us. Had I hoped to strongly for this, this time around.

I carry on, no one to know. No one to share, ...

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In a world where its always night

her smile became a sun shining bright

in a world in black and white

she created colors with delight

In a world where there's no reverie

she drew wings on every entity

In a world where there's no direction

she invented steps of happiness and elation

and in a world of nothingness

she made everything she needed and plus

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There’s not a doubt in my mind that I can do the impossible

So if I do without trying it’s not even an obstacle

I break down what’s complex into the simplest patterns

So every step connects like the grid of Manhattan

I know exactly where I’m going and how to get there

I know exactly where I’m growing and where I’m not aware

Not to say I know it all but I’m better than worse

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He is the poem I want to write.

The pleasure pain of struggling for words at one am.

Emotions bubbling, White water rushing over pebbled beach

He is my muse

Wind whipped vision at the waters edge standing tall

Smooth sculpted satin.

Watching the retreating tide and soothing my fears-intangible yet real.

Hot on my heels, he is the Hound of Hell

Dream vision in my restless sl...

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We Belong Here

Oh how we fly up away from the earth

A great nice happy feel good joyous rapture

Letting go of the ground's grip to ascend 

Up into the blue blue blue where God lives

Along with Mother Nature and her elements

Nothing but beauty exists here in all ways

Ferocious to sublime to indifferent it's all here

Up where the angels live higher than cloud number nine

T...

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She not really into me.

Though she wants to live with me.

She only has to sleep with me.

She’s so paranoid I’ll leave.

She still wants me for a toy that screams.

Though she’s not really into me.

She only likes me codependently.

I know she’s not really into me.

I’m just cost effectively adding to her variety.

She only drinks green herbal tea.

Goes after ...

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Letter to you,

Words of wisdom,

If I may.

Don’t fall for the irony

That my reflection

Lacks a map of my life.

My beautiful child,

Let me remind you,

That every time you smile,

Every drop of laughter

That you place in this world,

Means something,

To someone,

Somewhere,

Somehow.

Let’s remember

That people do

Amazing things each day.

Now not to di...

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I saw a miniscule black life form ascending my bathroom sink

And I refrained from turning on the tap as its progress made me think.

I even helped it on its way with a piece of handy tissue 

To reach to top of its vertical climb since its survival was at issue.

Something about its determined deed seized my rapt attention

And persuaded me to intercede - but I'm sorry to have to mentio...

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What on Earth, are Words Worth?

He is.

Clouded. Lonely. A Wanderer.

Lost in Vast Wonder.

Infinite Love seems a fickle Host.

Dancing wild, wet and naked,

Universe, nuder under moonlight.

She Is. Constant. Change.

Sacred. Natural. Mother. Untainted.

Shimmering cosmic coils cascade spirals,

Encircle stones standing still, rough and fair,

Hewn, coarse, roughly pol...

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Through destiny you were made strong 

So you could withstand

The perceived pains of transition

To not divide love

To be born in its new

Love unifies 

Love sees

Love holds our purpose

Love brings you from your knees

Love is seen in her eyes

Love resonates through her words

Love brushes the comb through the baby dolls hair

Love is in the picture she drew for ...

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my thoughts havent been clean i apologize for my actions in my heads painted a dark blue color sheme in betweens a little bit of you and a lot of me

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Nightingale piercing

Near nearer morning

Around the roses the buzzing

Among stars still twinkling

Time's jaws a lion's kiss-of-death

Tomorrow equal to yesterday

Unless dreamers cede to fog

Unless lovers would love less

Remember summer and winter

Replay their saintly favours

Etching into eternity

Each captive heart's sonnet

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I'm angry you left me.

You missed my graduation.

You weren't there for my biggest heartbreak. 

You weren't here for my most agonizing days of high school.

You left me alone to take care of Dad

and myself.

You're not here to see my years of college.

You never met the boy.

You won't be attending my wedding.

My children will never know you.

You told me you felt like a fa...

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something soft fell to the earth that night

still warm from descent, chalk on slate

the sleep abandoned heard the faint hum

the damp leather crack as it hit the island

pulsing, the colour of ripe corn and battery yolks

the smell of june drop fruit and charcoal

from its bowels crawled a single, white fawn

all teeter and stumble, dripped with mucus

from the throat of a child,...

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Catch a cheating star who’s hiding in his pocket tape;

He thought he’d be OK;

He scratched a little scar on the ball you bowl in cricket

To help its flight to swing away.

But TV cameras caught his little con tricks,

To his surprise;

But if your ancestors descend from convicts

You just can’t help but cheat and tell lies.

Catch a cheating star who’s hiding in his pocket tape;

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I had a couple drinks last night, by a couple I mean 5,

But all of them were singles and I steered well clear of wine. 

I kept myself hydrated and got to sleep by 12,

So why do I feel like this train is rolling into hell?

I’m sure that if I breathe too deeply the devil will know I’m here,

There’s no immediate or obvious threat but my bodies tense with fear. 

