Open to a, “trust fall,” but unsure of the catching hand, 
Knowing that I must fall and hope for a safe place to land,
I will place my trust in you though not knowing if you’ll catch me,
But I’m falling anyway, though failing would dispatch me,
The depths of love unrequited wait to swallow me whole, 
Unless above, we’re united by your arms that catch me as I fall, 
But either way I’m falling...

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Break yr own heart..

In a rush of silence, in a rush of violence.  

Without apprehension, no comprehension.  

Cognitive dissonance, dominance, homonyms, adjectives, selective placement

Build bridges,

write memes, 

come up with schemes....

past traffic stops, run from the cops..  

Darling I love yr earrings, 

with a hint of shimmer and shine..

.. like the glassy l...

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Only a Week

The microcosm of one week's events

stand out in all the events of history

A glimspe of a few days in time

echo their sounds to the present day

a rapturous welcome of a King

as joyful souls sing their praises

The same souls who within a week

shouted Crucify Him! Crucify Him!

Was such caprice so well condensed

so human as to mood and moment

The preva...

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Touron........A tourist who unfortunately also happens to be a moron!

The “Tourons” made up a picnic
of their favourite food and drink
They brought along everything from home
except the kitchen sink

Bags bursting with goodies
enough to see them through the day
They left behind the empty packaging
for others to throw away

Taking much effort to pack everything
their stomachs desired
...

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tones of wooded sprouting leaves
sing the measure of the trees

they festive lift, and rustle, clap,
or silent sway, filled with sap

gorged and sated, a jewel they glow
the color of the sign to go

full of chlorophyll, the grass
screams of life as through stained-glass

filling up with greenhouse gas
while oxygen to us they pass

surrounding us with vital health
vegetation is eart...

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A vanishing life along these cobbled streets,       
endless grey days of August in the Balkans
At heart my Orthodox soul grieves               
for these long centuries of despair           
and for all the bodies that were left there.

Landless, we were robbed by the Turks,
our churches smashed, 
our daughters raped 
our sons taken as Janniseries
to return to us as the sultan's savages...

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All the knots untied

The doors opened wide

Unlocked everything 

Destiny is changing

Angels are chasing

With goodness and mercy

A reward for patience

Award winning situation

My time has finally come

All heaven sent gifts

Arrived right on time

With a grateful heart

I grab all my heavenly prize

Generations shall reap

Benefits from what I did sow

Now all go...

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I think
therefore I am

a declaration said
for all to understand

with that said
we must cautiously expand

turns out it's not important
that I am.
 

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I want to breathe

I want to cry

I want to live

I want to die

I want to stay out til' 7am

I want a boy that's heaven sent

I want a house

I want a car

I want to travel

But not too far

I want to laugh

I don't want to think

I want to pour myself a big fat drink

I want to dance

I want to fight

I want to see your face in morning light

I want to jump into t...

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a bad lady's fallen down,

I bend to tender succour,

lean, quite ravaged now,

she used to be a looker

rheumy eye meets mine

sees me for an old lover

I ring for an ambulance

my raincoat for a cover

beyond speech, staring,

I stroke her grimy hand,

crowd standing apart, a

motley but curious band

she tries to speak, but

uttering merely tears,

tho...

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Blooms from the barbed branches

halt the steps of the busiest 

if you are not exquisite, 

why anyone want to smell ,

When you were born the luckiest. 

No one loiter to eulogise the branch

you grown from, does it make sense 

the beautiful dark thing curated 

only to highlight your presence. 

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Lenny a three year old,was in distress,he'd swallowed a penny,

Fortunately this sort of thing doesn't happen to many.

To alleviate  the little lad's  fear,

Dad pretended to pull a penny from  Lenny's ear

In a flash the penny was grabbed and swallowed by the lad,

Who delightfully demanded,"Do it again dad !"

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Now that there are no more words to hurl,
And silence stalks the corridors of my world...
I think of all the things I could have said,
Instead of all the things I did to hurt you.
So now that all that angry fire has left,
And raindrops on the window only mirror tears I've shed,
I sit and watch blurred raindrops fall,
And where you sat, no-one sits instead.

Now that there are no more card...

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Tangled with sorrow 

Mellowed with self pity

An endless knot 

With no purpose in sight 

An no viable option

Cut the knots 

An Irreversible consequence

A state of infinity

Just know 

There is always a way 

To create a new destiny

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GRANDMA'S HOUSE

Defunct flies lay clenched

tight as fists, webs hung low

near holy statues positioned

to ensure she'd go to heaven.

I nosed my uncles' rooms

while they were out at work,

broke open dog-ends, tasted

gold strands, sweet at first

but bitter in the throat.

She sang rebellion as her sponge

slopped from bucket to floor,

argued in the bare-bricked ...

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The red dust of Mars settles on my heart,

only her will can stop the thrashing of cymbals that call me to her.

Every cascade of flaxen strength undermines the facade of purity

but the tilt of her smile will resound everpresent.