I’m re...

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It's not a day for the Diddy Men to weep.

Doddy's only in heaven having a sleep.

The squire's having a rest by Gods side. 

Making the angels laugh until they cried.

But something does feel missing from L14

A light gone out, a blank stage and screen.

Now the Liverpool streets, thousands line.

As the 2 horses trot slowly in perfect time.

The early rain and the hail it couldn'...

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Crowded, cozy bar

Hips bump

Accidentally on purpos

Just for the contact

The human contact

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They don't tell you that when you start to get older
How hard it will be to let go and try to get sober
That no matter what steps you take you'll never get closure

Guilt, I'm just buried in so much fucking guilt
Like I had something to do with the loss of what we built
6 weeks in and I'm already surrounded by the blood I somehow spilt

I can't move on and it's impossible to fucking let go
...

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Crowds of student protesters 
Were met with trucks of flowers

The president declared
A national sandwich discount

Your doctor recommends 
Several weekends a day

Side effects include
An exhibit at the Tate Gallery

The rebels announced
Their allegiance to open space

The stock market soared
When all shares were given away

The weatherman cried 
At the sight of spring

Y...

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Bullies get under your skin

 We can't let them win

If you see someone make fun of a friend

Make sure it comes to a end

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"So long, Marianne,"
Uttered your lips,
Was it a whisper?
Your arms clothing me,
From night's cold air,
And into your warmth,
Four,
Three,
Two,
One,
Then we both let go.

"So long, Marianne,"
She was Cohen's muse,
In a lonely poem,
A melody,
And a lullaby,
Of a love he dreamed,
Cried,
Laughed,
Cried,
Laughed,
About it again.

"So long, Marianne,"
Echoed in the wind,
Throu...

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She has a mind of stormy clouds

With every lesson, she grew young

Until she'd finally experienced enough 

She didn't let her expectations fall

But the world trapped her in buckets

So they could taste her young

And she felt the world so small,

They put around her the caution tape

For surely being left alone,

Using the lack of light to thrive

She learnt to feel alive

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well-developed defense mechanisms
aren't easily dismantled

and tools of survival
readily become weapons to crush--

as blood is compelled to surge
only to choke

the animal is driven to seek life
in spite of its limb.

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chair in a corner
naughty or not
facing in or away
from whom only
which way seen
been ever 'tween

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A lonely man sits on a rock

On a lonely mountain

By the singing water.

His lonely mind

Thinks lonely thoughts

That fill the air

With ideas unheard.

A lone bird flies

And hears his lonely thoughts

It soars to the rock

And the man is lonely no more.

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A lone bird stands

Where a lonely man once thoug...

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I don’t hate you I simply thank you

Thank you for showing me who I don’t want to be

I’ve drowned in my own soul because I thought I needed you to survive

Buried down my thoughts and feelings not realizing I wasn’t living

I was a child who cried and cried and kept crying until it hurt so badly

And when it hurt I didn’t understand why

Why turned into anger and anger turned int...

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Its 6:00 am

I couldn't find my mom to wake me up

I am succumbed to this feeling

Its 7:30 am

where is my bournvita ??

Has it been drink by my childhood??

Its 8:30 am

why my school uniform  is not visible to me??

Am I a college guy now??

its 10:00am

For  having breakfast i m looking for a shop

Am I a hosteller now??

Its 2:00...

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My mum,

My mum of eleven years,

Has gone - never to walk the earth again.

The past years - what have I lost?

Not much…only:

A motherly figure to go to when in harm,

Someone to praise me when I’m succeeding,

Someone to hold me tight when I’m in need,

Someone to teach me right from wrong,

Someone to kiss me when I’m sleeping,

Someone to make me laugh,

Someone to tick...

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Trust Me

(My thoughts on joining the LDR club when I started uni... But he moved with me in the end)

I am terrified.
My skin is a semi-permanent tsunami above
These Earth-quaking bones.
I am terrified of being alone. 
Not only as the Sun sets and then rises again,
But the empty, aching hollow that
Fills my chest when
I think about you gone.
When I say I am scared to be alon...

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Freedom

They were the last days,

the days of the british kingdom,

only because of some great Indian people,

today we have got FREEDOM.

They were the days ,

the days of the cruel and dishonest  rulers,

who asked us to pay the higher taxes,

they were a big problem

handed over to our motherland,

but we kind ones

had granted them with great honours,

but this wa...

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          THE   CORNER…….

Hopewood Street / Scotland Road;  A junction to remember

Especially if you plied there for work, which I did one November.

The year was 61, I’d reached eighteen the day before

Now old enough to go on that stand, I hurried there for sure.

It had been the topic of the older lads whose work-ethic was a page

Casual work was ‘the norm’ of the day; t...

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You want to let it go
then let her go
she has her life
and it is quite clearly without you
...........for the time being

Are you frightened of becoming
like your mother?
Hated by the daughter?
Never speaking or giving her the time of day?