Ablazen are her cobalt eyes, I draw strength from their tranquility

she could not know the foundation she raises the pyre of my love,

the freckled shoulde...

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When you left, you took a piece of my heart

When you left, my whole world came tumbling down

I became so lost

I was left in the dark

You took with you my light 

When you left, I learned to fight

I learned to navigate this world without you by my side

I learned to be strong to no longer rely on your love

You thought I was weak,

For feeling too much

Now, you're the one ...

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The mantlepiece memorabilia

stand at attention, salute

and await marching orders 

from the commandant of memory, 

ready to parade gauzed-over 

truths, a panoply of sibilant

echoes, from times jubilant

or dreadful, like a 

mischievous missive from

all that's missing... 

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aspirated dews
cast cold , and pale
precipitate of wanton whiles
haunted
by the nape
of your neck

caught breathless
in midst-step:

off balance in static
the bright charge of greyn eyes
and a coy, knowing curl,
a shift in the ether
rousing in wake
soft-lashed and comfort-quiet trembles

replete with the distant kiss of brambles

and it feels
so
real

that it can't be as far...

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One whole year's

time emptied

Like lace leaves

From the cold trees

Skeletal wisps

You are missing 

attic tinsel 

Boxed deep and dusting

With bristles flaking

From the broken spine

So no silver lines 

Our crisp, black-branched pine.

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Who could you touch, cuddle or kiss?
The world had seen nothing like this.
Harrowing warnings everyday on TV.
Dig into your past, any regrets to see?

Victims became 'lepers' to our shame.
A witch hunt went on to pin the blame.
People became defensive or often lie.
The dirty tabloids felt the need to pry.

Victims coaxed to hide away in a shelł
To get through it alone, their living hell...

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she was sent in to wake the beast

knowing there would be consequences

the door she opened

her heart racing as to leave her chest

step by step his bed she approached

unleash the demons was her demand

a touch so light had no effect

her heart beat louder

as she attempted again

not to be disturbed

asleep he remained

with the courage she had left

a shake is what she ...

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I’ve often heard cynics deride the efforts of environmental campaigners like Greenpeace or XR for their personal hypocrisy; or for ridiculing a little teenage girl by, predominantly, white middle aged men, for drawing their attention to the issue.  “How did they travel to their protest, then?”.  “Who made their clothes?”.  “Didn’t she fly to the States?”.  Criticisms which miss the point completel...

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The world still needs container ships

to travel down the shipping highways.

but when they make these trading trips

it’s better not to try it sideways.

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You come unbidden into my life

An unwanted house-guest

Arriving without invitation

Silent tears, now so often just a breath away

Creeping in, unseen from beyond the darkness

Wrapping my shoulders with hollow grief

Inhabiting the edges of my days

Nurturing melancholy, the friend of tears

An unwelcome companion, who remains too long

Stirred by some imprint, ...

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Is this the end of the line
Have we run out of road this time
Are we still living with lies
Or are these thoughts all in my mind
My hearts forever aching
I feel there’s love inside
But it’s hard to show emotions
It’s so much easier to hide

So is this the end of the line
Or are we both just being blind
Do we just need to make time
Instead of leaving ‘us’ behind
I know the paths not ea...

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The horny-handed sons of toil

Roll up their sleeves and till the soil.

They function as a perfect foil

For lovers, hidden in the trees,

Who cool with pleasure in the breeze,

In huddles which nobody sees.

They wander later back to home,

Each one tired from their labours;

Here they will subsist as neighbours,

Friends, dispensing valued favours,

Gossips, s...

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Django

Django woke slowly as the heavy dusk closed in,

Framed within a simple deal window. The street below

Began to quieten. Stray comments wafted from the inn;

Across the way drinkers cursed the gathering, drifting snow

As he lay in semi-wakefulness. The dying sun flicked

A parting salute along the cobbled roadway, her crimson

Painting its gaudy standards in fairground red. ...

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There is a sense of silence within...

As the cacophony around continues...

I experienced a heartwrenching feeling...

And it got my brain reeling...

The fear of disconnect..

Because you haven't been able to connect...

Created a sense of vaccum...

Poured in all kinds of gloom...

What ifs took centre stage..

And my thoughts and feelings felt trapped in a cage...

Life is ...

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If I can’t take me at my best
you don’t serve me at your worst

or something like that
I can’t argue and make sense

at the same time
who does that

Brancusi 
Pollack
Mondrian 

I don’t wanna fight
Let’s make art tonight 

we need a canvas as big 
as the city

supplies we 
don’t have any 

there are too many stories 
turn off the tv

I just wanna sculpt you 
With potatoes...

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I've been writing a lot lately 
Nothing's been coming out
So what's been fine since I've not been fine
I know you have a mountain that I can't climb
I've been trying to mine mine
Maybe if you could look through the lines
You could understand I'm not lying anymore

How long until Suffocation becomes a pill
I know I'm dramatic all the time
I'm mellowing out like a fine wine
I still can't ...

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The object of my innermost desires

are neither abstract, theoretical, 

hypothetical, or borne out of delusion

No confusion exists in my thoughts at all

just Lady Desiree

At first sight, in a glint of morning light

I observed her flowing form, at which point

I think I was reborn, because my life became transformed for the better

Although I'd not had a tryst, I started

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"Oh come and see the flowers in the garden," Molly said.

He went to look and when he did she smashed him in the head;

He fell into the waiting grave as dead as dead can be

And she quickly filled it up again and went and had her tea.

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I'm on what's called an agenda bender -

I head unasked to join the action;

I'll be your ready and able attender

At any display of dissatisfaction

The media are fans of fakery

They're ready to make up stories

They'd see meat in a bakery!

(And they love to blame the Tories).

I watch the daily mainstream news

For the expected biased depiction

Of who did what - ...

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Blind in seeing

what I should

opening gravitating eyes

starship shining love

moonbeams stirs rebirth

unknown night sky

reveals less dark.

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You entered my dark side
you broke me for no reason
you all threw one spear
on my velvet soul
you made my sad sky
you put it over my head
you took my air and water
you put my heart to sleep
not to feel pain
in small pieces
you have broken me mercilessly,
and I will close my eyes
and I will forgive as always.

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I want to live in a retirement village

I want to live in a retirement village

So I can reside in an elderly community

Affordable living, disability access, a garden gnome

And endless opportunity

Oh the dream, to have a little unit 

Purpose built for practicality

Close to a park and the local shops

What wonderful amenity

I want my big event of the day

To...

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No one every says 

"It's what I've always dreamed about"

It's always about the fame and the fortune,

about the millions of fans.

Who can get the first stalker,

Or the most followers on Instagram.

Always taking everything for granted,

Always taking advantage.

No one really cares about you when their up on that stage.

So don't go chasing dreams you dont really mean,

and...

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Was there ever a level playing field,
children gambolling everywhere like lambs?
I often dream of this version of paradise 
being reclaimed.

Because now I have been urged and prodded
up my own towering, fragile-looking ladder.
apparently everbody has one,
apparently the sky's the limit.

I began afraid of the height
afraid of the indifferent elements
but thought this is how it mu...

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Grandpa,

Love is something everyone has towards you, For they, too, understand the complexity of you.

Experience is the foundation for your knowledge.

And yet, you still serve cold porridge.

Grandpa, Anger does not influence you, Ignorance does not play you.

And you do not wish for fame, As you have understood, life is a game.

Oh Grandpa, humble and intricate.

I cannot imagine...

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When will we see the clear blue sky again?

All living in a frightful fog of fear, always

remembering the long lorryloads of coffins,

avoiding and even distrusting ever familiar faces.

Where might they have been?

Who might they have been with?

What might they have touched?

Shopping become a hazardous trolleytrip,

checkout girl now avoiding eye contact,

worried that a wisp...

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That was a coincidence

Eyes gazing with innocence

You sitting on the top deck

A tide sweeping over my neck

The timings were just perfect

What more did you expect?

Always tried to be nice to you

You don’t give a shit, its true

Tried reaching out to you on social media

It is not rocket science or encyclopaedia

Holding onto your gifts since November

Your arr...

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Cluelessly age we chase,

Into youth we stumbled.

Have we had life compass,

We would figure it out.

Had it been simple,

We’d have done it.

Have it been short,

We’d reached there.

Had we known where,

We would head there.

Now that we do not,

Where do we go?

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Father's fell in the ages of stones ,

Then I was given names by companions .

In me there grew a pain none could see ,

As I watched back in the days ,

Others were bought Christmas gifts ,

While I sat back ,with burning wishes 

I recall slowly ,the path itself was a war 

With that little hope I grew, daily.

Everyday storms would sneak in the little shelter that Momma gav...

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Thoughts of failure,

Searching for some inner strength.

Spiralling, as emotions start feeling tense. 

(Why can’t anyone see she’s broken and needs someone to save her?)

As her skin grows paler,

State of mind fades frailer,

Followed by the random outburst of erratic “unexplainable” behaviour.

She never quite found her saviour; hope gone so she finally picked up t...

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I know the world,
Through and out,
Looking at the fucking door.

The hanging paper,
blue and yellow,
Left ashes on the dying daughter.

A drenched up sailor,
A timeless flower,
I stood by wood and watched it fire.

The whispered classroom,
My mind in wander,
I was given to the stranger.

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Very many sadness

Very many loss

Very many leavings

That weigh a heavy cross

If all the very manys

Had weight the weight of floss

Then all the windy blowings

Would blow away the dross.

Words and image

Thomas H Carroll esq

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Love hurts sometimes,
In the most ways.
But it also tells you something too.
In the end of anything,
No one will really be there.
The only person you really have.
Is you......

Love hurts sometimes man.
How picture perfect someone can be.
The kind of person, when you sleep they're in your dreams.
You wake up and they're right there in your reality.

Love does hurt sometimes.
Like it ...

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Have you looked at the automobiles in a parking lot lately

All the makes and models look the same

We are all the victims of conformity

And we only have ourselves to blame

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She wore sensible shoes

featured on her Plain Jane website.