Then, I wish you well my dear
Fear is your teacher
and worry your god

I fear for you
and worry for your future
as you do not yet know
what i...

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If I saw you at the Faire,

I wouldn’t take things so seriously.

The crowds would part,

so I could see only you.

Only then could I heal the wounds

that someone else discarded.

I am fragile.

But you can sense that.

And you approach me slowly,

like a silkworm.

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Its okay if you don't want to fall again

Love was hurtful

So you said again

Maybe its true

I feel your pain

How will I know

When I always abstain

Make me experience love

My heart cries

Make me feel love

My soul dies

Alone I have been

Looking like a Wanderer

Reality have seen

Not like a Slumberer

Searching for the perfect heart

To lost in love with

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Mulling over a week,

nostalgia is at its peak,

with revived hope bleak,

that you will come and speak.

I perpetuate time cloud nine,

when days were like rise and shine,

that epoch was of our combine,

everyday was like wine and dine.

Groping you here and there,

now I know you are everywhere,

in my glare and my prayer,

you are my unwonted scare,

in this air and my ...

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With time to myself I feel as if the fog has lifted. Away from you out of sight and mind I can’t recall your face at all. 
I know how I felt while around you. I couldn’t help but smile you’re beautiful but not meant for me. 
I shared myself with you 
I thought you and I were similar. 
You told me what you wanted I so badly craved for it to be real. 
I feel the trust is broken now questions sw...

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I sat down to reflect on a history of thy own

I am old now and weep to a song, a sad story is mine with all those that now have gone.

I saw a vision in my mind a beautiful woman singing at the sink, she has the voice of angel and I cannot speak, I listen intently to every word it’s a little dainty about a bird, she whispers soft and perfectly in tune, it fills every inch of this tiny little ...

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The thick ice on the pond is dimpled on its face:

The same snow that coated the field

Had landed on the frozen pool to yield

To ice its fragile beauty and feather grace

As dents

Body gone, only the skeleton of the snow is left:

The same snow that covered all around

Has lost its substance to the earthy mound

But dull white bones still haunt Spring's heft

As wraiths

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river weaving sound-waves scintillate
emerald tide lapping ripples roll
spectral mother of pearl piers laminate over
earthen pebbles veiled in petrol gauze
limpid lamps glint
the shellac grey
to a murmuring waxen gold..

limbal ring sun cheeky snowdrops lick
refuse boats hum
hushing engines cello
glass bottles topple
slivers crack slivers click
nit-wit birds hammer icy bubble ravines
...

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{He Tried To Destroy Her}

He tried to destroy her by his sneaky little secrets and little lies that he kept hidden deep down until that dark day she found out about all of his hidden dark secrets that's when her world came unglued 

because she gave her all to this man and then return only thing she ever got was just his lies and dishonesty and secrets and his cheating ways t...

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Follow yourself  follow your path

where is it?

under your feet just follow it

it, what’s it?

the path is it 

it is the path I’m waking on it 

why yes you are you’re walking the path yes that’s it .

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Beachwards we race – work’s done, day over, coffee made

and travel-mugs filled.  Today’s sky is clear, sunset’s

not over water; beach-dusk, though, is beautiful.

And tonight, we sit chatting nothing until, by

degrees, topics turn to honest thought, true feeling

and we discover our love once more.  We talk dark

into a chip-escapade, race home – this is life.

The true religion. ...

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I'm here

I'm gone

I don't know where to be

It's me

I'm here

how far down can you push me

I'm gone

hate me, ignore me, wrap me around you

You can't even decide where you want me to be

I'll be where you are

waiting

to see what you'll do

I'm here

feed me, breathe me, bring me back

you're gone.

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Never seeing the light

Shown

We wither and decay

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At last I can see the light

As daytime slowly turns into night

Knowing bedtime is nearly here

When 3 hours have felt like a year

First comes dinner which was a chore

Chicken nuggets and chips galore!

But because I know all her little tricks

I threw on some extra carrot sticks…!

“I’m still hungry mum don’t you know?

…I could just fit in some haribo?”

“You can...

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 I decline you Tennant 

For you are nothing but a messily  pheasant.

How dare you assume you have a right to a home.

You will always be cold and forever alone.

You voted us in and here we shall stay

Ruining your life forever this way.

I do not blink when our team sin,

We built these homes not to be lived in.

Wow.. I didn't relise you would be so offended  that we have thous...

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I think that you are quite unique,

From ear to ear, then down to feet

Sat atop your mind you speak,

Sometimes funny, sometimes sweet

Lots of people seem the same,

They live their lives and play their games

Now and then they use their brains

But not too often, ain't that insane?

You are you and that's what matters

So ignore, the chitter chatter

Small minded t...

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Do not attempt to undermine my intelligence as you will only serve to belittle yourself. You do you and I'll do me .I know this will be easier for me as I live real every day .I'm just me ,always and that's how it should be. I do however, wish you the best of luck as I can only imagine how difficult putting on a show can be not to mention how utterly exhausting,after all acting requires both skill...

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Home again each month like a stranger,

he has three days’ turnaround

between trips for you to wash

his gear – which leaves you

barely two when, on his final day,

you’d rinse off his luck.

So let him mooch with mates,

while you heat the copper and soak

his long johns, socks and ganseys

in that soup of frothing water,

teasing fibres matted

with blood, scales, sp...

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The day when I saw you first 

Never could I imagine I found my love at last 

Being filled with happiness and being alive 

Still I never forget that day 

When your feelings for me finally came to light

We sat on a corner of a pub

So easy but yet so tough

To meet your lips on mine leaving everything else behind

Did you say some words 

That makes my heart beat fast

...

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Away, I dream of last thoughts and feelings

That he introduced to me

Not even my first love had a clear understanding

Past experiences lift my senses

Trying to leave it to an old palate

He is foreign

My heart is open an awaiting

To let me love and be accepting

Blood is chilled

As he

Brings roses to my cheeks

Only fearing the past

Seeing it return in related situ...

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No one can fool me

said the man

who saw right

through me

as I tried

to make him

look foolish.

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when the task of creating Wiganers

appeared on the agenda for God

I like to think he made us unique

strangely peculiar rather than odd

market traders, miners, mill workers

witty, welcoming and worldly wise

with a distinctive diet consisting of

apple crumble... and humble pies

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It shattered across the floor

I knew this was coming, it was no surprise

I couldn’t take it anymore

Oh, the fire in his eyes

His hand against my neck

His breath against my cheek

I pulled away hoping not to wreck

Yet his presence felt so meek

The way he talked to me

The way he spat on the ground

The way he grabbed my knee;

It had me all turned around

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Poetry in unusual places

Yarn-bombing red as a spaniel

Line of poetry clutters in clusters

Faeries and Diddymen, aliens and witches

We transcend to rainbows when we die

Cold coffee cup clocks stuck at half-past six

The witch her face disfigured

Better methinks burnt at stake.

Lost in the past watching swallows flying north in spring

Swallows in blue s...

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Bird beneath the midnight sky
As on my lonely couch I lie,
I hear thee singing in the dark,
Why sing not I?

No star-gleams meet thy wakeful eye;
No fond mate answers to thy cry;
No other voice, through all the dark,
Makes sweet reply.

Yet never sky-lark soaring high
Where sun-lit clouds rejoicing lie,
Sang as thou singest in the dark,
Not mute as I!

O lone, sweet spirit! tell me ...

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Did my parents leave me on a hillside to die?

By chance a caring mother followed her instincts and found me alive

Sent to a hospital with nothing but a basket and marks on my wrist from where I had been bound

A national appeal to find my parents came to no avail

Instead a kind family gave me a chance of a new life

Already struck by tragedy, I was their second chance

At the age of...

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I'll let my chicken wrap just rest 

here as I 

hear about your week.

Its peanut-curry crunch

silenced by your over-sized watch as

it tick tick ticks

against your silky, soft wrist.

I'll let myself forget what day it is

but remember how your 

jaw click click clicks

with every chew.

Servers might see it on my face.

Strangers maybe will, too.

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Hello there Mr. Sunshine,
Thank you for showing me your bright smile,
Are you going to travel with me in every mile?
Will you continue to follow me 'til the end of 
time?

As i open my eyes i can feel your presence,
You're so simple, but do you know your essence?
You are the one who lights the day as the world
awakens,
Thank you for existing, my heart you have stolen...

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Foolishness

 
Irrational deranged and ridiculous 

Carrying-on with a fool trick of imprudence 

More to bring joy rather than sadness 

A crazy balderdash of daftness  

With discreet acts of constant madness.

absurd poppycock behavior comes fatuousness pleasures 

Reasonable insanity of countless measures  

Even an idiot had sort through all the dangers 

No one c...

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Resurrected 

Glancing from window

Into soft white snow wrapping

Signs of spring?

Long yellow catkins from twisted hazel

Where remains of distressed thoughts hung

Decaying yet diminishing as troubles often do

Frozen pond where jelly spawn from

Spent dead frogs was now protected

Ready to emerge as warmth re-appeared.

Tender plants pausing 

Enclosi...

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This is my shout out

for you

coz you tried to threw me out

out of your heart

 out of your mind 

but remember I am not kind

you tried to ruin my life?

ask me sorry

I  will give you teddy

I wasn't your tom,dick, harry

​​​​​​I was your larry 

but now not less than adversary

I wasn't a psychopath

I was sociopath

I was your midas touch 

but now I w...

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A heart that’s pure,

Love that is gentle,

What great magnitude and depth you possess,

It’s an honor to know you, 

Seeing you grow ?

Viewing life through your eyes ?

HUMBLE as they come

The caterpillar has transformed ?

Why are you afraid to face yourself?