Other props included a lollipop and plaits,

twenty denier stockings and a tweed skirt. 

Her pendulous breasts came to rest on her lap

and with legs crossed she looked the part,

the phone never stopped ringing,

a backlog arose.

She wore sensible shoes,

an idea picked up from a district nurse.

He...

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I don’t necessarily want to be like you

There are times when you drive me up the wall!

I thought I wanted to be friends with you

I thought that we were something that we we're not

The reason is that I want to be like you, not that I want you

I want to be able to turn my phone over when someone calls

I want to be had a look away and ignore that “ting”

I want to put myself first...

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I thought it had been a year or so since I was last on here - was astonished to find it was more like two! Apologies for my absence - life got in the way, been on a bit of a journey, you know. I hope you are all well  :)

Hartshead Moor

This motorway, my eastwards trail to freedom,

To Tyneside, York, or sunny seaside fun,

In accents broad as acres, voices calling,

And when ...

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Loving,compassionate,caring,out to please,with a mind that runs free.         Forever seeking and striving to be better...                              

always giving my ALL..this is ME!

Doting,worrysome,taking notes..

over analizing,trying to get answers..

Forever reaching out,holding near to me

anything and everyone,giving too many chances.

Trying to make a comfy home...

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Don't pressure us with your expectations,

Let us decide our own destinations,

Don't apply your social rules to our life,

Because this is our time,

Because this is our life.

Oh yeah we will make mistakes,

Hell yeah there will be some brakes, some cross lanes 

But since when did life become the safe game?

You called us soft soft,

we will prove you wrong,

Tell ...

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To the blushing bride to be,
This rite of passage you’ll not be spared.
Let your hair down, be wild and free,
Allow your tales and secrets to be bared.

Not designed for hearts too weak,
This night’s when us girls misbehave.
In our tutus, fairy wings and pink feather boas,
We’ll paint the town red and rave.

We’re like one dysfunctional family,
But we’ll bond and shout tonight.
Cocktai...

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Look beyond the eyes

White magic surprise 

Basic tools and supplies 

Transparent are lies 

Google wise woman coz sister I'm wise

At night look to the sky's 

This woman flys 

Broomstick and cauldron pointy foil hat

With every wise  woman a sidekick black cat

When light comes there's fog with this

Try not run off with this 

It's my prerogative 

....said Bobby brow...

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I'm not sure what your aim was
or if you meant just what you said
But you've sent my eyes a-squinting
left and right inside my head

You've got me fairly flummoxed
and you've furrowed my flustered brow
I'm slightly bewildered and baffled
like a flabbergasted striped cow

You've sent me on the back foot
at a loss, unstuck and unglued
At sixes and sevens and out to lunch
puzzled, unzipp...

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As football poems always do well on here...?

I thought I'd torture you with this one I wrote about the best club in England ?

On Sunderland docks 

They riveted iron & steel 

In surrounding villages 

Whirred the pulley wheel 

Graft and toil made 

The industrial North East 

Sweat and blood spilled 

All with little release 

But teaching minds resolved 

...

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I stargaze in my own room,
with thought of holding you.

The melody of songs I don't know,
make me wonder what there is to behold.
With a gentle laugh,
I stand starstruck by your words.

Like a child I stand below it all,
seeing colour that aren't letting you go,
as the stars paint a portrait of your smile,
I am caught stargazing in my own room.

And the sky turns back to white,
as t...

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The squares on the floor are forming a box

Trapping me in with no door.

I feel the water gushing in

Rising, drowning me from within 

I see no way out 

Just a voice, I hear, calling me from the other side

It grows louder and LOUDER

Until I see a small crack on the wall

Asking me to hold on 

Just for a little longer.

The diming light now grows bright...

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As I listened to Don Maclean sing American Pie,
I wondered, as he sang about those stereotypical
‘Good ole boys’, where they really that good,
when they all seemed to be drinking ‘whisky and rye’?

Well, I mused, it was an improvement on the usual 
musical fare I'd been reared on,
and wondered how the old folks would have coped
with being stuck in the parental home.

They had approved of...

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Like all the happy and sad, 
Dark and light, 
Yin and yang, 
My darkness come to me, 
Same as my sunny side. 
I have Loved the sunny more, 
Then I have liked my dark, 
But both are part of me, 
I can not hide.
Like a shadow both are drilled into me.
Where ever I go,
They will be part of me. 
Yet I have been too caught up in my dark, 
And can't seem to let it go, 
But for all the happ...

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Woman like my 

Strength enough to break through iron doors 

Woman like my 

Tenderness of a mother’s words 

Woman like my 

Every lasting love for the world 

Woman like mine

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You brought back to life the passion inside me
That burning desire to live 
That wild streak 
My heart was meant to beat 
Life is best when it's happening outside four walls 
I haven't been myself in so long
Drained of all hope and then you found me   
Now here we are 
You drive a little faster  
Music bounces through the speakers 
I stretch out in the backseat
Feeling at home
We've be...