Your form is ELEGANT

Your wings are UPLIFTING 

Your design is UNIQUE 

Creation is ELECTR...

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You gave up and left your comfort zone because of reasons.
But should it be that way?
Should it be with your thoughts?
Or should it be your feelings?
At any rate, should you consider one reason?
You fly and wearing this strong face
And with a brave heart
But would it be that way you wanted?
I never thought

But I know I made the right decision because
It is you are the reason.

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Snow Day

Snow day.
Glow day.
Every way you go day.

Untrod sheets say
"Clean, new day."

Morning light.
Crisp. Bright.
Picks out crystals perfect made.

Play day.
No-school day.
Friends day.

Deep, sheet, untouched by human boot
Or bright-yellow dog-stain marks.

As Earth was once.
Clean, new.
Paper white
Before the ability to write.

There's nothing new under t...

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to be taken with a pinch of white powder

It's twenty one months since the vote for autonomy
 unentangling ourselves from the E. U. economy
free, at last, new trade deals to seek.
plus saving one third of a billion each week
a brilliant future together we face
on a twenty per cent, meagre, industrial base

Cheap goods come and go on Korean made shipping
Footsie one hundred's sky hig...

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Shall I compare you to a human friend?

You are more loyal and affectionate.

Rough words do often need amend

And sometimes friendship comes too late

Or may for others you forsake.

Moreover some expect too much

Which when you fail can friendship break.

Your love I know is never such.

Friends often can betray your trust

Revealing them as indiscreet

But you and I stand tr...

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While I slept I saw you fall

All I could think about is why it happened

Nothing can separate our love

We are one soul; we are blood

While I slept my eyes became open

Oh! it was just a dream

A dream it will never be

There's a light in you and it's still shining bright

We have a journey that's still far

Together we shall complete it

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Believe it or not but you are a culprit 

Believe it or not but you are dead

All the words you speak, the thoughts you have

It's all what they fed 

The collar is around your neck 

The rein is in their hands 

No matter how far you wanna go 

You do what they say instead.

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Do I dare face such a challenge
Should I fall or still keep my balance
You are the thin line between peace and 
violence
But you still are the golden silence
How do we understand the power we 
acquire
How do we give in to our darkest desires
How to we become honesty when our hearts are liars
I’m not your lover I’m your fire
Understand the darkness in this soul
Understand the mystery kno...

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it’s extraordinary to be human with feelings. usually it’s brave to have a voice. now in this world it’s unheard of to be heard. to actually hear each other is just not what done. but it would save lives to be this way. to reach out and give your hand or take one that needs yours is braver than you think. i choose to stand alone and that’s selfish of me. today i was different. today i was brave. a...

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elder-god carrion and a world dreamt
eclipsed by the worms of our ilk 
burrowed and tunnelled 
syphoned and sustained
by the blood and brains of greater things 

formless, unwitting children of Ymir
separated from the nothing by the everything
wringing meaning from a crackling void
and order from the blank slate of chaos.

set into motion, our nature
of tides eating tides
the old fall...

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He sticks the blinkers on

and blindfold, counts out the sorrows

of no one he knows.

Puts them in a drawer,

locked with a careless key,

kicking doors shut

on notions of equality.

His side of the seesaw hangs heavy,

unbalanced, biased towards

the full and sated belly.

Wallet and tongue keep close company.

Sees with one eye only one vision:

singular,

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I am a weaver of words. Make no mistake I said words, not wisdom.
I am a coniessuer of simulies, and synonyms.
My shelves are lined with glass beakers and tubes containing syllables, but I am no alchemist.
Make no mistake, though, I am a poet.
I will reach for the sharpest edges of your mind, and whether I come home with lifelong scars or your lifelong adoration - I don't mind.
No, I don't be...

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Set the paper boat

afloat upon the river

to find divine hands

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The Selling Price

To the casting couch, the Hollywood director told you to go.
To the role proposed that made you a star, why didn't you JUST SAY NO?

To the couch you went with open eyes, why? This is my guess.
You were afraid the very next applicant would enthusiastically say yes.

You say you had non-consensual sex and the relationship lasted for years.

You face the world now, calli...

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Ode to the Living Dead

To every smiling face we raise a glass.

These demons troubling us about our past.

These lawmakers of some forgotten world,

Tell us false stories we've already heard.

We rest their memory on this sill tonight.

Aware they are of tolling on our minds.

Our sipping cup's a hyssop dipped in wine.

And we will not go out before the chime.

The fire of ...

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You’ve been on my mind a lot, you’ve stained my lips with desire, my passion burns so bright like a room filled with fire, I can’t pretend I’m over you, head over heels at best, I’m holding on to the thought of us and maybe this is all just a test..

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A memory of a small but unforgettable part of London.

Walking down to Camden Lock

with colour and fizz all around

on a warm August day:

narrow boats, top hats and silk scarves,

old pubs, rent boys, spruikers;

The Regent's dark canal,

people-watchers. Music like jewels.

Such is the raucous silence

of loneliness.

Chris Hubbard

2018

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I’m not just a small part of your body

I’m more than what you know

I’m a double-edged sword

I’m not cruel, I’m merciful

I’m not mean, I’m honest

I hold the power you can’t control

I translate your thoughts into words

I paint with it to create your world

Shall it be a world of lies and deceptions

Or a world of honesty and truthfulness

Only your words will set the cours...

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I remeber the day i saw you

I fell in love at first sight

Something that i don't believe before

You are not my ideal man

Not the man i dreamt of

You fell in love

To a friend so close to me

I decided to befriend you 

And just to torment my heart

Through the years

I tried to be beside you

I was Like your shadow

Watching over you

You told me count...

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Like a plain white paper
scattered on the floor
My days goes on and on just like that
Wasting my time to be exact

Still waiting for something
Something that I've never known
Mind filled with thoughts
Wait... what thoughts?

Staring vacantly into space
Ohh how time flies..
I feel so good and  nice
To spend all my time being myself

I feel satisfied...
I feel empty ...
Why do I fee...

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Tender age shows the drawn out shadows 

 conceals her soft youth.

Shakey grounds paved the roads throughout

her construction. Choices decided burdens

this tiny frame. But shoulders broaden by battle

scars.

Vacant,souless,haunting silhouettes gazes 

dipped crimson lines lilac pale

lips into the days facade with mortuary beauty.

Adaptation is key I'm survival. Silence is t...

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today was a bad day

the sun didn't shine

and work wasn't great.

today was a bad day

but it didn't kill you

it barely touched you

it was a spring shower not a monsoon 

today was a bad day

but you can keep going

it won't slow you down

or cripple you

it wont make your whole body hurt

at the thought of living another second 

today was a bad day

bring...

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my anxiety is a burden I can no longer carry

bones and muscles this weak were not designed for this 

I was not born for this 

like the ocean, my anxiety washes over me 

soaking each tissue of my being 

forever drowning without being able to come up for air

I am not defined by my mental health

or by the tremurs or leaks that escape from my body 

but often sometimes...

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Where do I stand in your life

is it beside you 

or is it out of sight

if I walk away

will you be the one 

to come get me that day 

I might be leaving and won’t come back 

so don’t realize you want me 

when my heart has already turned black 

I wish it was easy to say 

but am I where I stand 

like the other day? 

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He is sad, he is hurting

No one ever told him he was wrong. 

Spoilt and arrogant, 

He had become. 

Behaviour always accepted. 

A love for himself, 

he always expected perfection, 

Nothing else.

It’s not his fault. He knew something was wrong, 

an angel he searched for, an angel he won. 

Another win, at his feet, treated her with deceit. 

Ignored...

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You hurt me again 

There is no tone of surprise in my voice any more, why should there be? 

You hurt me time and time again and over and over I forgive - I make some weak, half hearted excuse for you

If I forgive you the hurt goes away quicker, until next time when I forget how bad the pain was and disappointment comes crashing down in waves like an avalanche of emotion. I cry and you tel...

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The Shooter

Must be quite a kick, that feeling

Walking the corridors with power,

Knowing you have that which others don’t

Holding it close, nestling, kneeling

Taking aim as others cower

Doing that which others won’t

Taking life, paying back, being

For once the number one,

The big man, standing proud and tall

The one who sends the toughest fleeing.

Alone, just ...

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Hello everyone, please bare wit me. This is my first time ever starting a blog and also writing a book. I wrote a book and it is for sale at Amazon.com and here is the link. Thank you for reading this. A friend of mine she told me that I have a way with words, so I decided to write something poetic for everyone to read. I hope that you all enjoy the book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BCTV4...

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i dont really understand why i'm still taking up for you when you've hurt me in the worst ways... am i in love with you? or am i just use to you? why the fuck can't i get over you?! i know you don't see me the way i see you anymore..but i stood by you, not seeing eye to eye.. stood by while you got high. i see it in your eyes that i'm not by your side. but without your love how can i possibly surv...

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The air becomes dense
Now I can feel it coming
All of a sudden I am aware of my everything
Eyes wide with impending horror
Ears seeking the source of it
A strong wind blows
The leaves tremble
Insects take cover to their abodes
Small animals retreat beneath
The moon once bright and milky
slowly goes from glossy to bleak
And asks the passing clouds
to take her under their wing
Alone a...

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Love is war

It's the internal conflict between the perfection of the connection and the reality of the chance of ill intentions and  deception.

It's all about trusting that person with your love and trusting that they won't drop your heart.

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I get it…Yet

I get the internet

Yet

here I am trawling through stuff

Not writing enough

Pasting, wasting and chasing flat dreams and holograms,

Missing the meaning and depth

Of a moment

Of an movement

Of living.