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Past the yellow forsythia bush 
And down the hill behind it
A rickety bridge spans a brook 
Running swift with winter’s thaw

A grove of birch trees appears beyond 
Just past the precarious crossing
With barks of paper and
Bursting buds of vivid lime

Beneath the trees lie newborn grasses 
A carpet of emerald green
Painted with graceful wildflowers 
Of lavender, lemon and pink

Lilt...

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Guess you could say I feel empty without you

I don’t understand why u get mad when I get sad every time you leave. I guess you could say I’m kind of obsessed with you

I don’t mean to come off like a creepy stalker I just want to be with you always

I feel so lonely every time you leave 

 I feel so abandoned I just wanna cry 

I want to not care

I want to be happy for you

But I c...

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writing love poems

is a loveless act

never will I write again

a poem for my beloved

cause love is not in words

love is not addiction

love's not toxic, nor a drug

never will I love like that again

cause my love doesn't need a poem to cry over

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The sea fell in love

With the moon

Because of the darkness

Every night

The sea stared up

And wished for a glimmer

To dance across its waves

And make it feel

Like something precious

The moon saw this

And every night

Wished to stroke silver

Across its skin

The moon fell in love

With the sea

Because of the darkness

Cold and drifting

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There once lived a man who became so disfigured,
A freak is how he was generally considered.
His name -Joseph Merrick or as The Elephant Man.
His life became awful as his problems began.

He was known a monster and was greatly mistreated;
With jeers and with taunts he must have been greeted,
But if there is another thing about him that's known,
He was well-read and clever and not entirely ...

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The way it was
The way i see it
I don t miss the morning sun
Or those happy birds
Who always seem to singing the same song that sound like
You,v done it again you have arrived home late again
With nothing to show but the feeling of being the joke
Nothing to show but the shame and fear of what’s ahead
Oh why didn’t i go straight to bed
Why didn’t i use my head
Why didn’t i say one more i ...

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Was it that third or fourth night, Sarah
during that month we lived in Hove 
when my agent paid for us both
to move there temporary, 
that second summer we were together
and we stumbled onto that singer 
playing alone beside the coastline
at the start of dusk. 

Do you remember him asking, Sarah
pausing inbetween songs 
can either of us play an autoharp 
or a mandolin 
at the edge of ...

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The Angler

the tranquility of a lake
the power of a swollen river
the sound of a trickling stream
places you will find the angler
in search of freedom
the catch of a chub, roach or bream
a trout or even a salmon,
oh well, it costs nothing to dream

even on quiet days
when the fish don't show
on the days you haven't caught
time to be at peace with yourself
a chance to sit with your ...

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It being absolutely essential

To live our life to our potential

Drifting along, getting on by

Lazy ways to truth deny

Living this way being soul treason

Finding excuses, rhyme or reason

Looking away from where we should be

Closing our minds to our liberty

My reality took a while to sink in

Inner voice screaming, making a din

To be a poet my path to take

The safe li...

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Life is growing lonelier every day that passes

I’m just a slave to my fateful soul and it’s inevitable searches.

Spiralling on deeper down and forever tumbling aimlessly around. I can’t seem to put both these feet of mine on the forbidden ground.

If only my thoughts and my life could be safely contained once found. I would then progress and could grow to that magical higher...

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Looking back on the past

It's hard to believe 

That I made it through

Such tragedies

From youth to adulthood

Fighting battles I never should have

With family, with friends

I was betrayed

Looking at the present day

I'm glad I found a way

To shrug off the naysayers

No matter what they said

From walking to talking

Saying goodbye to their charades

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the day he was born was

a windy day in march

mama told daddy to go

to town to get the doctor

the cottage had no telephone

no running water

fronny was a neighbor

who lived over the hill

she told daddy she

would stay with mama

daddy did not have a car

had to walk to Congo road

to hitch a ride to town

when the doctor and daddy

arrived at t...

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I can’t touch the curve of a rainbow,
or use its’ colors to paint
Who counts the drops in a downpour?

Don’t be silly!

But my heart is a stubborn thing sometimes,
and it thinks: “All you have to do is try.
The first thing you must do is reach.”

So, we painted stories without end
I felt the tender hues of your curves,
and I tossed aside my umbrella
as we began to count the rain

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Silk
 
Our Post people have connected us,
Through toil and love and loss,
Carrier Pigeons, magical storks
Delivering life to waiting Mums
Telegram boys of Shakespeare plays
Connecting lovers lost,
War-winning, code breaking messages
Relics of a past,

Suddenly more important,
Suddenly at all costs,
Suddenly irreplaceable,
Through the middle of this mess
 In the middle of our chaos...

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The soft radiance of your skin wraps me in sepia sheets under which your Mecca lies.

I came to conquer and be conquered by.

Allow me to lay seige to your walls as you claw at me defenses,

Then take me by force for I am relentless.

You can condemn me for my sin of seeking your cryptic treasure,

But first gaze into my eyes and bear witness to true pleasure.

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The Thorn / Michael Kwack

It seemed a big bird had flown;

For, onto the desk of my own,

A feather was falling,

Through the air fluttering.