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Sacred days dead 
Investin n the 1s that Unappreciated so usefulness is used when its n a uniform
Expect 2 see the Money that they paid 2 see the Movie but so many n the seats that the miles add minus 
Clippers at the Palace 
Itsa chance they might choke
We make choices playin chess & may the chips fall 4u 
Copin wit the City Dont come wita cape
Analyze artillery from Aviator angles
Apples...

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Come back come back

My heart's under attack

Come soon, come soon

I want you to come soon

My abc's I do forget

Your little nose I want to pet

I do not know if its your body

I do not know if you're somebody's

Your playful ways I like them so

I do not want to be like snow

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As my chest gets tight, my eyes get wet

As I feel like I want to die, my mind says that's a good idea

All I think about is you, so I feel like a bird with a broken wing

I long for your touch and crave for your lips

But I feel only air, for you are not near

I reach for you blindly thinking you'll reach back but

I feel nothing

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All the goodbyes Ive never said

They haunt me, like some unfinished business. 

Im always wondering who is away from me, that is not supposed to be. 

Who did I cast away after prides were hurt?

Where are those who hesitantly walked away, while they looked back and noticed I wasnt following?

Oh, who are you kidding?

You give way too many chances. 

Face it.

With some, you...

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i know we have our differences
but we sort them out
no distance taken
no time taken
can give me another one like you.

i am not perfect
but with you i am complete
you fill the gaps
and make me a wrap.

however angry you get
no matter what your mindset
no one can ever take your place 
only i run the race.

i may tend to wonder off
but you give me a push
i always seem to forget
bu...

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7 words in a sentence.

Five to sooth, two are ambiguous. The mind automatically takes the jab which does not exist. 

I wonder as I write this, at half past four on a Thursday morning coming down on speed, whether there is anything perfect. 

Or maybe that question makes the concept impossible. 

Whether just by the mere questioning of the integrity of a perfect thing it become...

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What a pleasurable pain

to be loved by someone who only wants to use you 

someone who only wants your body and not your mind 

accepting the fact that you are wanted, only for vanity and not for soul purpose. 

You are but an object, 

a hole for someone to dump their sadness into. 

Nothing more, nothing less. 

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EVACUATING HEREFORD

From Fir Tree Lane junction and the Straight Mile

Near where World War Two hand grenades were found,

They shut roads and placed a cordon around

So they could make things safe army style;

People were moved out of homes for a while

Taking all their pets, every cat and hound;

As warning cones were put down on the ground,

A real nuisance there was hardl...

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"Opened that door"


One night, i was cruising in my porsche, with my music blaring, When i noticed this fine girl stood staring.

She was so beautiful, real sexy too,
She approached my ride, right on cue. She knocked on my window and asked for a ride, I smiled at her and happily replied,

Girl you're the one i dream about,
You're the one i cant do without,
I never met anyone like you be...

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I’m ready for spring.

Winter’s clinging on

with a dead man’s grip,

throwing a last defiant freeze at us.

But I’m ready for spring.

The roads and fields were spectacular,

swathed in their pristine white mantle,

and the picture postcard blizzard

was spectacularly beautiful

looking through my window.

But I’ve had enough now.

There’s an expectation thrusting through,

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In pale moonlight,

She bathes.

Letting ocean waves,

Crach and break against her.

With each forceful hit,

A piece of her,

Strippped away.

Her demons, the sharks, have come to play.

Each bite.

Each cut,

Pierced her skin,

Until there was no blood left to bleed.

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a week ago 

a professor asked me 

what i wanted to do with my life, 

the quesiton caught me wrong-footed; 

two decades ago

learning to walk, 

a decade ago 

learning my body, 

5 years ago 

discovering love,

3 years ago,

accepting my body

a month ago,

accepting who i am 

and now? 

thrust into the unknown,

an oblivion that teases me;

infinite doors t...

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I hold him close and lean into his whisper.

His thoughts like the place where heart and soul collide,

I feel his heart, beneath the wall he puts up sometimes.

And in the quiet,

the best kind of quiet,

I listen for the wanderings of his mind,

should they ever pass my door.

For when the sun rises the next day,

I fear he’ll find the brighter things than me.

I worr...

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The Indian princess owns the clouds

she opens and closes them 

with the blink of her eyes

She casts a veil

of billowing clouds in the sky

as she slumbers thru winter

Come spring the princess awakes

and begins to reveal the secret of her home

A magnificent mountain named Rainer

the strong counselor of her land

The mountain commands respect

with i...

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Just collateral...collateral
As the gods wage out war, to appease their gluttony 
I’d shed tears if I thought they make a difference 
I beg for compassion to be shown but when I scream my voice falls silent 
Wishing it was merely a nightmare not my reality 
Am just another background extra on bbc 
While your share your false pity and sympathy to subdue your conscious, sending up empty prayer...

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He wants something soft
He wants to see the horizon in her blue eyes
Not the dark struggle in mine
It is the familiar look of his mother
The dark hood casting long shadows over big mama's heavy eyelids
He wants to be free from his black
To be just a man
Holding a woman
He is a deserter
But, who can blame the baby?
His every moment is so grave
He never asked to be Atlas
He just wanted t...

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It is a song of Hope I sing.

A person from the future I have yet to meet,

everyone I know is there in the past 

or here in the present along side me.

You and I, we are on the eternal breaking

of the wave of time,

as far into the future as any being has ever been.

Yes, the unknown brings anxiety,

but find comfort in this certainty:

the future is uncertainty,

and that b...

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I had a stroke on the 9th November 2017.  The staff at Derby Hospital were amazing and saved my life. For this I am eternally grateful and for the help from OTs and Physios. The Stroke Association have also been amazingly supportive. The devastating results of the stroke have changed my life so much. I am left disabled at just 46 years old and my life will have to change as I am unable to res...

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After putting in a shift at St Mary’s hospital

This medical student was on a mighty mission

At Paddington station he boarded the Oxford train

He was determined to show the world and assert his position

With the help of his friends Chris Brasher and Chataway

They toed the line to set the pace on the Iffley Road track

History and destiny was in their hands and at their feet

The ...

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Wished for a life I’ve always imagined

Granted a life I’ve always wanted

Forgive me for the life which I’ve merely wasted

How can I remember, what can I remember

Remember a life I’ve never lived?

Thankful of the life which I’ve never been

Treasures that it held but I’ve never seen

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If there was a can of coffee I could peel open
from the side to look into, and if behind the
razor curl of that tin door I made I saw the pallid pink
side of a beating heart smoothing against
silvered walls, and if I could place it back on
the shelf then with the Bustelo and the
Folgers, bleeding through its labels and onto
the floor and pick up the next one and the
next one until I found ...

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Approach with caution 

When you insist on pushing my button 

Your behaviour is drastic

Uncharacteristic 

I won’t settle for failure 

This is not in my nature 

Your voice is loud but I can scream louder 

Carry on as you were and it’s you that will shudder 

Effect my emotions 

You won’t see my submission

You’ll wake the bitch inside 

I won’t go and hide

I’ll fight...

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He handed me his spare umbrella

Felt uncomfortably wrong in my hand

Felt uncomfortably wrong for my eyes seeing

Him walking next to me

Strange friend

Why is this dude with me?

Why is this dude with me without mutuality in want?

Sep'rate

So why is he with me?

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The fearless fighter scared of none,
Stood in front of me since young,
Made of indignant rage and fear,
What would i be without him near.

The boisterous guy that speaks for me,
Demands respect so ruthlessly,
Strength from fearless fighter's strength,
Without him who would i be.

The money man he comes and gos,
He buys respect for me from crows,
But when he leaves they circulate,
With...

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Tobacco spills into her stained lap

She squirms tightly on the plastic chair

In the church hall this dull November evening.

Where to pick up the pieces from? What to do with them?

The serenity prayer, she cannot remember the story from the chair.

It gets better they say, day-by-day-by-day.

Outside no-one shakes and fears like she

Inside a kind of mad jollity grips her

And g...

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today I lost everything I’ve ever written though I do remember most there are so many I don’t and so many half finished pieces I’ll never get to finish. I’m feeling so destroyed, I never showed anyone any of it and now it’s going to be lost and never heard by another soul. I wanted so bad to open my journal to people and now it’s gone, i hate to be an attention seeker but I have no one to talk to ...

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With all the hope and envy in the world, I saw the most in your eyes.

You loved life but yet hated the outcome.

You loved brown eyes but yet hated what you saw in mine.

You loved me but yet hated how much you did.

You loved to hope but hated to envy -

Yet you did.

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Lines I wrote while very upset:

Im worthless to you and rich to everyone else. Why?

Can you hear me screaming? My lungs are bleeding. 

I’m not even in the water but I’m drowning. 

We’re going no where. Ever. It’s a standstill. 

Why do I keep trying? 

You got got me fucked up. I know my worth but apparently you don’t. Are you fucking stupid?

I...

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FLAMING AGONY

Burning in flames,

The dailys and weeklys

With the cries of the innocents,

The tellys simulcasting the stamped extremities,

Of a soul, we call Women.

Crushed beneath the savage desires of the lousy men.

A girl, who once aimed of the skies,

How could have she known,

 Jeopardy awaited on her way back home.

That she’ll be served as a bait to the lust,

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raw war

I live evil I

doom mood

I stab bats I

emit time

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Do you think I want to be this way?

Do you think I like being alone?

Do you think I don’t want to be loved?

Who would want this?

Trapped in their own mind with no sign

no hint

no help in escaping

Long past has the water risen above my head

drowning out the laughter from outside

this aquarium that holds me

Please don’t tap the glass

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He made our argument physical again tonight

Every time I think it's the last

Leaving him isn't an option

Plus, where would I go?

My heart can't take the cruel words or pain

Eventually, I'll learn how to cope.

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