As if in a dream did I gaze:

A tiny bird it was!

I stretched an arm,

And the bird got on my palm.

The whole body, in bright gold,

Was the wing of this bird.

Should I hold it on my palm?

Let it go afloat in...

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It’s March the 17th and the drink is flowing

Irish eyes are smiling and their faces are glowing

The music is playing and a party we’re throwing

Happy St Patricks Day - Hey

My parents made a journey to start a new beginning

I was born in London town when the sixties were swinging

There was discrimination and racism was rife

No black’s dogs or Irish read the signs that’s li...

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During the storm, before the calm,
I heard their feet, stamping over the hills
Arriving in droves. The rebel army.
Here to overthrow a lifetime of enslavement
To buying insurance and mowing the lawn
To smiling through failure and
Changing my underwear daily.
A lifetime of good behaviour and
Doing what’s best (for whom?)
But here they come. The forgotten dreams.
The squashed and crumpled ...

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I swallowed whole,

the excess lies that spewed daily

from your mouth. 

Believing every word you said, 

Trusting it was truth. 

As time went on your mask came loose, 

Some days it totally slipped. 

Small lies became much larger, 

When challenged, you would flip.  

Your words never matched your actions

and I wondered who you were. 

The strange thing is as I ponder on...

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a poem of longing

a poem of remembrance

a poem of rage

a poem of hope

a poem to slip into your mind

a poem to never forget the story

a poem to purge the feelings

a poem of healing

do you ever get the feeling 

we’re drowning in poetry?

day by day 

inundated by poetry.

everywhere you go, 

another platform, 

another social network 

for poets...

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Your local pub got shut down
You didn't go elsewhere
The world - it started shrinking
We thought you'd disappeared

Your local got closed down
You'd never go elsewhere

Meet up at the meat raffle

Familiar faces everywhere

You went out to work
To do the shop
You sometimes went to Weatherspoons
Finished off with a kebab

You read the Spoons magazine
The "UK's most popular po...

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The door is closed what’s happening.

I don’t understand.

I can’t move

I just lay here in bed

Until they get me up wash and dress me

Give me tablets that I hate

People come in and people go out.

Some talk loudly 

Some are happy

Others seem indifferent

Some come in cleaning

Polishing and dusting

At least I assume they are people but they look more like aliens

R...

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Endora:

I can’t breath, my lungs are burning 

Everything around me is twirling.

Everything inside me squeezes eminently, grabbing away my desire to live on.

I am filled with pain, till my last bone. 

My eyes are full of blood rivers.

He is dying in the roaring silence.

Lucas:

As I opened my eyes,

I saw dazzling stars dancing in the sunset 

It was as quiet as a de...

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I find no respite here

for my broken and weary soul  

from this dark madness 

that stays always with me

just below the surface,

always churning like an unseen current

threatening to take me under. 

My resistance to the constant tug is wavering

as my strength wanes

from all this fighting

against what I am unable to escape. 

The undercurrent has always been stronger

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Maybe this year, he’ll remember:

Once a year’s not asking much

To send a bunch of flowers –

Has he even heard of such?

Even if he has, seems the florist’s

Rather too far for him to walk,

So he just sends a token;

Doesn’t even want to talk

At length to me, or even phone.

Yet he surely must have known

What I wish from him today

Is not a gift and a card, at most

...

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I don't want to be ogled,

while walking in street,

being comfortable in my own skin,

wearing a short skirt,

or a denim or a saree or a hijab.

Inside the attire it is me,

yes the same me in every dress.

I don't want to be judged,

for my choices or the opinions 

or my voice or my silence. 

in solitude, intimacy or in front of crowd. 

I don't want to be name...

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Real refuge

Sunday,14th March 2021

I shall not lose the read

but read

the reality

coupled with the honesty

life has changed a lot

but I have sought

an insight

to feel always right

there is a great transformation

with the lack of information

with no trust in divine happening

and saddening self

evil has gripped and controlled the mind

...

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He kisses your shoulder, 

then your cheek. 

His touch makes your knees weak.

How do I know? 

Before you, and a dozen more,

it was me. 

Now, I’m a faded memory, 

as you will be. 

Don’t believe me? 

I too used to laugh at the absurdity. 

He could never leave me. 

As he grows older, 

his women get younger. 

Curiously, they look like me at 23. 

How cruel fate ...

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Skinny as a rail

But inside I’m bursting

I guess every writer

Is pregnant and nursing

Two scripts on my hips

And three straggling behind

All needing rewrites

My agent whines

Is this how to be prosperous? 

Well encapsled in blubber?

Cause if another script calls

I'll probably just wear a rubber

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CORRESPONDENT: MR. CHIKE ADIMCHI ONYEGBULA

COMPILED BY: CHINWENDU CHINONYEREM EMMANUEL (MR. RAYS)

GOOD MORNING SIR, MY NAME IS MR. CHIKE ADIMCHI ONYEGBULA

CHIKE ADIMCHI: GOOD MORNING SIR. MAY WE KNOW YOU?

RAYS: Good morning, I’m Chinwendu Chinonyerem Emmanuel popularly known as Mr. Rays.

A certified writer under Association of Nigerian Authors  Abia State Chapter, a p...

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3/12/21

I understand that in the past I have put all of my faith in one man

I understand

I need you to understand that I understand

But to process my emotions I must dig down deep into my oceans

My oceans that visit me sometimes at night in my dreams and toss me around, holding my breath until I'm pushed to the shoreline

Some how I am always close enough to be pushed to the shore...

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An unbreakable bonding!

I have never seen the bonding of father and daughter like this before

A girl who is remembering her father, each passing day without any gap since he went away forever

Her father must be seeing her love and dedication from there above all

She is not able to forget his father’s love & warmth which is now nowhere

She is not able to recover from the grief of los...

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I've never felt like this before

I know we will never be together

but I wish 

the random drives 

the random calls, texts, knocks on the door, notes, hugs

all for nothing

I know you told me the same seven-letter, three-word phrase once

but I also know you took it back later because it won't ever happen

at least that's what you told me

the first time we met,

I never tho...

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No hormonal concession

Even in the time of this recession

The mole hills grew into lofty peaks

Attention they grab, attention it seeks

Those that knew wonder how did they grow

The bralette yesterday demands a full surface today

The vibrant richness is for all to rejoice and enthrall.

All this entertainment only in a year...

Corona for sure added some weight

But thirty tw...

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The dirt gets stuck in between the grooves of the metal

The paint gradually peeling off the cement floor

Fingerprints on the doors

Smudges and waterstains on the windows

Tufts of dust on the window sills too high to reach

Smiles translated to internalized insecurities

Compliments that I'm not confident enough to comprehend

Tension when I get scared of my reflection

Rays of ...

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hurting, melting, head caving
my head so broke inside
trying to hold it together
but i feel so far from fine

suffocating, shaking, heart racing
my body responds in fear
trying to reason with myself
though it doesn't help it clear

aching, receding, soul's numbing
my mind is shutting off
trying to hold onto reality
but i feel so very lost

falling, stalling, chest pounding
my soul'...

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The distraction machine, our plastic dream, sew last seam through bottom lip
Tipped off of ship, sheet bound tissue is ripped, living form clipped to fish food
Always in a bad mood, waiting on the never happens, inevitabilities stacking
Reef wrapping around your sea urchin heart, leaping off cliffs with no running start
Failure practiced as art, life pushed around in a cart, walking on rusty n...

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Years ago, I heard about a love endless

Were the times,

When love was sprouting

everywhere 

Songs was inviting to fall in love

unbelievable love stories were written

The war had over

Giving passed to unexpected coming backs.

She was an adorable woman

Worthy daughter of his dedicated professor

He was a handsome man and brilliant student,

She was sweet, lovely, ...

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Change rooms, change behaviour, change times.
Change partners, change parents, change poetic style.

The diary under my bed reveals truth but I still ebb away before your eyes
From the shadows she whispered,
Power proliferates, changing buses, changing lives,
Running away from somebody else’s husband

Profiteroles? I love profiteroles said Chaucer but I can't spell it.

Asking myself wha...

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Flow like a river

Dance like a stream

Ninety percent water 

Ten percent dreams

Tumble into an ocean which kisses many seas

Get sucked up by the sun and turned into a raindrop

which calls itself ME

Then I fall onto a garden and nourish a plant

Which becomes a succulent vegetable

That is purchased by a distant aunt

She cooks it in a tasty dish and serves it to my d...

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It is winter, I'm in hibernation,

Life in limbo, in total oblivion.

The cold seeps in, inhabits my body

Filling my every pore so completely. 

Everything is so dreary and dark,

It makes my aloneness so stark.

I see nothing but emptiness,

It swallows me in its vastness. 

I anxiously, impatiently wait for spring,

For whispers of a new beginning,

For the reassur...

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His words could become sharp as corners

And trap you there

Flailing in his grasp

They could pinch your skin

Until you cried

And cried

Throughout your shifts

They could catch your wrists and stop you

From moving on

From moving

They could lock the doors, no leaving

They could shame you and shrink you

They could come flying in from an open window,

A buzzing phon...

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In this oversized jacket 

I hold a feast of burdens.

Yet, the pockets are so large

they barely bulge.

Maybe they sink a little

under the weight of it all,

but the fabric, old and worn,

bears the burden placed upon it.

The tight, woven synthetic polyester

has held together for so long

with unrelenting strength.

Staying intact just enough

to remain a comforta...

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So I am imagined -

as Angel González said -

being reflected 

inside your brain cells.

A circuit of fibres

that sees me standing 

‘within’ your thinking:

briefly flickering.

Momentarily there 

inside you like some son 

waiting to be born 

and floating oblivious.

Warmed by your heart

perhaps lighting up 

the deep sea fishing nets

which are the mind.

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The proton energy pills aren’t working today

Little less pep in my step

But knowing you are only the next corner away

I glide through my day, sliding with happiness

Feeling old and cold

Never gets a grip

When I feel you near

A soft embrace

A whisper in my ear

Soothing calm of you

overwhelms all anxiety

you bring me back in the sweetest way

Stay wi...

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I used to range unchallenged on this hill

keeping mankind under my surveillance.

I watched as you discovered

the wonder of the wheel

and ways to traffic goods along the rivers.

You harnessed blameless power from water mills

but we became estranged.

My name is Silence.

Once I was your day-to-day companion:

the backing to your birdsong at the daybreak

and as t...

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I may not know,
Owning triumph by betrayal
But I know I emerge triumphant,
whenever I am myself and not someone else. 
I know I emerge triumphant, when I don't assassinate my principles for the triumph of my greed. 
And that I emerge triumphant, when I walk my way myself, with my wholesome faith in my creator, rather than expecting support from a mortal being.

It is largely true, that the ...

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Have you ever felt
in the morning
You feel waking up
but
Your eyes are closed
and
Suddenly all you can think of
is
There is no one to trust anymore
except
Yourself...
and
You finally transform 
into
Yourself...

For the ignorance they gave you
For the hurt they caused you
There's nothing better now
to be by
Yourself... 

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There is some magic in my office chair

It gives me rides here and there

Liberating me from the daily stress

It best knows how to take care.

Although it looks like dilapidated

Its current shape is much anticipated

Yet it offers the best of comfort,

And all my worries are emancipated.

This chair has been a hot seat in the past

This chair can narrate the tales ver...

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Where to Start?

Oh, yeah

In The Beginning

God made ham

And it was good

God said:

"I mustn't be the only thing to enjoy the ham"

So, God made man

Man said:

"what's shakin'"

Man then Turned ham

to bacon

God upset at man changing the devine creation

Though

Did admit its flavor to be quite delightful

punished man

And made Woman

Just to be Spiteful

...

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So, where I come from the rain never stops,

Drops on drops,

It props us up like a kind of identity.

You’re just like me.

When I was small I’d call out to my mum,

‘Look, look out, watch his thumb,

It’s the weather man, he makes it rain,

Look mum, he’s doing it again!

He’s making it rain’.

I was only young.

But, if you do get caught out

Or th...

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You find warmth wherever it may be 

A blanket 

Someone's arms 

Or the fire you started 

When the sun doesn't hold you

like it should 

You take 

You take the heat of strangers

and call it love 

But the moon tells you the truth 

The cold unwavering truth 

That the love isn't found in those

dark alley ways 

But then where?

Still the truth leaves you shivering...

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I wished I could talk to the stars
As I walked alone in the moonlit night,
The light of the passing by cars,
Enhanced the beauty of the sight.

I sat down on the grass by the street
To add a few pages to my old sketchbook.
But you suddenly came to meet,
Perfectly letting me off the hook.

Now I walked with you
To live the best day of my life.
Everything began anew
The moment you asked...

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"Contemplations"

Sometimes the thought of dying comes,

This sudden desire to go away from all your mess,

That have become too many that you can't wipe it off at one swipe of faith,

But the fear of my eternal home, 

Bars my thought from leaping into action,

I am not ready for judgement,

I don't know whether it will be fair on me,

I hate walking dark lonely roads. 

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What is it that attracts us to other human being so much we can’t breathe?

What is that gate to heaven and hell?

What is it that attracts me to you?

Smile.

Pain.

Mutual confusion.

Eyes in the dark, like reindeers in headlights. About to live?

What was life? What was all that fear and anger? Sweat, trembling, catching breath so hopelessly.

So hopelessly lost in you. Forever.

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Cowards follow the crowd,

Cows follow the herd.

Lion comes sudden,

and wins the crown.

Timid follows the shown way

Night repeats after day.

Bees find the flower,

and bring honey to the hive.

Spite  spreads the rumour

Virus boons an outbreak.

Terns cross the oceans,

Prudent values vision.

                                                  ...

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Sometimes I think

Who I am but always I

Feel my existence.

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I can

Still feel the

Freezing cold

Air on my cheeks

An air long since gone

Like the people I used

To greet on the streets.

And you so small

I could fit you on the

Back of my bike

Sitting under the slide

So the cold rain wouldn’t bite.

I can still feel the freezing cold air...

And I worn out by life’s daily chores

Pulling the sledge to school carrying

th...

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I love the solitude

That lock-down has given me

No need for excuses

For being reclusive

For being solitary 

And keeping myself

To myself

The weeks ahead

Fill me with dread

When masks are removed

And life is improved

Normality restored

But not for me

I just want

To stay at home

To keep my distance

From people, and

The fear they

Instill in m...

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The sound of “Violence”

I can feel it

Heavy-

Weight in

My stomach

Standing on

The ledge, again

Don’t move

Don’t slip

The poison running through

My veins, I feel it

Hurting me, helping me

Smells of

Pink plastic wig

Pretty pink perfume 

Pretty

Make me pretty

Don’t let me

Lose me

Pray to God I don’t

Lose th...

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